Mixed-Race Couples 19

Question 1

What group has the highest intermarriage rates with whites?

Answer 1

native-born Hispanics - despite levels of educational attainment that are more similar to blacks

Question 2

What group is least likely to marry whites?

Answer 2

blacks (Qian & Lichter 2007)

Question 3

Biracial American Indian-white or Asian American- white individuals were typically married to ______.

Answer 3

whites (Qian & Lichter 2007)

Question 4

When was the retreat from intermarriage? And how many immigrants entered the US each year starting in the decade when the retreat from intermarriage began?

Answer 4

1990s ushered in a ‘‘retreat from intermarriage’’ in the form of declining rates of out-marriage among some rapidly growing immigrant groups. Specifically, nearly one million new immigrants— mostly Hispanics and Asians—who have entered the United States legally each year over the past decade.

Question 5

In a 2013 Gallup poll, __% of blacks and __% of whites approved of black-white intermarriage.

Answer 5

96% & 84%