Hello class!
I hope you're all as excited about this class as I am. I hope that we can use this blog for more informal discussion of the topic--as well as more personal exchange.If you're signed in as a "user" to this site, then you'll see that I'm also teaching a capstone that deals with similar issues--though it focuses on the post-civil war era through the contemporary period.
As you all now know from my lecture in class, interracial relationships didn't become legal in the United States until 1967 (of course there were some states that allowed interracial unions). I was born in 1973, just six short years after the Loving V. Virginia court case. My parents were married in 1971--barely enough time for the ink to dry on the Supreme Court Decision! Consider that in 1958, 96% of white Americans disapproved of interracial marriage. That would have included my white grandparents! My father was a white man born in Georgia in 1949; my mother was an African American woman born in the same state in 1950. So I am one of those first generation mixed race people born into a legal union between a black and white person. So as you can see, my interest in this subject is not merely academic.
Hopefully we'll have some fun in this class and I hope you learn a lot. I am sure I'll learn from you all as well. My work in this class also works in conjunction with my second book project, tentatively titled "Everyday Hybridities."I look forward to reading your posts!
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