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Billingsley, Andrew. 1992. “Black and White Together: Trends in Interracial Marriage.” Pp. 245-263 in Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African- American Families. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. This chapter discusses the trends in interracial marriage. It talks about the social significance of the interracial marriage and the stability of an interracial marriage. The number of interracial marriages is small, but they are increasing. From 1940 to 1990, it has increased from 1 to over 6 percent. There are more black male- white, female marriages than black-female, white-male marriages. The number of black-white marriages increased from 65,000 in 1970 to 211,000 in 1990. This represented 5.4% of the married couples that involved black partners. The number of black-male, white-females marriages increased from 41,000 in 1970 to 150,000 in 1990, which represented 3.8% of black marriages. While theses numbers were on a consistent incline, the number of black-female, white-male marriages did increase from 1970 to 1990, but the pattern was not as consistent. The numbers grew from 24,000 to 61,000 in the 20 years, but there was a decrease in the trend between 1984 and 1986 (64,000-45,000), and