... . It discusses how interracial relationships are different than other kinds of relationships, and accounts for why this is. This chapter accomplishes this by looking into the perceptions of the "outsiders- and the "insiders- of the following interracial relationships: male-male friendships, female-female friendships, male-female friendships, male-female romantic relationships, male-male romantic relationships, and female-female romantic ... they met and married. Also, there was a pattern of upward social mobility present in the black men of this sample, and there was no mobility among the...

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... Sara, and Tracy; two strangers and his unrequited love; two Indians and one white." P.141 If love can exist between two people of the same gender and conflicting cultures, there is no reason why it shouldn't exist between people of simply a different color. In Assimilation, Jeremiah marries a ... , Mary Lynn. "As a rational scientist, he"d known that race was primarily a social construct, illusionary, but as a husband of an Indian woman and the father of Indian children, he"d since learned that race, whatever its construction, was real." P.14 Before his inter-racial marriage, he had alwa...

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