The laws that invented race also created a regime policing Black women’s sexuality

Evidence

But this system, which grew partly out of colonial anxiety about interracial sex, did and still does more than maintain racial categories. The laws that invented race also created a regime intent on policing Black women’s sexuality and controlling Black women’s bodies. Many generations later, we are still living with its legacy of entangled racial injustice and sexual violence. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 204

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• XREF: connects to: Laws against sex and vice resurged strongly in late nineteenth-century America — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3323