Multiracial Couples: Black & White Voices

by Richard R. Powell, Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri Karis, et al.

Book Overview

The problems of mixed race families in a racist society are fully explored in this qualitative, narrative study. Interviews with 21 biracial couples offer deep insights into their relationships and how they perceive society has viewed their marriages. The interviewers, a biracial couple themselves, ask their subjects such questions as how their churches, families, friends and community treat them and their partners. They also examine the interactions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803972598
• ISBN13: 9780803972599
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Just a beginning

This book is a noble beginning at documenting the voices of those in inter-racial relationships. Unfortunately this is just that, a beginning. What about a relationship between a Mexican woman and an Asian man, or an Indian woman and a white man? What about all the other races in America. Today Latinos make up that largest minority group and yet there is no book documenting their inter-racial marriages. This is because books like this perpetuate an obsession with black-white race, rather then expanding the study to include all races and all relationships. It could have just been an overlook of the author to not include more diversity but it appears as if the book itself might be racist because it doesn't bother to look at the fact that inter-racial relationships are not `taboo' but rather are the norm between all the races in America, yet all the attention seems to be put on the black and white relationships. Seth J. Frantzman

Thank You!!!

I am the white partner an interracial relationship, and the mother of a beautiful biracial daughter. I came across this book years ago in my college library, and I loved it so much that I special ordered a copy of it through a local bookstore. I would just like to say thank you to the authors for writing it!Thank you......for not stereotyping, analyzing, or otherwise trying to dissect interracial relationships....for letting the voices of the interracial families in the book shine through....for respectfully showing interracial families as normal, wonderful and beautiful!...for the quote given by one of the people interviewed for the book - a white man married to a black woman took his son's pictures to a photo shop to be developed. When he returned to pick up the pictures, the white clerk at the store commented on how handsome the boy is, and told the boy's father: "Biracial children are the most beautiful children. They are God's way of showing the world that there shouldn't be bigotry". That quote made reading the book worthwhile!Thank you indeed!