There are, of course, the tragic mulattas--Pinky (jeanne Crain) and Peola played by white actresses but living out the "tragedy" of race mixture--sterile by choice since they couldn't be sure if black skin would come out in a child. South Pacific: the young guy runs off (tragically of course) with the polynesian woman, and the nurse is very perturbed by the fact that Emil has mixed race children by his dead asian lover. soaps are great on many things but annoying on this. Simone(black) and Tom(white) Hardy married on GenHospital; they have a child, but now they are on the brink of divorce. Simone's new lover, Justus Ward's father (a ML:King figure who is long dead) had a white lover who miscarried his child. (so no on-sccreen relationship) Carla Grey (Ellen Holly) on One Life to Live "passed" in the early 1970s and fell in love with a white doctor--the truth came out and she had to go back to black love. Currently, Nora (white) is living with her past with several Black men--one of whom is the father to her daughter Rachel--who struggles with choosing black and white lovers. All My Children (always up on social issues) has had lots of combos of ethic young love; has Tom and Livia Cudahy married. (although they were going to match VERY popular characters Cliff and Angie in 1989 and backed off--actor peter bergman left for Y&R where he, as Jack Abbott, is married to a Vietnamese woman (with whom he has a child) and his father (patriarch John Abbott) was having a little thang with Mamie, the Black maid. Lots of chickening out to be had. plus the general case i s non-white woman with white man (even tho, that is not reality) On prime time, check out Sheriff Gillespie and Harriet DeLong on In the Heat of the Night. Jonathan and Zoe on LA Law (and his one brief moment with Abby). kal kal alston ed pol studies/ women's studies uiuc 380 education champaign, il 61820 217-333-3673(ofc)/333-2446(sec'y) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]