{"id":20721,"date":"2012-02-17T03:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20721"},"modified":"2012-02-17T03:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:30:03","slug":"intermarriage-rates-soar-as-stereotypes-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20721","title":{"rendered":"Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2012-02-16<\/p>\n

Carol Morello<\/strong><\/p>\n

Virginia<\/a> leads the nation in the percentage of marriages between blacks and whites, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows<\/a>, barely four decades after state laws criminalizing interracial marriage were struck down by the Supreme Court<\/a>. And one in five new married couples in the District<\/a> crossed racial and ethnic lines.<\/p>\n

The prevalence of intermarriage in and around the Washington area reflects demographic changes that are pushing interracial marriage rates to an all-time high in the United States while toppling historical taboos among younger people…<\/p>\n

…Dan Lichter<\/a>, a Cornell University sociologist who has studied intermarriage, said the trend shows the continuing blurring of racial boundaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cDifferent racial and ethnic minorities are increasingly sharing the same social space, in their neighborhoods, their job settings and schools,\u201d Lichter said. \u201cIt\u2019s a reflection of declining inequality on a lot of fronts, including income and education.\u201d<\/p>\n

But a postracial society remains a long way off, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the minorities who outmarry are not marrying other minorities,\u201d Lichter said. \u201cThey\u2019re outmarrying to whites. It\u2019s not a melting pot.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Nathan Nash, a black man who is divorced from a Korean American woman he was married to for five years, said that is particularly true for African Americans. A technology consultant who used to live in the District and now lives in Orange County, Calif., Nash said he has Asian friends who would not consider dating blacks…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall The Washington Post 2012-02-16 Carol Morello Virginia leads the nation in the percentage of marriages between blacks and whites, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows, barely four decades after state laws criminalizing interracial marriage were struck down by the Supreme Court. And one in five new […]<\/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":[9613,9704,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-20721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-carol-morello","tag-dan-lichter","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721","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=20721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}