After a period of racial segregation in the former Confederacy following Reconstruction and social segregation in many areas of the country, more people are forming interracial unions again. Social conditions have changed and increasingly diverse immigration has brought new groups to the United States. The number of acknowledged interracial couples and mixed-race children has increased in the United States. In addition, since the 1980s, the United States has had a growing multiracial identity movement. Continue
After a period of racial segregation in the former Confederacy following Reconstruction and social segregation in many areas of the country, more people are forming interracial unions again. Social conditions have changed and increasingly diverse immigration has brought new groups to the United States. The number of acknowledged interracial couples and mixed-race children has increased in the United States. In addition, since the 1980s, the United States has had a growing multiracial identity movement. Continue