Reclaiming heritage in modern AmericaPosted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, United States on 2016-11-10 20:08Z by Steven |
Reclaiming heritage in modern America
Somona State Star
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
2016-11-08
Jahred Nunes, Staff Writer
Virginia natives Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were sentenced to a year in state prison after being married in the spring of 1958.
The couple was arrested in their bedroom, after police received an anonymous tip that the Lovings may be an interracial couple. Their marriage violated the state’s anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as “white” and people classified as “colored.”
After taking their case to the Supreme Court in 1967, Loving v. Virginia became a landmark civil rights decision invalidating all laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
Nearly 50 years later, the Pew Research Center found that multiracial Americans are one of the fastest growing communities in America, growing at three times the rate as the American population as a whole.
However, with the lines between race and culture being blurred in the modern era, where does multiculturalism fit in?…
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