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This groundbreaking work weaves together the personal and professional perspectives of racially diverse Christian leaders as they confront this emotionally charged issue. This pioneering multidisciplinary Christian handbook serves a twofold purpose: (1) to affirm healthy interracial dating, mating, and parenting for family members, and (2) to create a reference textbook to equip professionals with biblical insights and practical tools for ministering to multiracial families.
Explores the complex nature of interracial relationships, from dating and marriage to child rearing, racism, and discrimination.
"Dating out, marrying out?" Dating outside your race, ethnicity, culture, or "class", have long had stigmas tied to them. June 12, 2016, commemorates the 49th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia. A decision that overturned all laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Since that time, interracial/intercultural dating and marriages have been on the incline. With a growing acceptance, and changing social norms, many are finding themselves dating and marrying someone of a different race. It has become deemed as a good for society. Given this, how are the dynamics of interracial/intercultural dating similar or different to dating of someone of the same race? Are you c...
An interracial couple gives an honest glimpse into how they’ve dealt with the tension of race in their relationship and their lives. When Tineka Smith and Alex Court first fell in love, neither were prepared for the disconnect between them when it came to race. As a Black American woman, Tineka struggled with the oppression and microaggressions she faced on a daily basis, and it took Alex, a White British man, a lot of soul-searching to see that his life-long expectations were skewed by his privilege. The couple’s struggles were amplified when the Black Lives Matter movement swept across the United States and the world. Mixed Up is their confessional. In a series of alternating chapters,...
Go beyond cookie-cutter therapy and interventions to provide culturally relevant therapy that works for your clients in interracial relationships! With this book, you'll explore an array of relational issues faced by various configurations of interracial couples. Then you'll learn specific intervention strategies for treating these couples in therapy. The first section presents research and theoretical chapters on issues faced by interracial couples who are heterosexual; the second focuses on issues facing racially mixed gay and lesbian couples; and the third provides you with specific interventions to use with couples in interracial relationships. Clinical Issues with Interracial Couples: T...
Discover How To Set Yourself Up For Success In An Interracial Relationship!Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device!You're about to discover the key information for how to stack the odds in your favor for a successful interracial relationship. Believe it or not, there are still people who have families or friends that disapprove of interracial relationships in today's world. Fostering a relationship is tough enough, but with detractors all around you, it can really affect your self-confidence when out in public. In order to be happy and successful with your family, friends, and career, it is important to understand how to deal with this. Set yourself up to win from the begi...
Why is it that successful black men--black men who are "at the top of their game" in the arts, entertainment, politics and athletics--are four times as apt to be married to or dating a woman who is not an African American than they were only thirty years ago? And why are twice as many black men involved in interracial relationships as black women? In addition to their celebrity status, which includes widespread popularity and wealth, black men from Charles Barkley to James Earl Jones to Russell Simmons to Bryant Gumbel share something else in common; something that also characterizes the experiences of more than 250,000 less well-known black men in the United States. They happen to be involv...
"One of the best books written about interracial relationships to date. . . . Childs offers a sophisticated and insightful analysis of the social and ideological context of black-white interracial relationships."—Heather Dalmage, author Tripping on the Color Line "A pioneering project that thoroughly analyzes interracial marriage in contemporary America."—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial couples than ever might suggest that it is. But is it the idea of racially mixed ...
Discusses race relations and how prejudice is learned, describes the possible conflicts interracial dating can cause with parents, friends, and society, and shares the stories of couples who have had to handle negative reactions to their dating.