Interracial Relations and Marriages

Interracial Relations and Marriages

Outline

Thesis statement,: The United States has witnessed a considerable social and

cultural desegregation of Black and Caucasian Americans. However, despite years

of desegregation, racial and cultural differences still exist. I show these

differences still exist in the institution of marriage. 1. Americans have been

and are continually moving slowly away from segregation. A. Since the 1960's

Blacks have been allowed to move into mainly Caucasian neighborhoods. B.

Integration on campuses is now more apparent then ever before. 1. Students

cat together. 2. Students study together, C. Black and Caucasian

issues have converged. 11, notwithstanding these examples of desegregation,

there are still signs, most clearly is apparent in the institution of marriage

between Black and Caucasians.

Ill. One of the major barrier.-, of interracial marriages lies in the family

of the couples. A. Louis, a Caucasian women, and Chuck, a Black man, were

married in 1960. 1 . They have no prejudice about each other.

2@ Both have mixed group of friends.

3, They had problems with family. a) Louis mother had asked her why

she could not marry her own kind. b) This conflict finally caused the ties

between mother and daughter to break.

B. Mama, a Caucasian Jewish, married a Black.

I . None of her family members attended her wedding except her mother.

2. Her father told her that he could not believe that she married a Black.

Nevertheless, she survived her family disapproval.

IV. An unlikely source of problems for interracial married couples comes

from religion. A. The majority of interracial married couples involved in

Christian churches before marriage discontinue church membership and attendance

after marriage. B. Couples search for churches that are like home. C.

They are met with resistance from religious people who have been reported to

have said that if their children married a Black person, they would kill them. D.

Every couple has their own crisis, but for some, the church officials

who are against divorce will turn around and recommend a separation.... because

the couple are a Black and a Caucasian. V. These churches need to face a

growing phenomenon. 1. In the Old Testament, God strongly opposes

intermarriage. a) ...

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...essed and eventually the only way to make

changes involving segregation

Children of interracial married couples learn tolerance within the family, which

allows these children to ad their experiences to others, in one way or another.

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