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Suburban irony with flair, wit 2007-10-30 08:17:00 Over the course of five novels and a collection of short stories, Tom Perrotta has laid claim to the prime real estate of upwardly mobile suburbia, hilariously probing its leafy, soccer-obsessed, McMansion-lined streets.No component of life here is safe; crime watches are as ripe for satire as is social one-upmanship.Perrotta has skewered politics, parenting, the educational system, marriage and sex, the sacred cows of family life unspared by his sardonic insight and incisive humor."The Abstinence Teacher" is not a sequel to "Little Children" -- his previous novel, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film by Todd Field -- but it's a logical follow-up to Perrotta's exploration of the culture wars as they play out with surprising ferocity in parks and schools."Little Children" introduced two adulterers who conduct an affair as their hometown panics over the return of a sex offender."The Abstinence Teacher" further stirs the mix by introducing evangelical Christianity and its effects Read more:Suburban
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The awful truth, and the better future 2007-10-29 20:34:00 Hi everyone – great to be hereI thought, for this introductory post (filed, of course, from a convenient Starbucks), that I’d focus on one of the key themes in The Conscience of a Liberal – the central role of race in understanding both what happened to America over the past 30 years, and its implications for the future.Basically, the book is an attempt to understand two puzzles about what happened to the America I grew up – the broadly middle-class society of the postwar generation.The first puzzle is economic: what happened to the middle class. I argue in the book that a large part of the rise in inequality is political in origin, having to do with the rise of movement conservatism, the cohesive set of people and institutions that has taken over the Republican Party. Maybe we’ll talk more about that in later conversation.The other puzzle is why rising inequality, far from provoking a populist political backlash, has been accompanied by a move to the right: politicians who w Read more:awful
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Meet Interracial Lovers Over a Drink with InterracialFriends 2007-11-06 05:38:00 Sex and spontaneity are the two magic ingredients for a new startup called InterracialFriends, which launches today in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco after beta testing in Austin, Texas for over a month.The idea behind InterracialFriends is to bring the scheme of color-blind dating to the web. Sign up, answer some personal questions (age, height, body type, what type of date you’re looking for, etc.), and indicate the times and neighborhoods you are available to go on a quick date, even if its on very short notice. The site will then use its algorithm to match you up with someone in your area who is available during one of your time slots. Both single and double date arrangements can be made, and you can bring a friend, too, if you’re overly nervous about meeting strangers on your own.InterracialFriends is a dating site that cuts straight to the chase. Don’t expect to spend endless amounts of time filling out personality quizzes or browsing the profiles of potential mat Read more:Lovers
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What's race got to do with it? 2007-11-06 05:19:00 Alexandria MooreThe success of a man or woman does not determine whom society thinks they should love or who they will love. Love is not a counterpart to fame, so it does not matter how famous someone becomes - they are going to love whoever their heart tells them to.I've often heard African- American women say that they hate it when a black man becomes famous - he's always quick to run to a Caucasian woman to marry.They say that he forgets about the sister that stayed with his ass when he had nothing and was a nobody, and they feel that now that he has a little bit of fame and fortune, he wants to kick her to the curb like she never existed. Although this may be true for some, I don't think so.Now we do have a few brothers that chose to marry someone of a different race once they became successful, but we also have some that stuck to their beautiful black women. I hate to see women get mad over interracial marriages or dating.Ladies, it is not your business whom that man decides to
The Color of Love 2007-11-05 03:00:00 Vivian YunThe Color
of Love, an interracial dating forum presented by Alpha Kappa Alpha Incorporated and the Junior Class Council, was held on Nov. 1.Professor of the school of communication studies Thaddeus Herron led the forum in which he spoke about a variety of different aspects of interracial dating.Herron showed a 10-minute clip called “The Colors of Love” which reviewed interracial stereotypes and included montages from different movies. In addition, Herron provided a handout about stereotypes concerning interracial dating, a PowerPoint about myths and facts defining interracial dating.“Intercultural dating is more appreciated,” Herron said, “It’s so much more than the skin color, and culture plays a bigger role than race because we all come from different cultures.”AKA Chairperson junior Chiquita King thinks that it is important for students to have an open mind about things such as interracial dating.Herron agreed.“It’s important to raise awareness about inte
Difficulties in Interracial Marriages 2007-11-16 07:03:00 The problems encountered by interracial couples are often the result of negative societal attitudes about interracial relationships. Black-Caucasian unions have the lowest frequency of occurrence because of longstanding negative beliefs about these marriages. In general, Caucasians tend to disapprove of interracial marriages, and blacks tend to approve.Asian Americans have also experienced difficulties in their interracial marriages. Asian Americans engage in more interracial relationships than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. Laws forbidding interracial marriages between Asians and Caucasians were common in the United States. Even though the results of these cases made interracial marriages legal, the negative societal perspective on such unions has been slow to change.Interracial relationships and marriages remain controversial for several additional reasons. Many Asian Americans are alarmed because of the rising number of interracial unions, which they believe
Interracial dating still not accepted 2007-11-16 06:36:00 A couple pulls into the parking lot of a nice restaurant popular with young couples. The guy, who is white, gets out and opens the door for his date, a young black woman, fashionably dressed yet modest. The two hold hands and walk inside. As they are being seated, a couple of people waiting for takeout give them furtive glances and several people stop eating and stare.This is what happened to us last week at Roscoe’s on Pico Boulevard and the week before at BJs in Westwood.The calm and carefree environment at Pepperdine makes it easy to forget real world problems. There is little racial tension on campus. Most people have a diverse group of friends who share similar interests. However, one only has to step off campus into the chaotic environment of Los Angeles, one of the most diverse yet racially partitioned cities in the world. An angry glance here, a cold stare there and a smirk and shaking of the head are part of the world encountered by interracial couples like us, whether it is
Interracial Marriage Challenges 2007-11-14 07:03:00 Interracial Marriage Challenges From OthersAs an interracial couple you will possibly face extra challenges in your marriage from people outside your marriage. If you want to make sure that these possible challenges don't hurt your marriage, talk about them with one another!Open hostility and intimidationNegative sterotypingDerogatory commentsStares, insults, jibes, slights, and whispersA sense of isolationPossible family rejection or being disinheritedInterracial Marriage Challenges From One AnotherExpectations:It can be very romantic and exciting to love someone different.However, don't let the attraction of forbidden love distract you from dealing with the issues that your interracial marriage may have to face.Don't fall into the myth of thinking that your love for one another can overcome anything life throws at you. Every married couple needs to develop and use effective communication skills so that difficult times can be handled in healthy ways.Children: You and your spouse ne
Interracial Marriages and the Effects on Children 2007-11-14 06:41:00 Interracial marriages can include the union of Asians, Hispanics, Blacks, Whites, and any other group. However, when people talk about race relations, the focus is on Blacks and Whites. No matter what ethnic groups are involved, one major result of these marriages are children.Children
from interracial marriages are no longer denied the same benefits and privileges as the children prior to Loving. Celebrities like Tiger Woods may have changed society's views on interracial children, but are there more serious effects on these children than what is shown by Tiger Woods? These effects and the history of interracial marriages will be the focus of this annotated bibliography.The troubles biracial children may face as they grow up, but the advantages a child may have because he/she is biracial. First, a child needs to be completely prepared to face racism. Categorization and racism pose a problem to a biracial child. Those who are racist thinkers need to place everyone into a category, but Read more:Effects
Interracial couples are complicated 2007-11-12 21:18:00 There seems to be this myth out there that racial discrimination does not exist. But if you really want to see the monster of racism rear it's ugly head, try bringing up the issue of interracial dating.People say all the time that race relations in this country have come a long way, and they have, but on the romantic side of things, we're slacking. I have spoken with so many people over the past several years that tell me their parents are pressuring them to bring home a specific ethnic group.It's interesting to see the face of a man, who swears to love all races, when "daddy's little girl" comes back from college with a man of another race. Or the face of a mother whose only son calls to tell her about the girl of his dreams that he just met and mentions her skin color isn't the same.Of course there are plenty parents who don't care about race, but then you've got to factor in the grandparents, aunts, uncles, and siblings that may. And if you're lucky enough to have everyone o Read more:couples
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Reasons for Entering into Interracial Marriages 2007-11-17 05:32:00 Like other couples deciding to spend their lives together in marriage, interracial couples have many reasons for their choice to marry. The words of a Caucasian female engaged in an interracial marriage point out the importance of recognizing that interracial couples are attracted to each other for the same reasons as homogeneous couples.People should first look inside themselves before they look at others and judge them. They should remember that a couple is made up of two people, not two races or cultures. Like other women, I was attracted to my husband because he is considerate, caring, and someone I enjoy spending time with. . . . Healthy families raise healthy children no matter the race or culture of the parents.Research supports this woman's perspective. Interracial couples tend to marry because of four important facts: shared common interests, the attractiveness of the partner, shared similar entertainment interests, and socioeconomic similarity. Racial selection factors tend Read more:Reasons
Resiliency in Interracial Marriages 2007-11-17 05:24:00 Many of the people engaged in stable, well-functioning interracial marriages tend to be older, more educated, and have higher incomes, all factors seen as increasing marital stability. Interracial couples that appear to be more vulnerable to marital difficulties tend to have lower incomes, less education, and limited residence in the United States of a foreign-born partner. The length of residence can amplify cultural differences in the relationship and generate or exacerbate marital discord. Marital stability is also affected by the particular racial combination. Racial prejudice is often cited as a main reason why, in some racial groups, out-marriages are rare and in others are more common. In addition, racial prejudice has been shown to affect the resiliency of the marriage based on the partner's ability to cope with the prejudice.There are several factors that could facilitate resiliency in interracial marriages. First, interracial marriages tend to be more stable and involve fewe
Love Story: Ron and Shirley Reid 2007-11-23 03:02:00 During the 1950s, many Monroe residents liked to go to the Pollyanna Cafe.Shirley
Frye and her young daughter made their way there one day and met the man who would change their lives.Once inside the cafe, Shirley's daughter wasted no time in finding Ron Reid."She liked the looks of him and she crawled up in his lap," Shirley said. "He let her drink his soda."Before she knew what was happening, Shirley found herself talking to Ron. She thought he was cute. "He was a redhead," Shirley said. When they started dating, Ron and Shirley went on picnics with friends. They liked to play card games such as canasta. They listened to songs on the jukebox in the cafe where they met. Ron and Shirley particularly liked "Four Walls" by Jim Reeves. "We were just gabbing and gabbing and gabbing," Shirley said. "The next thing you know we were going out and we got married." Ron and Shirley Reid of Monroe will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Thursday, a date that this year falls on Thanksgiving Read more:Love Story
Black women: date outside their race 2007-11-29 02:31:00 This week's report called "African-American Women: Where They Stand" on NBC's Nightly News sparked a flurry of e-mails, conversations and thoughts throughout the network I share with women across the country.The following is a sampling of the issues discussed in the NBC report:* Finding: Forty percent of black women ages 25-34 have never been married compared to 16 percent of white women.Result: Many black women are opting to date outside their race, with the number of interracial couples for this mix hovering at around 117,000 in the U.S. alone.This growing trend is fueled by Internet dating, where people tend to let down their guards and try things they may not have considered before. Other women choose to date men who may not match them educationally or financially, but connect with them on a soul level. Some accept their state of singleness and make the most of it through vibrant careers, single parenting and social and religious activism.* Finding: More than two-thirds of black Read more:Black
Crossing cultures on the dinner table 2007-11-27 00:42:00 Another Thanksgiving has come and gone, an event that's viewed as an exercise in cultural tolerance at our place.That's because my two elder siblings, like myself, are involved in cross-cultural, interracial relationships.My wife is of Irish/German descent, while my sister's boyfriend can trace his roots to Lawrenceville and then back to Poland. My brother, on the other hand, has arrived at dinner escorting a wider ethnic palette than the menu at the U.N. cafeteria, dating women from as far afield as Puerto Rico and Italy. One year, he brought along the only Icelandic woman within 700 miles of our hometown of Wilkinsburg.This year's dinner was no different. My side of the family, being black and hailing originally from the Deepest South, likes everything fried, greasy and fattening. My wife's side is into healthy eating so much that they're convinced watercress is a spice. As a result, our dinner choices are as divided as the Gaza Strip.Consider before-dinner beverages. My wife' Read more:Crossing
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Interracial Story:Boy meets parents 2007-11-27 00:29:00 Meeting the parents is a time-honored tradition that everyone dreads. Will they like me? Will I like them? How will this affect my relationship with my significant other? Even if you're not nervous about the meeting, you still ask yourself these questions. I know I did when I met my boyfriend's parents. Last week it was his turn to bite the bullet.I usually go home for Thanksgiving, but this year, with plane ticket prices at $450 round-trip, my parents decided to drive the 17 hours to visit me instead. They said this gave them an opportunity to take a mini-vacation and see the daughter they have not seen since early May. Of course, the other motive of the trip was to meet Johnathon, the guy I've been dating for 15 months. I met his parents about two months after we began dating. Because we are an interracial couple, I was very nervous about what they would think. But they love me. Once we got to talking, I found myself hanging out at their house, going out for birthday dinners and w
interracial dating and the impact of hip hop music on black women 2007-11-27 00:22:00 Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent for "Nightly News," will address hot topics on interracial dating in the African American community:An Interracialfriends.com poll found that 81% of participants approved of black women dating non-black men. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2000, 95,000 black women were married to white men. In 2005, that number increased to 134,000. Schiavocampo will talk to experts about the trend and discuss how this defines the "Black family" of the future. . Schiavocampo will convene a panel of leading black men and women from the hip-hop industry for a discussion on whether hip hop lyrics and videos positively or negatively affect black women. The roundtable also will address how these portrayals are affecting relationships between black women and black men. Read more:impact
Interracial Couples Invest More in Kids 2007-12-09 07:48:00 Parents who are of different races, such as a white father and an Asian-American mother, spend more time and money on their kids than parents who are both of the same race, new research shows.So-called biracial (aka interracial or multiracial) parents are more likely than their "monoracial" counterparts to provide their children with a home computer, private schooling and educational books and CDs and to make sure they participate in reading activities, dance, music or art lessons outside of school and get trips to the zoo, library and other cultural venues.The "biracial advantage" only holds for comparisons with same-race couples from the two racial groups represented by the parents—for instance, if a Latino and white couple is compared with a Latino-Latino couple or a white-white couple. The finding disappears if all biracial couples, regardless of racial pairing, are compared with the entire pool of same-race couples (combining all couples that are white-white, black-black, Latino
Interracial Couples May Meet Four Challenge 2007-12-09 07:19:00 The Family Challenge
...There is the problem of each one merging with the other's family. After all, one's immediate family and their acceptance (or lack of it) is important. For a mate to be rejected by relatives due to color, it can be devastating and cause a rift in the relationship. Regardless of how much acceptance there might be, the individual prejudices of family members can wear on a relationship and possibly even destroy it. Interracial couples will need to discuss the possible effects that such a situation might have on their relationship.The Societal Challenge..Then there is the tendency of society to disapprove of such relationships. It is a rare workplace where one feels comfortable with introducing a mate who is from another race. Not only that, but there is always that feeling of being noticed by someone when out in public. Interracial couples have to get used to others staring at them and also being able to read lips which obviously disapprove of their presence in a r
Primary Relationship:Interracial Couples 2007-12-09 07:05:00 Love even trancends racial bounds but that doesn't mean that everyone will be acceptingFew caucasians (whites) have a problem with anyone who would marry a native American, Hispanic, Oriental, or Mid-Easterner. The real problem with those who have racial prejudices is their disdain for anyone who mates with someone who is black. That is, unless it is another black person.This attitude stems from racial bigotry that has it's roots in slavery. Blacks are still seriously looked down upon by some in our society who have convinced themselves that they are somehow superior. As a result, the idea of a white being in a romantic relationship with a black is enough to make them go ballistic. Their narrow minds find it impossible to understand that true love knows no bounds.The good news is that younger people are less apt to be as bigoted. Despite the news coverage given those who have been caught up in the Neo-Nazi movement, more young adults than ever accept those in interracial relationship Read more:Primary
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European women find love on death row 2007-12-09 06:20:00 Romina Deeken is a classic beauty – long and lithe, cascading blond hair, green eyes set in alabaster – not the type of woman who needs to solicit attention from men.But last year, the 24-year-old German reached out to a convicted killer on Texas' death
row. Her motives were altruistic, she said, not romantic. In time, after more than 50 letters posted back and forth across the Atlantic, Ms. Deeken said, mutual feelings grew. "I have a connection with him," she explained recently, shaking slightly, tears running down her cheek. "Everyone in life has a vision, has dreams, has fears, is searching for something. He is the person I can talk deeply with about these things."Ms. Deeken's story is coffee shop talk in this small southeast Texas town, home of the maximum-security Polunsky Unit and death row.Each month, dozens of travel-weary, love-struck European
women arrive in Livingston for visits with condemned inmates, a pair of four-hour chats through Plexiglas. There is no touching.
How Far Have Interracial Couples Come? 2007-12-05 08:19:00 In 1954 in a small town in Western Pennsylvania, a young white man married a young black woman with whom he had two daughters. They were married for 22 years before she died of leukemia. To date, their union has produced three daughters, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. I am the granddaughter of those brave people. Although what my grandparents did in the racially segregated 1950s was illegal and may seem like a risky feat for the time, over four decades of racial healing later, we may not be much better off.As recently as 1967, marrying a person of another race was illegal in at least 16 states. Thanks to The Loving Decision, a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which overturned the existing laws against interracial marriages, no one can send an interracially married couple to jail today. In the November 2000 elections, Alabama removed the last remaining traces of anti-miscegenation laws in their state when citizens voted to amend their 1901 Constitution to remove a usel
Why More Black Women Are Dating White Men 2007-12-05 08:11:00 It looks like Black
women have found a way to resolve the problem with the shortage of Black men. Black women have begun to expand their options, within recent years, by dating outside their race.Statistics show that more Black women are dating White
men. Black female/White male marriages went from 27,000 in 1980 to 80,000 by 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.The reason for this increase in more Black women dating White men may be attributed to educational attainment, says Renea D. Nichols-Nash, author of Coping With Interracial Dating
."A study revealed that the number of Black women earning degrees increased by 55 percent since the mid '70s, but 20 percent with men," says Nichols-Nash, a journalism professor at Arizona State University. "Women
who go to college and graduate want someone with the same educational level or more. Black men just aren't there. That could be one reason why more Black women are dating White men."Nichols-Nash says that opportunity, environment and a
Love Across a Cultural Divide 2007-12-05 07:29:00 Love conquers all, or so we'd like to think. But when a relationship comes up against the ties of family, culture, and tradition, it helps to have the patience of a saint and the skills of a diplomat. Increasing numbers of American couples claim mixed racial heritage, and millions of others come from mixed religious backgrounds. While many of these couples are indeed drawn to one another in part because of their differences, the same qualities that may have attracted them can become relationship stumbling blocks.Susan and Arturo are part of this growing trend toward multicultural, multiethnic relationships. Susan, a strawberry-blond optometrist from Seattle, prepared to travel with her fiancé Arturo to spend Easter at his family home in New York City. The couple had met just seven months earlier when the dashing sales rep, originally from the Dominican Republic, came into Susan's store to check his prescription. "One of the things I noticed immediately about Arturo is that he is ext Read more:Across
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Interracial Marriage:Love can take its toll 2007-12-02 20:13:00 In many cases, interracial families embody a mix of nationalities as well as races. Michelle Cadeau, born in Sweden, and her husband, James, born in Haiti, are raising their two sons as Americans in racially diverse West Orange, N.J., while teaching them about all three cultures.“I think the children of families like ours will be able to make a difference in the world, and do things we weren’t able to do,” Michelle Cadeau said. “It’s really important to put all their cultures together, to be aware of their roots, so they grow up not just as Swedish or Haitian or American, but as global citizens.”Meanwhile, though, there are frustrations — such as school forms for 5-year-old Justin that provide no option for him to be identified as multiracial.“I’m aware there are going to be challenges,” Michelle said. “There’s stuff that’s been working for a very long time in this country that is not going to work anymore.”The boom in interracial marriages forced the federa
In-your-face racism is pretty rare 2007-12-02 19:30:00 Major Cox, a black Alabamian, and his white wife, Cincinnati-born Margaret Meier, have lived on the Cox family homestead in Smut Eye, Ala., for more than 20 years, building a large circle of black and white friends while encountering relatively few hassles.“I don’t feel it, I don’t see it,” said Cox, 66, when asked about racist hostility. “I live a wonderful life as a nonracial person.”Meier says she occasionally detects some expressions of disapproval of their marriage, “but flagrant, in-your-face racism is pretty rare now.”Cox — an Army veteran and former private detective who now joins his wife in raising quarter horses — longs for a day when racial lines in America break down.“We are sitting on a powder keg of racism that’s institutionalized in our attitudes, our churches and our culture,” he said, “that’s going to destroy us if we don’t undo it.”
Tough times for some multiracial families 2007-12-02 19:25:00 More often, though, the difficulties are more nuanced, such as those faced by Kim and Al Stamps during 13 years as an interracial couple in Jackson, Miss.Kim, a white woman raised on Cape Cod, met Al, who is black, in 1993 after she came to Jackson’s Tougaloo College to study history. Together, they run Cool Al’s — a popular hamburger restaurant — while raising a 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter in the state with the nation’s lowest percentage (0.7) of multiracial residents.The children are homeschooled, Kim said, because Jackson’s schools are largely divided along racial lines and might not be comfortable for biracial children. She said their family triggered a wave of “white flight” when they moved into a mostly white neighborhood four years ago — “People were saying to my kids, ’What are you doing here?”’“Making friends here has been really, really tough,” Kim said. “I’ll go five years at a time with no white friends at all.”Yet some of th Read more:Tough
7 percent of couples interracial 2007-12-02 19:11:00 Factoring in all racial combinations, Stanford University sociologist Michael Rosenfeld calculates that more than 7 percent of America’s 59 million married couples
in 2005 were interracial, compared to less than 2 percent in 1970.Coupled with a steady flow of immigrants from all parts of the world, the surge of interracial marriages and multiracial children is producing a 21st century America more diverse than ever, with the potential to become less stratified by race.“The racial divide in the U.S. is a fundamental divide. ... but when you have the ’other’ in your own family, it’s hard to think of them as ’other’ anymore,” Rosenfeld said. “We see a blurring of the old lines, and that has to be a good thing, because the lines were artificial in the first place.”
Interracial Dating In Today's Society 2007-12-14 19:47:00 "Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight," are lyrics from one of the most commonly known children's church songs.Yet the state of Alabama did not legally endorse the meaning behind this religious tune until 2000 when it became the last state to overturn its anti-amalgamation laws, which had prevented whites and blacks from being married. Although law states that people of different race can now marry, date and procreate with their person of choice, it remains a divided issue today.The Civil Rights Era has come and gone and despite the removal of this unconstitutional law, society still stigmatizes mixed-race couples. The ethical and emotional fence straddling interracial dating remains divided and black and white is not yet an equal opportunity phrase. To some, Bull Connor, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and a strong advocate of racial segregation, and white supremacy are more alive than ever. According to the opposition, it is black or white and no Read more:Today
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