Interracial Marriage

Interracial marriage refers to marriages between persons of a different race. Some US States had anti-miscegenation laws that prevented persons of different races from marrying each other until these laws were struck down by the US Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia in 1967. In some places in the world, interracial marriage remains a social taboo. In general, however, the incidence of interracial marriage is on the rise, due in part to an increase in international travel and immigration.