Context: Anti-miscegenation laws were passed in most states during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, but this did not prevent white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men from taking slave women as concubines and having multiracial children with them. In California and the western US, there were greater numbers of Latino and Asian residents. These were prohibited from official relationships with whites. White legislators passed laws prohibiting marriage between European and Asian Americans until the 1950s.

Question: What were put in place to prevent the mix of races?
Answer: Anti-miscegenation laws

Question: Why did the anti-miscegenation not insure that there was no interracial mixing?
Answer: white men from taking slave women as concubines and having multiracial children with them

Question: Where was there greater numbers of Latinos and Asian residents?
Answer: In California and the western US

Question: What races were prohibited from official relationships with whites?
Answer: Latino and Asian residents

Question: When were the laws against marriage between Asians and Europeans lifted?
Answer: 1950s

Question: When were anti-miscegenation laws passed?
Answer: Anti-miscegenation laws were passed in most states during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries

Question: Did these laws change behavior of white slaveholders and other powerful white men?
Answer: this did not prevent white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men from taking slave women as concubines

Question: Which region has greater numbers of Latino and Asian residents?
Answer: In California and the western US,

Question: Were there any laws against marriage between whites and Asians in the US?
Answer: White legislators passed laws prohibiting marriage between European and Asian Americans until the 1950s.

Question: Were Latino residents also prohibited from marrying whites? 
Answer: were prohibited from official relationships with whites.

Question: In the western US, who were not allowed to have relationships with whites?
Answer: Latino and Asian residents

Question: When did laws stop banning marriage between whites and asians?
Answer: the 1950s

Question: Who were taking slaves as concubines?
Answer: white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men

Question: What laws were passed in the 21st century?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who refused to take slave women as concubines?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Where in the US were there smaller numbers of Asian and Latino residents?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was permitted to have official relationships with whites?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was prohibited after the 1950s? 
Answer: Unanswerable