antimiscegnation laws, 12, 14, 16, 18–19

purpose of, 12–13

Ba’Hai faith. See under religious affiliation and interracial couples

beginning of laws prohibiting black-white interracial marriage, 4

Bernard, Jesse, 108

biracial, 26, 28–29, 88, 92, 156

Bob Jones University, 25

Brown University, 25–26

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas,1954),, 93

celebrities. See Hollywood

characteristics of spouses in black-white interracial marriages, 15–16

couples’ ages, 26–27, 39, 154–155

where couples first met, 25–26, 46, 96

courtship length, 46–47, 97–98

divorce, 88–89, 98, 99, 157–158

double negative, power of, 106

“driving while black,”, 125

early arguments to prohibit interracial marriages, 16–18

Eugenics argument, 17–18

early marriages between white men and black women, 15

education attainment of couples interviewed, 35, 44–45, 92–94

end of laws prohibiting black-white interracial marriage, 4

expressive role in marriage, 106

factors affecting life quality of interracial couples, 32–35

faith. See under religious affiliation and interracial couples

family acceptance of marriage, 26–27

Franklin, Benjamin

black women, 14

Freudian analysis, 22

gender role socialization, 106–107, 117

growth in the number of black women-white men interracial marriages, 3

“the hair issue,”, 119, 79

Hawthorne effect, 110–111

Hollywood, 87

Berry, Halle, 87

Carroll, Diahann, 140

Goldberg, Whoppi, 140

Lopez, Jennifer, 87