The legacy of Loving / John DeWitt Gregory and Joanna L. Grossman -- Telling stories of love, sex, and race / Jason A. Gillmer -- Loving in Indian territory : tribal miscegenation law in historical perspective / Carla D. Pratt -- American mestizo : Filipinos and antimiscegenation laws in California / Leti Volpp -- Perez v. Sharp and the limits of Loving / Robin A. Lenhardt -- The multiracial epiphany, or how to erase an interracial past / Kevin Noble Maillard -- Love at the margins : the racialization of sex and the sexualization of race / Camille A. Nelson -- The crime of loving : Loving, Lawrence, and beyond / I. Bennett Capers -- What's Loving got to do with it? : law shaping experience and experience shaping law / Renée M. Landers -- Fear of a "brown" planet / Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman -- Black pluralism in post-Loving America / Taunya Lovell Banks -- Political blackness : a sociopolitical construction / Angelique Davis -- Finding a Loving home / Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-Onwuachi -- Racially inadmissible wives / Rose Cuison Villazor -- The military and interracial marriage / Nancy K. Ota -- Loving across the miles : binational same-sex marriages and the Supreme Court / Victor C. Romero -- Black v. gay : centering LBGT people of color in civil marriage debates / Adele M. Morrison -- Beyond the Loving analogy : the independent logic of same-sex marriage / Rachel F. Moran -- The end of marriage / Tucker B. Culbertson

"In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships. Marriage continues to be the sole measure of commitment, mixed relationships continue to be rare, and same-sex marriage is legal in only seven out of fifty states. Most discussion of Loving celebrates the dismantling of marital racial discrimination. This book, however, takes a more critical approach to ask how Loving has influenced the 'loving' of America. How far have we come since then, and what effect did the case have on individual lives"--Provided by publisher