7 billion neighbors
Mixed couples, still facing social pressure?
Audio 48:30
The "Makeda" project on mixed couples by photographer Aurore Vinot.
credits: Aurore Vinot
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
They come from different countries, do not share the same culture or the same religion, do not have the same skin color, but have chosen to live together.
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In France, mixed marriages accounted for 14% of unions celebrated in 2015. Although the figures are increasing, the obstacles encountered remain, between differences and social and family pressures.
On the other side of the Atlantic, in the United States, interracial marriages have been authorized since 1967. Black-white couples are highlighted like that of the new vice-president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, but they remain in reality an ultra-minority.
In South Africa, too, almost 30 years after the end of apartheid, mixed marriages are still poorly accepted.
What are the difficulties encountered by these couples?
How to change the view of society?
This show is a rerun from Tuesday, June 1, 2021.
With :
Cécile Coquet-Mokoko
, professor of American civilization at the
University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin
.
Author of
Love Under the Skin Interracial Marriages in the American South and France
(untranslated).
Peggy Caperet
, psychologist in Paris, specialized in intercultural psychology.
Annaëlle
's testimony
.
As a couple with her Comorian companion, they have been trying to get married since 2019, but are facing legal difficulties.
And a column by
Kpenahi Traoré
, journalist at RFI.
She returns to a love story between a black man and a white woman who took a political turn, that of Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams.
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