Mixed-Race Couples 12

Question 1

What decade did interracial marriages start to appreciably increase?

Answer 1

1970s (Qian & Lichter 2011)

Question 2

Looking at all married couples in 2010, regardless of when they married, the share of intermarriages reached an all-time high of __%. In 1980, that share was just __%.

Answer 2

8%, 3%

Question 3

Mixed-race couples are more likely to live in what type of neighborhoods as compared to mono-racial couples?

Answer 3

All mixed-race household types are more likely to live in diverse neighborhood settings than same-race households.

Question 4

______ _______ approaches contend that mixed-race partnering is prompted by similarity in the status of the two partners.

Answer 4

Status equivalence (Holloway et al. 2005)

Question 5

What are some of the ways the mixed-race partners are affecting the way we look at scale in the residential segregation literature?

Answer 5

Emphasizes that neighborhood choice of households headed by partners takes place jointly. More generally, residential mobility theories, especially those built on family life-cycle notions, have long highlighted household-level decision-making. They constitute an analytical scale where mixed-race contact and the production of identities (for individuals, partners, and the surrounding neighbourhood) takes place. (Holloway et al. 2005).