Despite growing numbers, public images of interracial people - who have been part of the American landscape since the first Africans reached America's shores. Confusion surrounding race stems from the illogic used to define it. Slavery laws and social practices set a precedent - which survives to this day.

Traditionally, "White America" as a whole has disenfranchised a people who appears or by definition has physical characteristics that challenge their hue as "White", today, this challenge is more evident than ever as marriages of different races has climbed in the United States. According to the United States Census data, there are over one million interracial marriages. Marriages between white men and Asian women are highest, supporting almost 25 percent of all interracial covenants. It is estimated that one out of every four marriages is between blacks and whites.

This research proposal will designate its focus and energy toward the offspring of interracial couples. Until recently, conventional wisdom typically classified an interracial child a

The most vocal opponents of such a course were the professional leaders of various ethnic groups, fearful that allowing people to choose "mixed" would mean fewer in their own category and, by extension, likely would result in less political clout for them. So the politicos came up with the "pick more than one" option which will allow the so-called leaders of many groups to claim they "represent" at least as many and more people than before.

Since then, individuals and groups have sought redress in matters of race through the powers of law, political office, and the interpretation of our government underpinning: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Measurements of progress and regress are marked by legislative acts (including Dred Scott verse. Sandford [1857], the Emancipation Proclamation or Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution [1865], Brown verses Board of Education [1954], the voting Rights Act of 1964, and Loving verse Virginia). It wasn't until 1967, in the U.S. Supreme Court's Loving verse Virginia decision, that remaining anti-miscegenation laws (still on the books in seventeen states at the time) were overruled. Richard and Mildred Loving were the appellants in the case. In 1958 the newlywed Loving were arrested in their Virginia hometown for being married to each other. She was black he was white. Rather than face incarceration, they moved back in with their respective parents, then moved together to Washington, D.C., where they lived for several years. The Virginia judges ruling also ordered that they never visit Virginia together. (Funderburg p26)

The basis of this analysis will contrast the studies that interracial children are inferior, abnormal, lack true identity, and challenge the classification of "The one drop rule" identification codes from American Minority Peoples a study in racial and cultural conflicts in the United States: by Donald Young.

The significance of all this is the problem of race mixture lies in the fact that the attendant groups break down social as well as political barriers separating or mixing cultural groups. After assessing both sides of the argument, I conclude that my research yet circumstantial extended a political view those interracial children could not benefit from the "one drop rule" and question the intent to add a multiracial box as a means of identifying interracial children.

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