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Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation.
Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ( Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868.
Jun 12, 2021 · "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage — and legalized interracial marriage in...
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- A growing share of adults say interracial marriage is generally a good thing for American society. Nearly four-in-ten adults (39%) say the growing number of people marrying someone of a different race is good for society, up from 24% in 2010.
- Asian and Hispanic newlyweds are the most likely to be intermarried. Nearly three-in-ten Asian newlyweds (29%) were married to someone of a different race or ethnicity in 2015, as were 27% of Hispanic newlyweds.
- The most common racial or ethnic pairing among newlywed intermarried couples is one Hispanic and one white spouse (42%). The next most common intermarriage pairings are one white and one Asian spouse (15%).
- Newlywed black men are twice as likely as newlywed black women to be intermarried. In 2015, 24% of recently married black men were intermarried, compared with 12% of newly married black women.
Dec 13, 2022 · 13 December 2022. By Max Matza,BBC News. Getty Images. President Joe Biden has signed a same-sex marriage protection bill that is being seen as a major win for LGBT couples. The bill also marks...
Dec 9, 2022 · Eric Gay/AP. The House and Senate have passed the Respect for Marriage Act, granting another layer of federal protections to both same-sex and interracial marriages. It will now go to...
Mar 12, 2018 · March 12, 2018. • 6 min read. This story is part of The Race Issue, a special issue of National Geographic that explores how race defines, separates, and unites us. Halil proposed to Jade by...
