Coping with interracial dating

The protests and rallies in Baltimore, Philadelphia and across the country — due currently to the murders of Freddie Gray and London Chanel but the list of names is long and never-ending — have many of us feeling pushed to our emotional and cognitive limits. Many of us are afraid for our lives and the lives of our people. Black Lives Matter now and forever. Everything is connected.

The country has a long way to go in terms of racial discourse, period. In the case of interracial dating, there are still huge stereotypes, misconceptions, and presumptions about what it means to date someone with a different race. So much of the discourse surrounding interracial relationships seems to center on black and white couplings. These are the images we see most in the media -- cis white men with black women, or cis black men with white women. But we should bear in mind that there are all kinds of couplings in the interracial dating world that aren't acknowledged nearly as much, and that interracial can mean a black woman with an Asian man. Sometimes, interracial couples may not even "look" like interracial couples -- some multiracial people can read as "racially ambiguous," or be mistaken for a certain race or ethnicity that they don't identify with. All these kinds of pairings come with a wholly different context and meaning, as do interracial couplings between people who aren't heterosexual or cis.

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As late as the s, some states outlawed biracial marriages. In the last fifty years, a lot has changed and biracial couples are commonplace. By the white American population will go from being 85 percent of the US population in to being only 43 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics will become 45 percent of the population. This change will have come about because of immigration and intermarriage.