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University of Florida News: Hollywood films portray biracial couples negatively if shown at all; Affairs of Race: Interracial Relationships in Film and History - Call for Papers by Cynthia Miller; Erased Onscreen: Where Are All the Interracial Couples? by The New York Times, March 3, 2017
The film was one of the few of the time to depict an interracial marriage in a positive light, as interracial marriage historically had been illegal in many states of the United States. It was still illegal in 17 states, until June 12, 1967, six months before the film was released, and scenes were filmed just before anti-miscegenation laws were ...
Pages in category "Films about interracial romance" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 382 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
California has allowed interracial marriage since 1948. Mike and Jeralyn Wirtz recall that by the time they met in 1976, they both had made meaningful friendships with people of other races.
Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868.
Despite historical discrimination against mixed race relationships, the number of interracial marriages have been on the rise in the US, reportedly tripling from 1980 to 2015.
On May 8, 2015, Deadline Hollywood reported that Jeff Nichols was boarding the project as director and will write the script, [144] with Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga starring as Richard and Mildred Loving, respectively, the interracial couple at the center of the famous 1967 civil rights case Loving v. Virginia. [145]
Gregg, a management consultant, said he sees the Respect for Marriage Act as “an added level of safety” for same-sex and interracial marriages — a federal law and Supreme Court rulings ...