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USAPP -- American Politics and Policy (Research Blog)

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-23-2015

Subjects

Interracial marriage -- United States -- Public opinion, Miscegenation -- United States -- Public opinion, Race relations, Interracial marriage -- Sociological aspects

Abstract

Recent decades have seen a dramatic fall in the number of people that support laws which prohibit interracial marriages, and an increase in the number of these marriages. But why does the rate of interracial marriages remain so low, when compared to same-race marriages? Using national data from the past three decades, Ginny E. Garcia, Richard Lewis Jr., and Joanne Ford-Robertson show that while attitudes towards interracial marriages have changed, many groups still have negative attitudes towards Black-White unions. They find that those who perceive social and economic competition with Blacks, such as those with lower levels of education, were more likely to support laws that prohibit interracial marriages and engage in behaviors that prevent Black’s wider participation in society.

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First appeared in USAPP -- American Politics and Policy (Research Blog), published by the London School of Economics, and may be found at http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/.

© 2015 The Authors, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

This article is based on the paper, “Attitudes Regarding Laws Limiting Black-White Marriage: A Longitudinal Analysis of Perceptions and Related Behaviors”, in the Journal of Black Studies.

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17622

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