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Title: The Interracial Context of Educational Partnering within Marriage

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: Since the mid-1960s, black/white interracial marriage rates in the United States have in-creased rapidly. Although such marriages are still only a small fraction of total marriages,their prevalence continues to grow. This rise has renewed interest among social scientistsin classic theories which attempt to understand how the context of interracial unions a ectsmatching on other status characteristics.Various theories of interracial marriage patterns have been developed, and these theorieshave been implemented in empirical research using an equally-wide variety of methods. Whilemost researchers have developed their own theories and methods in contrast to other research,there has been little explicit comparison between competing models. In the research outlinedhere, I develop log-linear models from various theoretical perspectives and compare themusing a consistent data source and consistent methodological techniques. The results suggestthat educational homogamy fails to capture important patterns in interracial unions, andthat these patterns are best captured not by the prominent caste-status exchange theory butby a model which emphasizes the isolation of lower-class blacks.

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Authors: Gullickson, Aaron

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: Boston, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Race and Ethnicity

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