Sunday, March 8, 2015

The Interracial Coming

These past weeks we've been talking about the Harlem Renaissance and how there was a, shall I say, "come up" of the number of interracial couples. Though the couples, or the romance amongst a white and black person, may have been only underground, why was it that the interracial couples had the tendency to be a white male and black female? In 2009 there was a census conducted about the racial relationship statuses. In 2009,  there were 354,000 White female/Black male and 196,000 Black female/White male marriages and the White female/Black male relationship is twice as likely to end in divorce in comparison to the Black female/White Male relationship. Now, during this generation whenever I do see a a child of an interracial couple that is White female/ Black Male I do notice the father or mother is not in the picture, whereas me, a child of a mother who is black and a father who is Italian have both in the picture. With witnessing these relationships first and second hand on a day to day basis raises the question "WHY???" The why is for, "Why on earth is there such a significant difference between the relationships that are practically composed of the same thing?" So that's what's been going through my mind during this past week, but until next time folks, hasta luego. 

1 comment:

  1. Wow, Sophia you bring up a great point. I have never noticed this difference in interracial couples. When you mentioned that in 2009 there were, "354,000 White female/Black male and 196,000 Black female/White male marriages and the White female/Black male relationship is twice as likely to end in divorce". The first thought that came to my mind was maybe it was interconnected to the labor force somehow. In this day and age if a only one parent works in a family it is most likely going to be male. Even though we have come so from slaver and such, there is still racism in the labor force.

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