Mixed-Race Couples 4 Flashcards
What would happened to some white women with children from previous marriages in the 40s, 50s, and 60s when they would remarry a black man?
They would often lose custody of their children (Romano 2001)
Why was a white man dating a black woman a decrease in status, where a black man dating a white woman was an increase in status?
Between 1960 and 80, black male/white female relationships began to soar and greatly surpass black female/white male intermarriage. Some hypothesized that it was out of revenge and asserting masculinity or because of black men accepting white beauty as superior to black beauty. But black women had never been the forbidden fruit for white men. Back in the day white men could rape black women with no reprisal, where black men could be lynched for looking at white women (white patriarchy). (Romano 2001)
During the 40s and 50s what white group tended to marry blacks?
There was a high amount of White-Jewish/Black relationships because Jews were more politically radical and in part due to their own oppression. (Romano 2001).
Romano claims that black-white couples were forced to live where during the 40s, 50s and 60s?
on the edges of black neighborhoods
In the 40s, 50s and 60s where was it more common to meet black-white couples to meet, at work or at school?
Work, the entertainment industry was popular.
