Multiracial

Interracial Relationships An interracial marriage is a relationship between two people with different ethnic and racial backgrounds. The number of interracial marriages has steadily grown since the 1980’s and has increased rapidly in the early twenty-first century. Although, there has been a general shift in opinions to acceptance, many people still feel that interracial relationships shouldn’t be encouraged or even tolerated. In the article, “ My views on interracial couples and mixed race…

The purpose of this study is to see which factors, in particular, influence how a person feels towards interracial relationships and whether or not certain factors influence a person’s decision to enter an interracial relationship. Specifically, I felt that there were certain factors that would be important in a person’s willingness to engage in an interracial relationship. These factors consisted of parent/family input, age, race, gender, religion, political affiliation, personal background…

There are many variations of what a family looks like. Some families are big in size, while some may consist of two adults without children. When most people think of what a family looks like, they think of the old-style household that includes a mother and a father of the same ethnic background as their children. This is deemed to be the societal norm, however, families today consist of various types of models. Some children today are raised in single parent homes while others are being raised…

There are many people in this world who believe that the conjunction of interracial relationships are disrespectful. This feeling and thought originated in the 1900s when slavery was at an all-time high. In early America, during slavery white slave owners would rape the African American women and somehow it would be the woman’s fault. As far as African American men, if they as so much glanced at a white woman they would be brutally beat or so much as even killed. However, as times have changed,…

CRITIQUE ANALYSIS OF “SO WHAT ARE YOU, ANYWAY?” By Lawrence Hill Racism and ethnic discrimination in the North America has been a biggest issue since the colonial times. The segregation continues to take place in many social areas such as housing, education, employment, especially for Afro-American people. 1970’s was the crucial time of the racism, many students killed by the national guards in U.S. during their protests against racial injustice. The violence followed by the Civil Rights…

Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu literature who has produced twenty two collections of short stories dealing with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the theme of…

Have you ever been out minding your own business and saw an interracial couple? Did you catch yourself gawking or staring at them? If so, did you stop to think how that made them feel? Two normal people being judged for loving someone who is different than them. Does this mean we should all be judged? I mean no two people are the same, right? Yes, that is true but you shouldn’t be judged for the difference such as your race; you should be judged by what is on the inside, by your character. In…

Passing: Not Quite Fitting In In modern day racial passing has become almost irrelevant, with more than in any time in history, African Americans are having (near) equal rights, and it might not be too far-fetched to say that passing might be swapping. It can be observed in social media, traditional street fashion, originally sported by African Americans, is now the aesthetic many non-colored celebrities have adopted. However, the most common use of passing today does not refer to racial…

Summary: This article is about a study done using data from the Add Health study waves one and three to determine how multiracial and monoracial adolescents identify. It has been shown that white ethnics are better able to determine which ethnicity they wish to identify with, while non-white minorities typically are kept in certain racial/ethnic categories due to societal pressure and because of their physical appearance. Throughout history, how people were identified has also changed, as well…

Multiracial feminism emphasizes that not all the social oppressions women face are universal; or based solely on the experience of white middle-class women. In “Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism” by Maxine Zinn and Bonne Dill, Zinn and Dill explain how, “People experience race, class, gender, and sexuality differently depending on upon…