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Themes: Laws & Mores

Who Coined the Term "Miscegenation"?
Article
via Brooklyn Historical Society
PHOTOS: Science Fiction & Multiraciality event
Article
From Octavia Butler to Harry Potter to new visionary fiction
PHOTOS: Muslim And...? Portraits of American Muslims
Article
Photos and report back from Muslim And...? event
Created Equal Screening and Discussion: The Loving Story
Article
The Loving Story screening with CUNY Law Professor, Victor Goode, and co-producer Patricia Romeu
PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You?
Article
A discussion about mixed heritage
Interfaith LGBTQ Couples
Article
Marriage equality achieved, now the challenge is finding support for interfaith ceremonies (via The New York Times)
Suzanne Lacy's Stoop Talk: Gender, Labor, and Gentrification
Article
Report back from Between the Door and the Street
Photos from Loving Day 2013
Article
Photos from Loving Day 2013 in New York City
An Interracial Family in 1962
Article
Brooklyn Historical Society's Photo of the Week
Photos of Rationalizing Race
Article
The history of racial and ethnic categories
U.S. Census: Rationalizing Race
Exhibit
How and why racial categories change over time
U.S. Census: Rationalizing Race
Article
How do you describe your Race on the U.S. Census?
Slavery's Legacy
Article
Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
2011 American Community Survey released
Article
Detailed social, economic, demographic, and housing data from the U.S. Census Bureau
Committed: Marriage in America
Article
Podcast about the changing history of marriage in the United States
Jonathan Blazon
Oral History

"I’m revealing to myself that it still hurts that Chinese people think of me as being less Chinese -- of not being Chinese, actually. I shouldn’t say 'less.' They just don’t even consider me as being Chinese. And I hate it. I really do."

LOVING DAY Celebration NYC
Article
Celebrate Loving v. Virginia ~ Free ~ Multicultural ~ Family Friendly ~ Waterfront
Interracial Brooklyn
Exhibit

A sociologist looks at the increasing percentage of marriages in the US, New York City, and Brooklyn that are interracial and describes how social science can provide explanations for -and raise new questions about- the world we live in.

 

The Loving Story screening with filmmaker Nancy Buirski
Article
"It's not so much me and Richard, it's the principle, it's the law - I don't think it's right." - Mildred Loving
Watch & Discuss the groundbreaking 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Article
"You think of yourself as a colored man, I think of myself as a man." - John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

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