https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_(2016_film)

Stephen Bau

Dec 19, 2018·1 min read

Loving is a 2016 British-American biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

Stephen Bau

Designer, writer, educator, social architect, founder, Builders Collective, Leading with Design. https://stephenbau.com

Until I read this book, however, I did not realize how extensively the Nazis sought to borrow laws from the United States. To my surprise, it seems like they paid less attention to Jim Crow, and focused more on anti-immigration and anti-miscegenation (anti-interracial marriage) laws. As a reader, it was depressing to find out that my country was the go-to case study for Nazi Germany, and that the latter sent teams of attorneys to analyze American local and state laws which existed in congruence with Nazi principles regarding race.

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