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A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America; What Comes Naturally traces the origins; spread; and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex; most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country; in the West; the North; and the Midwest. Beginning in the Reconstruction era; when the term miscegenation first was coined; she traces the creation of a racial hierarchy that bolstered white supremacy and banned the marriage of Whites to Chinese; Japanese; Filipinos; and American Indians as well as the marriage of Whites to Blacks. She ends not simply with the landmark 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia; in which the Supreme Court finally struck down miscegenation laws throughout the country; but looks at the implications of ideas of colorblindness that replaced them. What Comes Naturally is both accessible to the general reader and informative to the specialist; a rare feat for an original work of history based on archival research.