You’re Not Thinking About the Kids: Interracial Couples Process Messages from the Family

• In Event: Understanding Marital Relationships in Context

Abstract

Research has been done on the challenges black-white couples have faced in past eras, but the communication between the partners remains largely under-explored. This paper seeks to understand messages interracial couples receive from their families. Black families and white families sometimes disapproved for similar reasons, but they also had several concerns that were different from each other and were tied to the history of race relations in the US.

Author

• Misty Wilson, Georgia State University