The Story of Hudgins v. Wrights: Multiracialism and the Social Construction of Race
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2008
Editor(s)
Rachel F. Moran & Devon W. Carbado
ISBN
9781599410012
Publisher
Foundation Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
In the case of Hudgins v. Wrights, the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia delivered an important lesson on the non-genetic nature of race—the manner in which race is socially determined by both physical and non-physical proxies. Hudgins involved the legal battle of three women—a grandmother, a mother, and a granddaughter—who struggled to prove that they were free citizens, not slaves, by offering evidence to refute a white slaveowner’s claim that they descended from an enslaved black woman instead of a free American Indian woman.
Recommended Citation
Angela Onwuachi-Willig,
The Story of Hudgins v. Wrights: Multiracialism and the Social Construction of Race
,
in
Race Law Stories
(Rachel F. Moran & Devon W. Carbado ed.,
2008).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2916
