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A friend of mine in the JAG recently picked up this esoteric volume, from an ancient time known as the 1960s, in a faraway galaxy called “America.”

Here’s a page:

BTW the information about Georgia is wrong: Like every other state of the Old Confederacy, Georgia prohibited interracial marriage at the time of Loving v. Virginia (1967).

These laws, which were still in force in more than a third of the United States when I was a child and she was a child in that kingdom by the sea, applied variously depending on the jurisdiction to “Negroes,” “mulattos,” “Orientals,” “Hindus,” Mongolians,” “American Indians,” “Malays,” and so forth (you can find the same categories in restrictive racial covenants, that banned the sales of real estate to the wrong sorts of potential neighbors), but not, that I’ve seen anyway, to Mexicans, Spanish, Puerto Ricans, Cubans etc.

While it’s true there were very few Hispanics/Latinos in the US in the mid-20th century compared to today, they (we) were still much more numerous at that time than all the other banned groups listed above, other than black people. (The entire Asian American population of the United States in 1950 was less than one half of one percent, i.e., less than a quarter of the Hispanic population). Why the Yellow Peril should have been canonized in this way, while the purveyors of marijuana, zoot suits, and desperados who didn’t need any stinking badges were not similarly treated, is an interesting question.

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