Contents // ¦ ¦ ? // Introduction 3 // Part I The History of “Miscegenation” and the Legal Construction of Race // LAWS AND DECISIONS // The Virginia “Act to Preserve Racial Integrity” of 1924 23 // “Marriage and Divorce” in 1913 Arizona 24 // Pace v. State of Alabama, 1883 24 // Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 1967 26 // ESSAYS // What Is a White Man? 37 Charles W. Chesnutt // The Beginnings of Miscegenation of the Whites and Blacks 42 Carter G. Woodson // Interracial Marriage and the Law 54 William D. Zabel // Representing Miscegenation Law 61 Eva Saks // Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia 81 A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.,