ABSTRACT
Gregory: I know enough about interracial relationships to know that they are not socially condoned in America. (p. 121)1
Barb: I think that overall people aren’t really accepting of interracial relationships. And I think that my friends who are black and in black families have some prejudiced feelings against my family, but nothing that is really harmful. . . . You do have trouble being taken seriously sometimes because of the fact of being interracial, . . . people having questions about your sexuality, and is that why you chose across racial lines. (p. 121)
This chapter is about families with members of more than one race. Most such families come about when a person joins a partner who considers self or is considered to be of a different race or when a monoracial individual or couple adopts a child of another race.
