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Sponsored by The History Project (Boston, MA), Miscegenations is a new media project that seeks to raise awareness, educate, and inspire activism about historical relationships between anti-miscegenation and anti-same sex marriage laws in the United States.
The American Heritage dictionary defines miscegenation as "cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races." In post-civil war U.S. history, anti-miscegenation laws were created by individual states primarily to prohibit black and white, women and men from marrying, though the effects of these laws have been far reaching.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow same sex marriages. In 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld a 1913 law barring same sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts, if they were/are from states with laws already prohibiting their marriage. This law was originally intended to bar interracial, heterosexual couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state prohibited their marriage, though it now operates to prevent Mitt Romney's personal nightmare of Massachusetts becoming the "Las Vegas of same sex marriage."
In Miscegenations, real-life interracial, same sex couple Lea Robinson and Elizabeth Whitney present a multimediated account of the social repercussions of relationships that cross boundaries of race, sexuality, and gender identity. Using historical research as well as their personal experiences, they narrate these cultural transgressions that not only expose the questionable foundations of "American Family Values," they also promise to recreate them entirely.
The American Heritage dictionary defines miscegenation as "cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races." In post-civil war U.S. history, anti-miscegenation laws were created by individual states primarily to prohibit black and white, women and men from marrying, though the effects of these laws have been far reaching.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow same sex marriages. In 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld a 1913 law barring same sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts, if they were/are from states with laws already prohibiting their marriage. This law was originally intended to bar interracial, heterosexual couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state prohibited their marriage, though it now operates to prevent Mitt Romney's personal nightmare of Massachusetts becoming the "Las Vegas of same sex marriage."
In Miscegenations, real-life interracial, same sex couple Lea Robinson and Elizabeth Whitney present a multimediated account of the social repercussions of relationships that cross boundaries of race, sexuality, and gender identity. Using historical research as well as their personal experiences, they narrate these cultural transgressions that not only expose the questionable foundations of "American Family Values," they also promise to recreate them entirely.
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