| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4 | The History Cooperative

Renee C. Romano. Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 368. $35.00.
Marriage across the color line constitutes a more transgressive act than mere sex, precisely because marriage entails legal sanction. Looking North, South, and West, Renee C. Romano expertly maps changing attitudes and experiences of black-white marriages since World War II, drawing on newspapers, sociological studies, law, literature, film, memoirs, and interviews. The individual stories that punctuate her engaging narrative range from disturbing to heartwrenching, if hardly surprising. Famous personalities pepper the text, but many more of Romano's stories concern people who lived far outside the spotlight.	1
Romano charts "the erosion of the taboo against black-white marriage" (p. 8) yet wisely argues that this does not translate into diminished racism. She is attentive to class status in both black and white communities, and to the differences between marriages of black men and white women versus those of black women and white men. The book proceeds chronologically, with chapters on black attitudes following those on white attitudes, which may lead readers to assume that black people's ideas formed only in reaction.	. . .

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