Anti-miscegenation sentiment arose out of racist, social values and was then implemented into the courts to sanction, criminalize, and marginalize those engaging in and supportive of interracial relationships, protecting an anti-miscegenation social hegemony. Essentially, law became a tool to justify and protect racist, anti-miscegenation values during a time when those social values were no longer accepted by all Americans as inherently correct. A pseudo-jurisprudence shared by racist legal professionals and anti-miscegenation social values allowed anti-miscegenation law to persist. It is...