Interracial Relationships and Marriage in the USA

Bc. Eva Přichystalová

Bakalářská práce

Abstract:

This bachelor thesis is focused on relationships and marriage between Caucasian Americans with European ancestry and African-Americans in the USA. This thesis describes conditions of the encounter of these two ethnicities and further impact of these circumstances on development of their relationships between them. Focusing on development of these relationships in terms of history and law and their impact on today’s society in the USA. The conclusion of this thesis is that in the near future it will not be possible to consider interracial relationships as natural and the number of interracial marriage will not increase radically in the following fifty years.

Keywords

Interracial, relationships, marriage, miscegenation, White, Black, Caucasian, Mulatto, Negro, slavery laws, Thomas Jefferson, Jim Crow, lynching, cross-race, intermingling, amalgamation

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 29. 5. 2007

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 19. 6. 2007

Masarykova univerzita

Pedagogická fakulta

Bakalářský studijní program / obor:
Specializace v pedagogice / Učitelství cizích jazyků pro základní školy - angličtina