Celeste Ng

I am a first-generation Chinese-American; my husband is white. We have a little boy, so I think a lot about what it's like when people from different cultures and backgrounds start families, and how the world sees them. Most of my friends are in interracial relationships, and I just wonder what the world is going to look like for their children.

American Author

Courtney A. Kemp

I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that.

American Writer

Alice Walker

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

Kevin Hart

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.

American Actor

Natasha Trethewey

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

American Poet

Audre Lorde

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Tia Mowry

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.

American Actress

Ruth Negga

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

Ethiopian Actress

Dabo Swinney

I go to a church that's an interracial church.

American Coach

Harold Ford, Jr.

American Politician

Understand 'interracial' can come with social and historical baggage in some areas, indicating sensitive topics.

Social Perception

The word 'interracial' itself is neutral; positivity or negativity depends on the context it's used in.

Neutral Tone

'Interracial' is more common today, reflecting increasing diversity and acceptance in society.

Modern Context

 mixed racial backgrounds so we forgot people from all different countries mixing with people from other countries I mean it got first I thought it was first of all thought it was kind of an obvious subject matter living in New York there's so many people from different backgrounds so many interracial couples that it didn't seem

The Power of Photography...

 in the fight against racial discrimination. Aki found work with one of Seattle’s first interracial labor unions and joined the Congress of Racial Equality. She became a teacher, and over the next several decades, her advocacy for multicultural, socially conscious education would impact thousands of students.

Ugly History: Japanese...

 a country that was simultaneously interning their families. For most of us, those Japanese Americans both in camps and in service, now see their bravery, their resilience, their history forgotten. They've become only victims. It's not just knowing that interracial marriages

What it takes to be...

 sides of the atlantic it was only in the us that it became illegal following the civil war the american government took a greater interest in overseeing more elements of daily life including marriage american states began to outlaw not only interracial marriage but cousin

Is it really that bad to...

 feel no differently about it really. But if you probe a bit deeper and get a bit more personal if you will, "Do you favor a law banning interracial marriage?" There is a big difference. People who don't have neighbors of a different race are about twice as likely

Nate Silver: How does...

 there's a big difference people who don't have neighbors of a different race or about twice as likely to oppose interracial marriage as people who do just based on who lives in your immediate neighborhood around you and likewise they ask 9 mm but in the same

Does racism affect how...

 As the influence of eugenics spread in the early 20th century, many countries restricted immigration and outlawed interracial unions. These measures to improve so-called “racial hygiene” were taken to their horrific conclusion in Nazi Germany.

The movement that...

 The name speaks for itself. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia, and invalidated all laws that prohibited interracial marriage. This is considered one of the Supreme Court's

Yoruba Richen: What the...

 wake up in the morning and think like oh here's my black husband and I'm half Indian and we're about to start our interracial day I just love kind of experiencing their culture even if we're

Couples Share the...

 wife they dated in Harlem which was a friendly place or you could be an interracial couple this is a photograph of Harlem I actually grew up in the african-american community in Orange New