{"id":50289,"date":"2016-11-27T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50289"},"modified":"2016-11-27T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T16:35:14","slug":"for-interracial-couples-growing-acceptance-with-some-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50289","title":{"rendered":"For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/26\/fashion\/weddings\/for-interracial-couples-growing-acceptance-with-some-exceptions.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brookeleafoster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brooke Lea Foster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a new mother living on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upper_West_Side\" target=\"_blank\">Upper West Side of Manhattan<\/a> in 2010, I often forgot that my infant son, Harper, didn\u2019t look like me. As I pushed him around the neighborhood, I thought of him as the perfect brown baby, soft-skinned and tulip-lipped, with a full head of black hair, even if it was the opposite of my blond waves and fair skin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s adorable. What nationality is his mother?\u201d a middle-aged white woman asked me outside Barnes &amp; Noble on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broadway_(Manhattan)\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> one day, mistaking me for a nanny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am his mother,\u201d I told her. \u201cHis daddy is Filipino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, good for you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sentiment that mixed-race couples hear all too frequently, as interracial marriages have become increasingly common in the United States since 1967, when the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a> struck down laws banning such unions. The story of the couple whose relationship led to the court ruling is chronicled in the movie, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_(2016_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Loving<\/a>,\u201d now in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, 12 percent of all new marriages were interracial, the Pew Research Center reported. According to a 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/06\/12\/interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew report on intermarriage<\/a>, 37 percent of Americans agreed that having more people marrying different races was a good thing for society, up from 24 percent only four years earlier; 9 percent thought it was a bad thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/26\/fashion\/weddings\/for-interracial-couples-growing-acceptance-with-some-exceptions.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions The New York Times 2016-11-26 Brooke Lea Foster When I was a new mother living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2010, I often forgot that my infant son, Harper, didn\u2019t look like me. As I pushed him around the neighborhood, I thought of him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[25562,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-50289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brooke-lea-foster","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50290,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50289\/revisions\/50290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}