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National Institute of Health moc. Pennsylvania State University ude. Increases in interracial marriage have been interpreted as reflecting reduced social distance among racial and ethnic groups, but little is known about the stability of interracial marriages. After controlling for couple characteristics, the risk of divorce or separation among interracial couples was similar to the more-divorce-prone origin group. The antimiscegenation laws in the United States, enacted mainly to prevent Black-White interracial marriages, were struck down in a Supreme Court decision Sollors,

The first plus-size model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, Graham described in an essay for Glamour what happened when she brought Ervin, whom she had met in church, to Nebraska to meet her family. She continued, "I naively hoped everyone would be color-blind -- which is not what happened. When my grandparents met Justin, my grandmother was cordial but cold. She greeted him and immediately walked away. Instead my grandmother looked me in the eye, with Justin standing behind me, and said, 'Tell that guy I said goodbye. The body activist said her future husband explained to her that someone like her grandmother had only been exposed to negative stereotypes of black men.

Interracial relationships are becoming more common, but are still relatively rare. Speaking to the couples themselves reveals that such unions face distinct challenges. Richard Bashir Otukoya has some bad relationship stories. Most of us have, but his are different. His voice quivers and cracks as he describes a doomed romance with a woman in Letterkenny, Co Donegal.

A recent Center for Economic and Policy Research discussion paper looks at pronounced asymmetries in interracial couples. Why is it, for example, that in the United States and Britain most blacks who marry whites are black men marrying white women, rather than black women marrying white men? Economists and sociologists have previously proposed models focusing on education and socioeconomic status in order to explain these patterns, apparently without much luck. Blacks are taller than Asians, and their height distribution is closer to whites. Because they are taller, black men have better prospects on the white marriage market than Asian men.