Mixed-Race Couples 18

Question 1

What is income’s effect on mixed-race households residential proximity to whites? What about education?

Answer 1

Higher income mixed-race households are more likely to mingle residentially with whites than low- income mixed-race households. There is a similar effect for education as well. (Holloway et al. 2005)

Question 2

The rapid increase in intermarriage between Whites and Blacks cannot be explained by what? How is it explained?

Answer 2

The changing size and demographic characteristics of the Black and White populations. Our results give empirical evidence to a newly emerging educational gradient in intermarriage patterns among Blacks over this period. Compared with Hispanics and Asians, previous research has typically shown a much weaker positive relationship between Black educational levels and out-marriage to Whites. This was still the case in 2008, but the education gradient among African Americans was much stronger in 2008 than in 1980. (Qian & Lichter 2011).

Question 3

Black – White biracial individuals, however, are most likely to marry _______ who self-report themselves as monoracial.

Answer 3

Blacks (Qian & Lichter 2007)

Question 4

For which group has the long history of substantial intermarriage with whites has produced large numbers of mixed-race persons and has rendered them phenotypically indistinguishable in many cases from native-born, European-origin whites.

Answer 4

American Indians (Qian & Lichter 2007)

Question 5

The retreat from intermarriage in the 1990s largely reflects the growth in what?

Answer 5

Immigrant population - increasing shares of natives are marrying their foreign-born counterparts. Growth in minority group size promotes in-group contact and interaction while reinforcing cultural and ethnic solidarity and marital endogamy.