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Title: Learning about Race: The Lived Experiences of Interracially Married U.S.-born White and European Immigrant Women in the 1930s

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2019

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DOI: 10.1177/2332649218791260

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Abstract: How did intermarriage between African Americans and European immigrants influence how European immigrants learned about race in the United States? In this study, the authors compare the lived experiences of European-born and U.S.-born white women married to U.S.-born black men in Chicago in the late 1930s. The authors find that both groups of women characterized their lives as marked by material, social, and institutional costs, and they experienced these costs as racial boundary policing, racial border patrolling, and rebound racism. The authors argue that through these experiences, European immigrant women learned about the racial hierarchy and the importance of whiteness in the United States. The authors also find that European immigrant women had differing reactions to their race learning. Younger European immigrant women strengthened their ties to white racial community, while older European wives strengthened their ties to black racial community. These findings add to immigration literature that exp...

Url: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2332649218791260

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Authors: Adeyinka-Skold, Sarah; Roberts, Dorothy E.

Periodical (Full): Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Issue: 3

Volume: 5

Pages: 340-353

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States