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How do Americans really feel about interracial couples?
According to the most recent U.S. census, approximately 15 percent of all newlywed couples are interracial.
- Allison Skinner
- The Conversation
More interracial relationships are also appearing in the media – on television, in film and in advertising.
These trends suggest that great strides have been made in the roughly 50 years since the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws.
But as a psychologist who studies racial attitudes, I suspected that attitudes toward interracial couples may not be as positive as they seem.
My previous work had provided some evidence of bias against interracial couples.
But I wanted…