Crossing the Line: Interracial Couples in the South

by Beth Walton, Robert P. McNamara, Maria Tempenis

Book Overview

Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years, Black/White couples still experience a host of problems in American society, particularly in the South. Drawing on extensive interviews with 28 Black/White couples living in the South, this ethnographic study describes the issues and obstacles these couples have to face and documents their overwhelming sense of social isolation. The problems include hostility, encountered while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275966763
• ISBN13: 9780275966768
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"