ABSTRACT
Examining the works of five post-soul writers—African Americans too young to have participated themselves in the Civil Rights Movement—this chapter considers how concerns about mixed-race inheritance, Blackness, history, and the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision (along with the decline of other anti-miscegenation laws), coalesce in the last third of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Works by Mat Johnson, Angela Nissel, Emily Raboteau, Danzy Senna, and Rebecca Walker expose how far we have come as a nation in terms of interracial relationships and mixed heritage, and how far we still have to go.
