Interracial Marriage Analysis

In the United States of America, the media has become the breeding grounds of extreme hypersensitivity to race. The media has caused a lot of racial tension in many ways, including spicing up stories that weren’t actually racist. Sometimes people spread the wrong facts through media so the actual story becomes distorted. Sometimes, books will use harsh words to create a long lasting effect on the reader. Authors will use their choice of words to strike a certain emotion in the reader to create a point, but some readers get so caught up in the word they lose the meaning. Today’s media has created extreme hypersensitivity to race in many ways including distorted stories and distorted understandings.

Interracial marriage has traditionally been viewed as a means of expressing a hatred of oneself, of escaping something in one’s culture or self that one no longer wants to identify with. Jacki Thompson Rand describes the outcome of this phenomenon in an essay on her experience as the child of an interracial marriage. She explains how her mother married a white man in an effort to make herself more white, and therefore more legitimate: “My mother 's marriage to my father was a racial love

In his article “The End of White America?” Hua Hsu attempts to convince the reader that demographic shifts, immigration and the increase of interracial marriages have resulted in the “beiging” of America. He supports this view by citing Census Bureau data and marketing research used by advertising conglomerates to create ads designed to appeal to the majority

Interracial families are more prevalent today than they have even been and the number of interracial families are growing each year as people are becoming more accepting of people of other races and rejecting the past. However, interracial families still report dealing with issues such as discrimination. Not everyone has yet to accept and welcome the idea of an interracial family in their own family and neighborhoods. Parents and children who are a part of interracial families must deal with multiple biases, how people act towards them, and developing a healthy identity in a world that is not always ready to accept them as they are.

The trends in publicly celebrating and affirming the racial identities of multiracial individual’s shows hope for the “loosening of racial boundaries” (91). But what does that mean for children of mixed-race unions who have their own children? As Lee and Bean stated in this article, the continued shifting of the color line throughout history, with who is considered white and who is not, it is likely that “boundaries may continue to stretch to include newer groups” (88). For children of mixed-race unions who have their own children, especially Asians and Latinos, that means that they could be considered white instead of nonwhite. I believe that with our growing diversity as a nation, due to increasing intermarriage between different groups, that there will be an expansion the definition of who is considered “white” but that it will also create a more rigid boundary for those who are black. This would definitely be the case with the

In his article, “Children of Interracial Parents Face Special Difficulties”, Frank A. Jones argues that biracial children, especially black males, face difficulties due to their parents raising them based on white parenting standards without considering the way modern society will treat them. Jones describes how biracial children think they are different, which builds up the fear of getting judged and leads to racism. Frank emphasizes the need of not just love and affection in raising a child or more specifically a biracial child but “guidance, discipline, self-perception, and survival perspective” and also the importance of education being a must and not an option. Biracial

Mastro, D. (2015). Why the Medias Role in Issues of Race and Ethnicity Should be in the Spotlight. Journal of Social Issues, 71(1), 1-16. doi:10.1111/josi.12093

Whether it manifests itself in microaggressive images a la the recent Dove and Pepsi commercials that caused a stir on social media causing the brands to apologize for their lack of sensitivity or in crude portrayals of marginalized groups seen in old Disney animations that elicit feelings ranging from shock and anger to nostalgia racism is undoubtedly visible in the media. Although media has seen drastic changes over the years as a result of changes in culture racist stereotypes are unfortunately still present. People of color in America have become all too familiar with negative imagery that only serves to put them in a subordinate and inferior role or in some cases leave them out completely. As of late both young people of color and white

The film Our Family Wedding illustrated the diversity among and between families. The film depicted the views of different generations within a family and how an interracial marriage affected them differently. The film explores new contemporary marriage trends and challenges traditional family roles and marriage trends. This paper will explore different demographic trends as it relates to the social constructs of class, race, and gender, survey the recent trends and changes towards contemporary marriage, and study the changes in the family relationships within the film. Conclusively, this film analysis will use textbook concepts and examples in the movie to establish a framework for the diverse family system and the changing marriage.

Just over 50 years ago the United States Supreme Court overturned and nationalized the ruling on interracial marriage. Since then there has been an ever increasing amount of interracial marriages, along with interracial relationships. Since then there also has been a greater increase in the public being exposed to mass media. There have been numerous studies on interracial relationships, with variables like wars, legal matters, immigration and even military occupation. We will examine in this paper if media exposure has an impact on cross-cultural or interracial relationship in relation to immigration to the United States. I reason that there is a correlation between public opinion views and legal status of immigration to views on interracial relationships. We see a recent example of this with Barack Obama’s successful campaign for the presidency of the United States, Halle Berry’s Oscar win in 2002, multiracial and multinational collaborations and successes in music, and a visible rise in ethnically ambiguous models and celebrities (Washington, 2012).

The two articles used were “Understanding the Occurrence of Interracial Marriage in the United States through Differential Assimilation” (Lewis, Ford- Robinson, 2010) and “Marital Dissolution among Interracial Couples” (Zhang, Van Hook, 2009). The first article “Understanding the Occurrence of Interracial Marriage in the United States through Differential Assimilation”, spoke about the unprecedented changes that our society is going though in the 21st century.

In 1967, the decision made by the Loving v. Virginia court case established that interracial relationships would be legal, and all laws against it would be invalidated (Loving v. Virginia). Afterwards, many biracial children were born, which created a new problem for those with different cultural backgrounds. People of different cultures face many troubling issues separate from the problems most White Americans have to face. The most offensive and abusive issue is racism. Racism is a major life-changing issue in society that hurts a majority of the ethnic cultures. A study reports, “Overall, 58% of Americans say racism is a “big problem in our society” (Neal). This shocking realization puts in the perspective the many issues that ethnic people endure. Although, biracial adolescents have to face racism in a different form. These adolescents aren’t accepted in society due to their

Social media might be the biggest tool in which interracial relationships and marriage in shown off and seen on, because everyone is on or either has a social media. Whether it’s Instagram, Twitter, and or Facebook, if you are on some type of social media you will see some type of interracial relationship or some sort. Television has been a way that brings people together. By forms of communication and connection’s. And a TV show that brought out interracial relationships and marriage was the TV show “I love Lucy”. The show aired in 1951, and it was the first televised show to have an interracial relationship. The TV show starred Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo she was an Anglo woman married to Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo. Another TV show that was popular and really got people’s attention was the show called “The Jefferson’s” the show premiered in 1975 on a popular channel called CBS. The two married interracial couples were neighbors to the Jefferson’s. Tom and Helen Willis were the two married interracial couples, and their real names were Franklin Cover and Roxie Roker, neighbors of George and Louise

The union between Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, or any other group can be categorized as an interracial marriage. It does not matter what ethnic groups are involved: one prominent result of interracial marriages are the children that are born into these families. Interracial dating becomes a problem because people cannot seem to ignore race. Racial identity is constant, unavoidable, and has consequences that are very real. The color of one’s skin impacts how society will accept a person and also determines the advantages and disadvantages one will receive. Children begin to get stressed when there are conflicts that involve their dual ethnic identity. Children who are born to interracial families suffer the impact of negative consequences on their psychological well-being. This paper presents some background of the history of interracial marriages and some of the issues surrounding children of interracial marriages, and some of the negative aspects as they grow older.

History has its fair share in learning to accept different customs and cultural aspects in many countries. Interracial marriage, for example, was legalized just fifty years ago in the United States and questioned whether or not the cohesion of two different races through culture is a positive outcome. Despite the worrisome idea of clashing beliefs, interracial marriage can open a new learning experience and bring acceptance amongst mixing cultures, races, and religions.