Conclusion

                      The nature of interracial relationships caused complaints in society in the early to mid 20^th century and were seen as a social problem.  Many white Americans did not like the idea of non-whites elevating themselves economically or socially based on their marriages into white society.  Furthermore, the nonwhites had to deal with their own family issues, as interracial marriage was not looked upon favorable by their cultures either.  Truly, those who entered into unions with people of different colors were alone with their spouses against the world as they faced racial slurs and prejudices from all sides.  Their children were not seen as one race or the other, and looked down upon by everyone for their mixture.  Laws forbidding and criminalizing marriages between whites and nonwhites sprang up to fix the social “problem” that arose from the mixing of races due to living in close quarters, yet the marriages persisted.  It seems as though no amount of social demonization of whites marrying the “other” could stop these unions.  Not because of curious teenagers rebelling against their parent’s wishes, not because nonwhites sought to forward their social standings by marrying young white girls, but because when people of any color are put in close proximity with one another, they will talk, dance, begin  relationships, marry, and mate.  These marriages happened because people were there for them to happen.  Although interracial marriages happened, and in some cases successfully, race mixing, in the eyes of the sociologists who studied them, was doomed from the start, and brought about the ruin of young white women.

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