{"id":20717,"date":"2012-02-17T02:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2012-02-17T02:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:46:26","slug":"interracial-marriage-in-us-hits-new-high-1-in-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20717","title":{"rendered":"Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/02\/16\/v-fullstory\/2644067\/interracial-marriage-in-us-hits.html\" target=\"_blank\">Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Miami Herald<\/a><br \/>\n2012-02-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope Yen<\/strong>, Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million\u2014a record 1 in 12\u2014as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely than before to marry whites.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=20702\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center study<\/a>, released Thursday, details a diversifying America where interracial unions and the mixed-race children they produce are challenging typical notions of race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rise in interracial marriage indicates that race relations have improved over the past quarter century,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.cornell.edu\/faculty\/lichter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Lichter<\/a>, a sociology professor at Cornell University. &#8220;Mixed-race children have blurred America&#8217;s color line. They often interact with others on either side of the racial divide and frequently serve as brokers between friends and family members of different racial backgrounds,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But America still has a long way to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The figures come from previous censuses as well as the 2008-2010 American Community Survey, which surveys 3 million households annually. The figures for &#8220;white&#8221; refer to those whites who are not of Hispanic ethnicity. For purposes of defining interracial marriages, Hispanic is counted as a race by many in the demographic field&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/02\/16\/v-fullstory\/2644067\/interracial-marriage-in-us-hits.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12 The Miami Herald 2012-02-16 Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON &#8212; Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million\u2014a record 1 in 12\u2014as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,394,20],"tags":[3064,3063,9703,6470,3126,9702],"class_list":["post-20717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-daniel-lichter","tag-hope-yen","tag-jonathan-brent","tag-miami-herald","tag-paul-taylor","tag-the-miami-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}