BCAD faculty affiliate Omar Wasow was featured in CNN

Omar Wasow was quoted in CNN:

There could be another reason why so many White Americans now accept marriage between Black and White people: They don’t perceive it as a threat to their status or economic well-being, one scholar says.

Omar Wasow is one of the leading voices on race in America. An assistant professor of politics at University of California, Berkeley, he is the author of a groundbreaking paper that revealed how violent and nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s shaped media coverage and influenced voting patterns. Wasow is also the son of a White man and Black woman who met in college and married in 1968, a year after the Loving v. Virginia decision.

Wasow says interracial marriage is more widely accepted by White people now because many don’t perceive it as a threat to their economic or political power.

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