Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Black and White




Although mixed-race mates have increased, the U.S. still shows unlikeness between African American male and African American female endogamy statistics. Back in the 1990’s reports that 17.6% of African American marriages occur with White American. African American men are 2.5 times more likely to be married to white American women than African American women to white American men. In the 2006, 286,000 African American male to white American female and 117,000 white American male to African American female marriages were recorded. According to the Education Resources Information Center, White female/Black male couples are also more prone to divorce than White male/Black female couples in 2007, 4.6% of married African Americans were married to a white American partner, and 0.4% of married white Americans were married to an African Americans.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

intro

Interracial romance has been a point of difficulty in America since the first English settlers found colonies in the 17th century. Back in 1664 Maryland banned interracial marriage just to questions over whether the offspring of a black slave and a white person would be considered a free person or property. In following years, many other states like Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina started a law called “anti miscegenation laws” which banned interracial marriage. In 1691 Virginia outlawed interracial couples and labeled their children as “that abominable mixture and spurious issue.” When slavery was canceled by the 13th Amendment in 1865, many southern states started what were known as the “Black Codes.” In addition to stripping freed slaves of most of their just got rights, these codes continued the ban of marriage between whites and blacks. This was based on the commonly held notion that Africans and Native Americans as well were common races and interbreeding would violate the white gene pool. When Congress tried to override the “Black Codes” by issuing a series of laws from 1866 to 1875 the Supreme Court hold most of the law void and upheld the southern states right to ban interracial marriage.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Interracial Marriage the meaning and why i choose the topic

Interracial marriage or relationships happen when two people from different racial groups marry and often have multiracial children. Another term is exogamy which means the custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit. For example the first case of interracial marriage is Loving v. Virginia.
I choose this topic for my project because I don’t really know much about interracial marriage or relationships. It would be interesting and I will also learn from it to. Picking this topic will help me understand what people had to go thought when interracial relationships weren’t allowed. What was the struggle like, how did they get treated and what was the effect on children coming from that family.