Asian American Interracial Relations

Throughout history, interracial relations have had a big impact within the Asian American community. There was an increase in the number of interracial relationships, particularly between Asian women and American soldiers as they served overseas in Asian countries and spent time in military bases. The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed U.S servicemen to bring their alien brides and families to the U.S. following World War II. In 1947, an amendment made it possible for U.S. soldiers to bring their Japanese and Korean wives. After those enactments, thousands of women from Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines came to the U.S. as war brides. Often these women were looked down upon, were seen as “tainted”, and were shunned from their communities.
These mixed race children were typically the child of a black or white solider and Asian mother. Mixed race children often struggled with the idea of becoming who they truly are since they could not identify with one race in particular. Anti-miscegenation laws in the US were created to strictly enforce racial segregation of interracial relationships. A problem with biracial mixing is that it does not allow a person of mixed race to be discriminated against as easily. For example, a person could be half white, but does not look white at all. The dominant culture does not know how to face and handle these interracial relationships, so they banned them from getting married. Anti-miscegenation laws have its roots between whites and blacks following slavery. Laws were later passed that barred Asians from marrying whites. In 1850, an anti-miscegenation laws stated that it was illegal for a
The U.S Census has acknowledged the the growing population of multiracial individuals. Prior to this, the census only allowed a person to identify with one race. But how about those individuals who are mixed. Those individuals had a hard time when faced with this classification as they did not completely fall into one category, but in the middle of two. For the first time in 2000, the U.S Census Bureau allowed individuals to check more than one ethnicity, thus self identifying as multiracial. A famous individual that falls within this group of mixed raced individuals is professional golfer, Tiger