Title: Interracial Marriage | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: Marriage, Interracial
Marriage, Interracial
Marriage, Interracial
RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
EDUCATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
SEX DIFFERENCES IN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
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Interracial Marriage
Interracial Marriage
Growth of Interracial Marriage
Difficulties in Interracial Marriages
Reasons for Entering into Interracial Marriages
Resiliency in Interracial Marriages
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Content: SEX DIFFERENCES IN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
Black-white couples show a definite pattern: About two-thirds have a black husband and a white wife. Asian American – white couples lean the other way; three-fifths have an Asian American wife. Sex balances are roughly even for intermarried couples that include a white and a Hispanic or an American Indian. Clearly, white men have disproportionately more Asian American wives while white women have more black husbands. In the mid-twentieth century, Robert Merton (1941) proposed a status exchange theory to explain the high proportion of black men – white women marriages. He suggested that men who have high economic or professional status but who carry the stigma of being black in a racial caste society trade their social position for whiteness by marriage. Meanwhile, some social scientists argue that racialized sexual images also encourage marriages between white women and black men. Throughout Europe and the West, fair skin tone has