Interracial marriage
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Interracial marriage between Black and White Americans does not make up a very large percentage of the total number of marriages in the United States. But the impact of the these marriages on society--as well as on the participants and, especially, their children--is much greater than numbers might suggest. The level of racism in America--which is largely responsible for the small number of Black-White marriages in the first place--has declined considerably in recent decades. But racism persists at outrageous levels and the children of interracial marriages will suffer from it no less than the children of African-American families. A discussion of the effects of interracial marriage on children will follow a brief description of the state of interracial marriage in America; including a summary of forces that worked against it in the past, the demographics of such marriages today, and social factors that affect and are affected by interracial marriage. Marriages between Blacks and Whites were forbidden in all or some portions of the United States as late as 1967. In addition to legal restrictions there were also those who claimed that their biases could be backed up with religious prohibitions against such unions. Mills cites, for example, the frequent claim that in the Bible (at Numbers 12:1) Moses was spoken against because he had married an Ethiopian woman. The fact that Moses' critics were later punished with leprosy was, Mills says, "never added" when the subjec
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mijn found that the difference was due largely to a shift from the predominance of ascriptive characteristics, such as class background or race, in mate selection to a new preeminence for achieved characteristics such as educational levels. He discovered, for example, that education levels exceed class background as factors in selection and that matching of educational levels has been increasing steadily as well. Heaton and Albrecht, examining the male-female discrepancies in interracial marriage found that "the most striking pattern is that spouses in interracial marriages have higher status than do spouses of the same race in homogamous marriages" (210). In previous decades the higher levels of income and educational attainment among these groups, when considered in the light of the exchange model of marriage, showed that Black men probably exchanged relatively high levels of income and educational achievement for the perceived higher social status of White women. And, on the other hand, Black women needed to have higher economic and social standing in order to exchange them for the perceived superiority of White men's status. Since race was regarded as a negative characteristic, "Blacks who married Whites would need to sub
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