In their ongoing campaign against marriage, feminists are now trying to brand the institution of marriage as racist.
But starting in the 1960s and then accelerating in the 1970s, elite opinion began to shift. In 1965, when the, the decision that held state laws denying contraceptives to people violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, and all reverence for marriage was gone.
Letiecq, who draws “upon feminist theory and intersectional frameworks,” wants to tell a story where “White European settlers” used “mass colonial brutality” to “violently reconfigure sex, gender, sexuality, kin relations, and reproduction among” the previously peaceful nonbinary indigenous populations of North America.
By identifying the “overarching framework for interrogation of how structural oppression and unequal power relations operate to reproduce the systematic advantaging of and the marginalization of other families,” Letiecq hopes to “develop new family theories and new imaginations that challenge Whiteness, White supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the unfettered promotion WHNFs.”
If European colonists wanted to “channel the flow of resources between the generations of White male property owners to maintain their dominion, power, and control over others,” as Letiecq claims they did, there is no better institution that does that than polygamy. Polygamy is the ideal family structure for rich and powerful men who want to preserve their family wealth for future generations.
Between 1862 and 1887, Congress passed not one, not two, not three, but four laws specifically targeting the practice of polygamy by Mormons, who were very much white, by the way. The last of these laws, the Edmunds-Tucker Act, not only banned the LDS Church entirely but confiscated all of its property. Each of these laws was contested all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Mormons lost every time.
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