Books and Movies about Love for Loving Day
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Happy Loving Day from the Sprague Library! We’re dedicated to embracing and celebrating diversity here at Montclair State. This selection of books and movies focuses on celebrating Loving Day. Loving Day celebrates the overturning of laws against interracial marriage in the US in 1967. Celebrate by adding these books and movies featuring interracial romances to your summer reading and watching lists.
“Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton’s liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt’s wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey’s decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.”
“On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and his fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. Later, the newlyweds were arrested, tried and convicted of the felony crime of miscegenation. Two young ACLU lawyers took on the Lovings case, fully aware of the challenges posed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor on June 12, 1967 and resulted in sixteen states being ordered to overturn their bans on interracial marriage.”
Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
“Spanning three continents and the course of a century, The Map of Love traces a transcendent cross-cultural love affair back to its dramatic precursor generations earlier. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly one hundred years before.”
The Love Wife by Gish Jen
“The arrival of a “cousin” from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve as a nanny, throws the household of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American, his WASP wife Blondie, and their three children into turmoil.”