Race And Ethics Essay Research Paper Tania

Race And Ethics Essay, Research Paper

Tania ManzanaresRace and Ethnic12-4-97 Biracial Children and Interracial Marriages For my tern paper I’d like to discuss Interracial marriages and Biracial children: Their feelings toward discrimination because of their mixed blood. My reason for going into research on this particular subject is because I’d like to understand the feelings of others who are in interracial marriages and have children whom are biracial. I am a biracial child who can relate to this topic, my personal feelings will be expressed through out this paper. For so long has there been a big issue about interracial marriages and biracial children. Many people think that there should not be interracial dating because eventually this would lead to interracial/biracial children being born. Now for the most part those who are concerned about the children are indeed concerned about many difficulties and discriminations that child will be faced with because of their ethnic mixed blood. However, there are those people who don’t care about the well being of that child at all. They are those who are only concerned with what benefits and satisfies them. They only care about pleasing society and not “mixing” with one of a different race. I’d like to help others see what it is like to be a child of an interracial couple. I’d like to more importantly help express the feelings of the one for which most do not: the children. In my perspective the children are and should be the most important factor. I say this because yes, the couple who is interracially dating will be discriminated against and talked about but they are adults. I do not think because they are adults that discrimination against them is justifiable and should be accepted, but they are a bit more prepared to deal with the consequences that are involved. Where as the children have no choice in the matter. Children can not avoid the discrimination and enmity that people would have towards them. Furthermore, through this term paper I hope you have a great learning experience. I can only help others imagine the pain and sorrow a child of interracial parents may have. I went into this topic to help better establish my knowledge as well. I still call myself ignorant to others feelings on this topic, although I can relate. I know what it feels like to be discriminated against because of racial status. I am a Mexican/African American woman who has come to know how keen the existence of enmity is. Biracial children really have no choice because if you think about it there racial status is one that is ascribed and they can not change that. So if we know this then why is it that many citizens in the society do not seem to accept them as well as any other race. It was 41 years ago that the Civil Rights Movement began permeating the country and the American society. In the following decades, a multitude of hard-won changes have transformed schools, jobs, voting booths, hotels, restaurants-and even the wedding altar from pillars of segregation where Jim Crow ruled supreme to facilities tolerant of racial diversity. In the course of those changes there has been a dramatic increase in interracial unions, in particular marriages between Blacks and Whites. Not surprisingly, there has been a surge in number of mixed-race offspring. In 1991, about 128,000 interracial children were born, more than four times the 31,000 born in 1968. The U.S. Census Bureau says that there are at least 2 million multiracial children in married-couple households. Consequently, there has been a new movement rolling across the nation, and it too, could change society as we know it. This time proponents come from the ranks of multiracial individuals (and their parents) who are lobbying for addition of a “multiracial” classification on governments forms, including the U.S. Census tally. It also has been charged the right-wing conservatives and other civil rights opponents are pushing the move in a deliberate effort to divide and dilute Black political power. Not surprisingly, the notion of drastically altering the nation’s racial demographics is meeting opposition from civil rights organizations and major segments of the African-American community. There is concern that individuals now consider Black are categorized as a separate ethnic group. We are all aware that biracial people are not phenomenon in America. The races have mixed going back to the Colonial days. And it was not always by mutual consent, but through the sexual abuse of African American women by their White slave masters. Whereas over time other races blended with the Whites without question, “Black blood” was held accountable to the “one drop” theory, the social ideology of that era that declared anyone with one drop of African blood is Black. In doing so, America defined a way to permanently separate races. But the world is changing anyway. Changing so rapidly that the familiar din of black-white antagonism seems increasingly out of date. Partly because of immigration and partly because diversity is suddenly hip, America is beginning to revise its two-way definition of race. Though this process will surely take years, it is already blurring our sense that racial identity is fixed, immutable and primarily a matter of skin color. What is Black. It is every conceivable shade and hue from tan to ebony- and suddenly a matter of ideology and identity as much as pigmentation. The definition of black was not alw