Eugenics: The Racial Integrity Law

Above and beyond, race is already hardly a means of discrimination. According to Samuel Perry, this positive attitudinal change is essentially the outcome of intensified interracial contact within social and religious structures, including schools, multiracial churches and neighborhoods (Perry, 2011, p.853). To boot, anti-discriminatory laws are fairly strict and effective; and as the legal segregation of people on the basis of race become prohibited in early 70s, racial equality and tolerance become conventionalized (Golebiowska 2007, p.268). Implementation of these laws shows itself, by and large, in the increasing of multiracial religious congregations which allow black people to worship together with whites, in that white people are much

Loving versus Virginia takes place in rural Central Point, Virginia in 1967. During this time period segregation and discrimination were still a hefty part of the social standards of society. The Supreme Court case involved the controversy of the young love birds named Richard Loving and Mildred, maiden name, Jeter being married. The two were high school hearts. The two did live in Virginia but went out of state to pursue getting legally married, which they did.

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Mon Kidd, the story mentions about the relationship between Lily and a colored boy named Zach is very exceptional. Back in their time, most white people would not think about dating or being with someone who was black. It was like a rule because of segregation in the U.S. However, Lily and Zach are attracted to each other, although they are different races. When Lily meets Zach, she is surprised that she falls in love with him, because she is always use to thinking that black people are not attractive.

Authors during the antebellum period took personal interest in finding possible solutions to various social issues occurring in their lifetimes. One of the biggest topics writers seek to resolve is racial and slavery tensions between different social groups. Abolitionists and scholars used literature to address African Americans’ concerns and work within the public eye to better others lives. While authors like Ralph Emerson and Henry David Thoreau choose to describe a specific social issue and its’ association to nature, others as Walt Whitman explore explaining interconnectivity to answer the problem of racial relationships. In The Leaves of Grass, Whitman depicts how people have more in common with each other than they realize and care to

The article Navigating Interracial Borders: Black- White Couples and Their Social Worlds explores the place of Interracial couples in a racialized world with rigid racial borders. As well as research the different ways in which white communities and black communities feel about and respond to interracial dating and marriage. The author argues that Interracial relationship helps to reveal underlying racial problems in society, that otherwise wouldn’t be known, especially to white people. She compares Black-White couples to a “Miner’s Canary,” based on this idea.

The Fight For Our Civil Rights People are not different based on their skin color they are different based on how they grew up and who they choose to be. There are three cases that supported the civil rights movement these are: 1954: In Brown v. Board of Education, 1967: In Loving v. Virginia, and 1948:

The increase of inter-ethnic and inter-racial relationships has been on the rise for years now. An inter-ethnic relationship can be defined as a connection between partners in which biological and/or cultural heritage differ. A study conducted by the Pew Research Center reports that one in seven marriage were either inter-racial or inter-ethnic making this statistic and all time high record. In 1987 the Pew Research Center also found that only 13% of Americans agreed with inter-ethnic dating. That percentage grew to an astonishing 59% in 2009 (Krupnick, 2014).

Al Sharpton radio host, and minister once said, “We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.” (cite) He then goes on to say that his “son” is smarter, slicker, and more cunning than him. This metaphor describes that even though the Jim Crow Laws have been ratified, there is a new racial discrimination in America that is growing and is harder to defeat than the last. The Jim Crow Laws were the set of laws that set the whites and blacks separate from each other in the 1900s, although they have been defeated, America today may be equal lawfully but not on an individual level.

What does it mean to be an American today? Or rather, what does being an American entail? Does that pertain to a certain individual’s perspective? Or is Americanism defined through a collective consciousness projected around the world? Over the course of time, Americans have gone through various embodiments of who they are, without loosing the essence of what they represent.

Multiracial individuals, by virtue of coming from interracial families and having parents from different racial backgrounds, are likely to have different racerelated experiences compared to monoracial individuals who come from families and parents belonging to a singular racial group. The differences in these racerelated experiences lead us to expect increased interracial relationship comfort for multiracial people. First, multiracial individuals are often exposed to a model, via their parents, showing it is acceptable to marry someone of a different race. Additionally, while monoracial people often cite potentially negative reactions from family members as a reason to avoid intimate interracial relationships (Root, 2001), multiracial people are less likely to face this concern from their immediate family members.