{"id":54678,"date":"2017-07-30T17:49:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T17:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54678"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T17:49:37","slug":"fact-and-fiction-in-mixed-race-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54678","title":{"rendered":"Fact and Fiction in Mixed-Race Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fact and Fiction in Mixed-Race Marriages<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Talking Apes: How natural selection reprogrammed the brain for language<\/a>
\nPsychology Today<\/a>
\n2017-07-30<\/p>\n

David Ludden Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychology
\nGeorgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cVirginia is for lovers<\/a>\u201d may be the state\u2019s travel slogan, but 50 years ago one couple was banished from the state for committing the crime <\/a>of getting married. Richard Loving, a man of European descent, had fallen in love<\/a> with Mildred Jeter, a woman of African and Native American origins. They wanted to marry, but Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws<\/a> forbade mixed-race marriages. So they crossed the Potomac<\/a> and said their vows in the nation\u2019s capital<\/a>, which had no such restrictions.<\/p>\n

When they returned home, Mr. and Mrs. Loving were arrested. Instead of going to prison, the couple agreed to leave the state permanently. With the help of the ACLU<\/a>, the Lovings sued the Commonwealth of Virginia<\/a>. However, it wasn\u2019t until 1967 that the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional<\/a>. At that time, 16 states still had such laws on the books.<\/p>\n

Since then, the number of mixed-race marriages has increased steadily. In 1970, just three years after the Supreme Court decision, surveys showed there were about 900,000 mixed-race couples living in the United. Three decades later, studies showed a five-fold increase to 4.9 million. These numbers include not just black-white marriages but rather all biracial couplings\u2014any mixture of black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American\u2014and regardless of whether the pair is legally married or cohabiting.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Virginia now has a higher percentage of black-white marriages than any other state. So maybe now Virginia really is for lovers after all…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biracial partners face some special challenges, but mostly they struggle with the same problems as other couples. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394],"tags":[27389,70,3532,27391,27390],"class_list":["post-54678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-david-ludden","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-psychology-today","tag-talking-apes","tag-talking-apes-how-natural-selection-reprogrammed-the-brain-for-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54678","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=54678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54679,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54678\/revisions\/54679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}