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Qu0te from article. “In order to maintain their cohesiveness and identity, many groups have explicitmles about who may many whom. These constraints on intermarriage may be basedon religious, political, d t u d , social class, andlor racialethnic differences (Clayton,1979:298). But the pressure to many within one’s race appears to be the strongest.Although changes have occurred over the past three decades, interracial marriageis still frowned on (Belkin and Goodman,1980: 187). Nothing would infuriate manywhite parents more than even the thought of their offspring manying a black. Noother mixtufe touches off such widespread condemnation as black-whit~~racemixing”. (p. 17)