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: Although they develop a strong sense of their group identity in such environments, they also find substantial opportunities for interracial contact, friendship, romance, and marriage. College-educated men and women are more likely to marry interracially than those with less education. The fact that Asian Americans attend college at relatively high rates helps to explain their high level of intermarriage with whites. The major exceptions to the strong effect of educational attainment on interracial marriage are African Americans. Although middle-class African Americans increasingly live in integrated neighborhoods, African Americans still remain much more segregated than other minorities. College-bound African Americans often choose historically black colleges or colleges with a large and potentially supportive black student body. Their opportunities for contact with whites, therefore, are limited. After leaving school, well-educated African Americans are substantially less likely to live next to whites than are well-educated Hispanics and Asian Americans. One reason is that middle-class black Americans are so numerous that they can form their own middle-class black neighborhoods, while in most areas middle-class Hispanic and Asian American communities are smaller and often fractured by ethnic differences. In addition, racial discrimination against African Americans also plays a role.