Interracial Relationships In Schools

Someone on the street is walking towards you, their skin, hair, and even the way they dress is different from you. So what do you do? You draw a line. This line separates you and them. This is called in and out grouping, where there is an in group (usually inclusive of yourself) and an out group or the “them” people. While most people will say they withhold judgement from first looks, it's what we as Americans are taught from birth to draw these lines that makes us different from others.Even though racism and prejudice still exists, with regards racial lines, we have made progress in the direction of “blurring” these lines as those in our society have dropped them in interracial relationships, in the naming of out groups, and at school.
An interracial relationship can be defined as a union between two people of two different ethnic or racial backgrounds. This represents progress in American culture because at one point such relationships were illegal, such as an African slave and white colonial woman together in 17th century British-American colonies. Most likely
It represents variety, conflict, bureaucracy, and aspiration similar to that of the American dream. It is where the lines are draw on paper and in between people, however, the evolution of school since the early 20th century also demonstrates a lessening of social discrimination based on class, race, gender identity, or even now sexuality. Thus the lines are still there, but disappearing and it started mainly in Little Rock, Alabama where martial law forced school integration created the first generation of kids that would have grown up along side all ethnicities. Even today with mixed or biracial children and “Barack obama to be biracial” (Chang) demonstrates the effectiveness of integration in public school systems in convincing kids of their similarities with other kids rather than the differences they have been taught by the past