A record 14.6% of all new marriages in the U.S in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new census data.
It's hard to speak about everyone's experience, but as a white woman, married to dark-skinned man...I've had some experiences that most wouldn't be comfortable listening to or acknowledging.
As studies have been showing, interracial and inter-ethnic marriages have been generally on the rise over the past few decades — and now they account for one in seven new U.S. marriages, according to the Pew Research ...
We see them before they see us. He’s Latino, she’s a gringa – both young, no children, like us over ten years ago. They seem to be arguing, over who knows what – something they won’t remember ten years from now, or even tomorrow.
Sometimes people glance cautiously at us. Other times, they may stare and glare. Some folks have even had nerve enough to open up their mouths and spit venom. It’s because I’m black and he’s white, and together we are …well, we are together.