Tag: marriage

  • My name is Sally Jacobs and I am a reporter doing a project for WGBH radio in Boston on interracial marriage in connection with the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the practice. I am looking for couples in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) who have a…

  • The Newest Jews? Understanding Jewish American and Asian American Marriages Contemporary Jewry July 2012, Volume 32, Issue 2 pages 135-166 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-012-9078-y Helen K. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Leavitt, Research Associate Department of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington This paper investigates how racial, ethnic and religious identities…

  • Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, “Daughters of the Trade” uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.

  • Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms The New York Times 2014-12-31 Justin Wolfers, Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. also: Professor of Economics and Public Policy University of Michigan If the Census Bureau proceeds with a recently released plan, then in a few years’ time,…

  • Multiracial Marriage on the Rise The Brookings Institution The Avenue: Rethinking Metropoliitian America 2014-12-18 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program One consequence of America’s diversity explosion is a rise in multiracial marriages. In 1960, before immigration levels to the United States started to rise, multiracial marriages constituted only 0.4 percent of all U.S.…

  • Race, Marriage, and the Law of Freedom: Alabama and Virginia 1860s-1960s Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 70, Issue 2: Symposium on the Law of Freedom, Part I: Freedom: Personal Liberty and Private Law (1994) pages 371-437 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University INTRODUCTION In 1966, one hundred years after Congress passed…

  • Drawing from exhaustive research in the Netherlands, Europe and the Americas, Altena offers illuminating new insights into mixed-marriage families as they were depicted in the arts and in news media; and how the families themselves in turn reacted to, and influenced those images. The author focuses on well-documented individuals and shows how they gained a…

  • Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey The University of Pennsylvania Provost presents The Inaugural Provost’s Lecture on Diversity University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Room 110 2013-11-13, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • Making it Last: A Couple Who See Race Clearly The New York Times 2013-08-23 Erika Allen Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Christopher and Laura Castoro met when she asked him to tutor her in German. They didn’t realize they were of different race…

  • Is Interracial Marriage Still Scandalous? Room For Debate The New York Times 2013-06-13 Kevin Noble Maillard, Professor of Law Syracuse University Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles Heidi W. Durrow, Author and Co-Founder Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival Diane Farr, Actress and Writer Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of…