Love in America: We’ve come a long way, baby
Coco Helado
Ever since Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, in which an
African-American doctor and his white upper-crust fiancee try to
persuade their families that true love is color-blind, love
across racial and ethnic barriers has been a hot-button issue in
American life.
The film was released in 1967, the same year as the Loving
vs. State of Virginia Supreme Court case, when a
black-and-white couple succeeded in overturning
anti-miscegenation laws. Since then, attitudes have shifted
considerably. Although couples of mixed backgrounds may still
face familial and social opposition to their relationships, they
are increasingly accepted. Currently approximately one in 25
marriages in America is between people of different ethnicities;
in California the rate is one in ten.
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