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Hardships

past & present

  • anti-miscegenation laws: laws that enforced racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage.
  • interracial couple were sent to prison, physically abused.
  • Their homes were vandalized

Today

  • As of 2017, 409,000 black men have a white spouse

  • As of 2017, 172,000 black women have a white spouse

  • 1 in 10 marriages are interracial and it is predicted to increase by 28% in the next 10 years

History of Black & White Relationships in America

History

  • First cases of interracial relations occurred in slavery when white slave masters raped black slaves (Dutch ship-Jamestown VA)
  • interracial relations also peaked during colonial period when white indentured servants and black slaves were in close proximity

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