ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to evaluate the extent of racial integration in American society. It demonstrates an understanding of the unique dilemmas multiracial families face. The chapter describes the social control efforts, both formal and informal, directed at limiting interracial relationships. It deals with an exploration of interracial relationships and multiracial families. Intergroup contact that requires interdependence and cooperation is necessary for the contact to help reduce prejudice. This is why interracial contact in organized sports can result in a reduction of racial prejudice. Gordon's assimilation model identified marital assimilation, also referred to as amalgamation, as the most crucial stage of assimilation. The extent to which interracial marriages are accepted in a society is an important determinant of a society's level of assimilation. In the western United States, interracial relationships between whites and Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans were also outlawed, with Nevada passing the first state law in 1861 to ban marriage between whites and Asians.
