Attitudes, migration patterns, availability of lovers and training are typical facets of interracial and interethnic marriages
In 2020, 17% of marriages were interethnic and interracial. Illustration: Mona Chalabi
In 2020, 17% of marriages were interracial and interethnic. Illustration: Mona Chalabi
Last modified on Wed 21 Feb 2021 12.32 GMT
I t’s been half of a century considering that the US supreme court decriminalized interracial marriage. Since then, the share of interracial and interethnic marriages in America has increased fivefold, from 3% of all of the weddings in 1967 to 17percent in 2015.
The Loving v Virginia ruling had been a clear civil rights triumph, but as Anna Holmes reflects in a recent article for the latest York instances, understanding who benefits from that win and how is a even more complicated tale.
There’s huge geographic variation in where intermarriage happens; it’s more common in metropolitan areas than rural places (18% compared to 11%) according to a Pew analysis of the Census Bureau’s figures for a start. But those are just averages – US areas that are metropolitan somewhat from Honolulu, Hawaii, where 42% of weddings are interracial to Jackson, Mississippi where the figure is just 3%. Læs mere What’s behind the increase of interracial marriage in the usa?