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Title: Migration and Loving

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracialmarriage and black males' destination selections in the U.S. during the Great Mi-gration. I nd that anti-miscegenation laws in individuals' state of birth aected thesorting of inter- and intraracially married black males into destination states dier-entially. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia in 1967,which forced the last 16 Southern states to strike down their anti-miscegenation laws,creates a natural experiment to explore the relationships between the destinationselections of married black males, spousal race and the anti-miscegenation laws. Theinter- and intraracially married younger generation of black males who experienceda marriage market free of anti-miscegenation laws had dierent migration patternsthan those of older generation black males.

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Authors: Gevrek, Deniz

Publisher: National Opinion Research Center

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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