All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law

All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law

California Law Review Circuit
Volume 4 (November 2013)
pages 179-186

D. Wendy Greene, Professor of Law
Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama

Professor Wendy Greene highlights the continued importance of analyzing interracial relationships in the framework of the law in her review of Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig’s book, According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family. Professor Greene comments that given the Supreme Court’s continued interest in cases involving marital and racial equality, a study of the legal history of interracial marriage in America, like that done by Professor Onwuachi-Willig, is both relevant and essential for understanding fundamental rights jurisprudence.

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