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How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans
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- Craig, Ashley R. (Author)
- Smithers, Gregory (Author)
Title
How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans
Abstract
Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act belongs to a settler colonial tradition extending back to the early 1600s. Some white Virginians, though, weren’t satisfied. They worried about a loophole in the law that would dilute the purity of white “blood.” Leading white supremacists had wanted the Racial Integrity Act to solidify Virginia’s black-white racial binary. To do so, they called for the Act to erase the presence of Native people. Some used the Act to do just this, engaging in a form of “bureaucratic genocide” to re-cast Native people as Black, rendering them less visible in the historical record.
Publication
TIME
Date
2024-03-20
Language
English
Accessed
20/03/2024, 14:23
Call Number
D
Rights
Indigenous Matters
Extra
United States of America
Citation
Craig, A. R., & Smithers, G. (2024, March 20). How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans. TIME. https://time.com/6952928/virginia-racial-integrity-act-history/
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