Interracial Marriage

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Interracial Marriage

• Natalie Pavlovic and Jacob Garber

You're two wonderful people who happened to
fall in love and happen to have a pigmentation
problem. -Guess Whos Coming to Dinner (1967)
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What is Interracial Marriage?

• Two people of differing races marry ex

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage
http//www.answers.com/topic/interracial-marriage
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Is Love Colorblind?
Census Bureau
4.9 of all marriages today are interracial2
of all marriages are interracial in the UK
You know, if Theresa had told me you guys were
black it really could have saved us an awkward
situation.-Guess Who (2000)
Do interracial marriage have a higher divorce
rate than same-race marriages?
Divorce Rate
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Different Types

• Asian and American Indian

? Asian and White
? Black and White ? 2000 census 239,477
Black male to White female
? Asian and Black
? White and American Indian
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Negative Effects on Biracial Children

• Identity problems
• ? ex Am I White or Black?
• ? Different pigmentation between siblings
• ? Affection from relatives

Positive Effects on Biracial Children
? Understanding multiple racial perspective ?
Educational advantages ? financial support
/ scholarships
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Goal of Higher Education

• To prepare students for life out in the world.
• To teach how to think, not necessarily what to
  think.
• To have ideas challenged and be open to new
  experiences.

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Bob Jones University

• Teaches racism, discrimination, dogmatic views,
  and hatred.
• Does not challenge views. They present absolute
  truths and give you the choice to believe or to
  not believe. There is no place for non-believers.

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Only Recently.

• Among the brain washing with god and such that
  takes place there, interracial dating has been
  forbidden until 2000.
• This is the 21st century, these views, among many
  others, have long since been outdated.

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Bob Jones University Drops Interracial Dating
BanFundamentalist school finds itself thrust
into Republican presidential debate.From
Evangelical PressMarch 1, 2000 Bob Jones III,
president of Bob Jones University (BJU),
announced March 3 that the fundamentalist school
is dropping its longstanding ban on interracial
dating. The move comes after widespread
criticism of the policy in the wake of
presidential candidate George W. Bush's campaign
appearance at the school. Jones surprised
students and supporters by announcing the policy
change during an interview on CNN's "Larry King
Live." Jones acknowledged that recent scrutiny of
the school's policies was behind the decision.
"This thing has gotten so out of hand," he said.
"All of a sudden the university is at the center
of a Republican presidential debate."The southern
school adopted its ban on interracial dating in
the 1950s. Ironically, the policy was not
instituted in response to concerns of white
parents, but came after an Asian family
threatened to sue the school when their son, who
was a student at the school, nearly married a
white girl. BJU did not admit black students
until the 1970s. The school lost its tax-exempt
status in 1983 after a 13-year battle with the
Internal Revenue Service, which said the school's
policies violated federal law. The school had
justified its ban on interracial dating by saying
that God created people differently for a
reason.George W. Bush spoke at the school prior
to South Carolina's primary. Although other
candidates have spoken at BJU over the years
without incident, the appearance by Bush was
portrayed by political foe John McCain as an
endorsement of the school's extreme beliefs,
including its prohibition on interracial dating
and its anti-Catholic views. Bush subsequently
made it clear that he does not share the school's
controversial views, and apologized for missing
an opportunity to speak ...
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Explanation for its Existence

• The only reason that Bob Jones University has
  been able to preach its garbage and prevail as it
  does is because it is run completely on private
  funding. The government has no part in its
  financial state.

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Taboo on Black-White Relationships

• The origin of this taboo can be seen most clearly
  in slavery.
• Both South Africa in the apartheid era and the
  United Statesboth during the slavery era
  (through 1865) and after the 1876 end of the
  Reconstruction that followed the American Civil
  Warpassed laws requiring or permitting
  segregation of the races in daily life. The era
  of legal segregation in the United States was
  commonly referred to as the Jim Crow era, and the
  practice of segregation was referred to as Jim
  Crow

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Racial Segregation

• In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, in Plessy
  v. Ferguson, the right of U.S. states and
  localities to mandate racial segregation. In
  1913, President Woodrow Wilson ordered the
  segregation of the federal Civil Service. In
  1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered the
  desegregation of the U.S. military in 1954 the
  Court, in Brown v. Board of Education, largely
  reversed Plessy over the next twenty years, a
  succession of further court decisions and federal
  laws, including the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
  and measure to end mortgage discrimination in
  1975, would completely invalidate de jure racial
  segregation and discrimination in the U.S.,
  although de facto segregation and discrimination
  have proven more resilient.

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Segregations Effect on Interracial Marriage

• De jure segregation in both South Africa and the
  U.S. came with "miscegenation laws" (prohibitions
  against interracial marriage) and laws against
  hiring people of the race that is the object of
  discrimination in any but menial positions.

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Some facts

• Even though many societies throughout history
  have practiced racial segregation, it was by no
  means universal, and some multiracial societies
  such as the Roman Empire were notable for their
  rejection of racial segregation.

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Genetic Advantages

• There is theory backed by some scientific
  findings that breeding between races produces
  healthier offspring.
• When there is a diverse gene pool, multi-racial,
  the chance of there being genetic mutations is
  significantly less.

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PRODUCTS OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
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No Mans Land

• Children who are not completely one race, being
  half-half, may find themselves left out by both
  races.
• If it is a black-white thing, which is the
  commonly known example, a child is not considered
  white, but at the same time is not black enough
  to be accepted.

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• After all, a lot of people are going to think we
  are a shocking pair. - Guess Whos Coming to
  Dinner (1967)

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Work Cited

• http//www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2000/marchweb-only/53.
  0.html
• www.rootsweb.com/scgreenv/postcards/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation