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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
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 .
The first recorded interracial marriage in what is today the United States took place in 1565 in New Spain, when Luisa de Ábrego, a free black Hispanic woman from Andalucía, and Miguel Rodriguez, from Segovia, married in St. Augustine, Florida.
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]
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.
LGBTQ, Asians, Black, white, interracial marriages, interracial relationships. All represented. You see them all on screen now and that is a huge jump.” ... The actor also mused on where he ...
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.
The film was one of the rare films at the time to depict an interracial romance in a positive light, as interracial marriage historically had been illegal in most states of the United States. It was still illegal in 17 states—mostly Southern states—until June 12, 1967, six months before the film was released.