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Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different "races" or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid -era South Africa as miscegenation (Latin: 'mixing types').
Interracial marriages have been formally protected by federal statute through the Respect for Marriage Act since 2022. Historical opposition to interracial marriage was frequently based on religious principles. Many Southern evangelical Christians saw racial segregation, including in marriage, as something divinely instituted from God.
12 cze 2021 · "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage — and legalized interracial marriage in every...
30 lip 2017 · When researchers tracked same- and mixed-race newlywed couples for 15 years, they found that 66 percent of the white couples were still married, compared with 59 percent of the black couples....
11 cze 2017 · When they married in Oakland in 1950, mixed-race marriage had just become legal in California, the result of a lawsuit that reached the State Supreme Court. They are among the oldest living...
13 gru 2022 · President Joe Biden has signed a same-sex marriage protection bill that is being seen as a major win for LGBT couples. The bill also marks an important turning point in the decades-long process to...
12 mar 2018 · The Many Colors of Matrimony. Marrying across racial and ethnic lines has become more common, and more accepted, in the 50 years since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling. By Patricia Edmonds.
