Love’s Revolution: Interracial Marriage
This book does not focus primarily on the experience of mixed-race children. Instead Root focuses on the experiences that inter-racial couples go through when considering marriage. This includes the reactions of family, broader social forces, historical issues, and how notions of race and acceptance are being changed by these interracial couples and the children they produce. Though this book focuses primarily on the institution of marriage, there is a chapter [Chapter 7 – Parents, Children and Race] that talks about the significance of the interracial child to the world, common reactions of grandparents and other family members to these children, parenting mixed-race children, and helps parents and or helping professional begin to understand how these two generations (monoracial parents and mixed-race children) differ in their concepts of race and how they experience race.
Posted on Monday, October 9th, 2006 in the following categories: 2001, Book, Counseling Resources, Maria Root, Students/Family Resources
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