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Interracial Families Rocquemore
Interracial Families Rocquemore
Rights America
Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Loren
Henderson
Interracial Families
Loving v. Virginia, (1967), was a
landmark civil rights case in
In 1967 the
which the United States
Supreme court
Supreme Court, by a 9-0 vote,
in Loving v. declared Virginia's anti-
Virginia miscegenation statute, the
declared that "Racial Integrity Act of 1924",
laws against unconstitutional, thereby
interracial overturning Pace v. Alabama
marriage were (1883) and ending all race-based
illegal. legal restrictions on marriage in
the United States.
Post-racial America?
• Whites accept
interracial marriage in
general, but oppose it
within their families
Border Patrolling
• Is a form of racial White women marrying black men
report being verbally harassed, socially
hostility. ostracized, and/or excommunicated
from family and friendship networks.
• The unarticulated
White males who marry black women
boundaries experience less hostility, mostly
between blacks and expressions of curiosity, confusion, or
whites that become concern.
noticeable to an
interracial couple. Blacks report attacks against their racial
identity, loyalty to the group (race), and
self-worth.
Angry Black Women
• Racial literacy is
a set of encourage the ability to
includes an analysis of the
ways that racism is
practices that: translate (interpret) racial mediated by class
codes and racialized inequalities, gender
practices hierarchies, and
heteronormativity.
What about the children?
• Today’s mixed race youth
do not have angst about
their identity.
• They develop identities
based on their social
environs and how they
are linked to social,
material, cultural,
economic and
institutional forces.