During Reconstruction, however, state after state passed laws barring interracial unions.

So are interracial unions, open adoptions and all the perplexing ambiguities of human interaction.

The large mestizo populations that result from high levels of interracial union common to the region are often linked to racial democracy.

His research found only one incident of interracial union.

The organization was an interracial union to improve the pay and working conditions of poor sharecroppers.

Nola was a black woman with a white lover, and Easy finds himself looking for a man made homicidally angry by that interracial union.

With interracial unions prohibited, her parents never lived together.

The interracial union seems to have worked out well for both of them, though it has caused him harassment, he says, from both blacks and whites.

None of us, including our mothers and my husband's siblings, are products of interracial unions, at least not in recent generations.

Growing numbers of interracial unions are also making the color line a moving target.