Race, Marriage, and Sovereignty in the New World Order

Legal Transplants and the Frontiers of Legal Knowledge

“…47 Jane Dailey shows how the ideology of race superiority in the U.S. was a pillar of the prohibition against interracial marriages well after World War II, and how U.S. resistance to international human rights norms on the ground of sovereignty was related to it. 48 Steven Wilf elucidates nineteenth century and early twentieth century legal primitivism and its contribution to the legitimization of patterns of domination over indigenous peoples.…”