Coming from an interracial family, as well as an interracial romantic relationship, I was drawn to researching the history and patterns of interracial marriage and families in the United States. Having social experiences related to exogamous dating or having interethnic siblings and cousins ​​can significantly affect how one interacts with and sees the world. As early as 1691, the colonial-era United States established anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting blacks and whites from marrying and marrying interracially. gender, arising from the oppression and alleged racial inferiority of African Americans. Colonies such as Virginia and Maryland were the first to introduce laws prohibiting interracial marriage in 1691 and 1692 respectively (Sweet). Other colonies followed suit, even passing through colonies that did not have slavery, although no nation other than the United States had laws like those. These laws were not abolished nationwide until 1967, after the controversial case of Loving v Virginia before the United States Supreme Court (Qian 263). The case involved an interracial couple, the Lovings, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union, who successfully overturned the law, arguing that it violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights. Different generations within the American public have very different views on interracial couples, usually a polarized view of either cultural conservatism or egalitarianism. But the general public has not yet overcome this taboo, which partly explains the low rate of interracial marriages. Although, since the court's decision, America has seen an increase in interracial marriages as well as interracial children from those marriages. The appearance of these "multiracial Americans" led to a change in the date of government...... middle of paper ...... the One-Drop rule". Backintyme Essays. May 21, 2010. Tehranian, John. “Performing Whiteness: Naturalization Litigation and the Construction of Racial Identity.” The Yale Law Journal, Vol. .Census Bureau. “The White Population 2000: Summary of the 2000 Census.” Washington: GPO, 2000. .Vaquera, Elizabeth and Grace Kao “Private and Public Displays of Affection Among Interracial and Intraracial Adolescent Couples.” " Social Science Quarterly (Blackwell Publishing Limited) 86.2 (2005): 484-508. Zhang, Yuanting and Jennifer Van Hook. "Marital dissolution among interracial couples." Journal of Marriage & Family 71.1 (2009). 95-107. EBSCO Web.. 2010.