{"id":36653,"date":"2014-06-08T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36653"},"modified":"2014-08-18T02:28:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T02:28:28","slug":"js-44-12-a-global-look-at-mixed-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36653","title":{"rendered":"JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isaconf.confex.com\/isaconf\/wc2014\/webprogram\/Paper68467.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isa-sociology.org\/congress2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isa-sociology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Sociological Association<\/a><br \/>\nYokohama, Japan<br \/>\n2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time)<br \/>\nRoom: 315<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericachitochilds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Erica Chito Childs<\/strong><\/a>, Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Hunter College, City University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage\u2014who is and who is <em>not<\/em> an acceptable mate\u2014offers an incisive means through which imaginings of belonging\u2014race, ethnicity, nationhood, citizenship and culture\u2014can be critically evaluated.\u00a0 In particular, social constructions of race and difference involve discussions of purity, race identity and taboos against interracial sex and marriage. Drawing from qualitative interviews and ethnographic research in six countries on attitudes toward intermarriage, this paper explores these issues of intermarriage in a global context.\u00a0 Through a comparison of qualitative data I collected in Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Portugal, South Africa and the United States, I offer a theoretical framework and provide an empirical basis, to understand the concept of intermarriage and what it tells us about racial boundaries in a global context. For example, in the United States, the issue of intermarriage is discussed as interracial with less attention paid to inter-religious or inter-ethnic, to the point that those concepts are rarely used.\u00a0 Similarly in South Africa, despite the end of apartheid decades ago, marriage across racial categories is still highly problematized and uncommon.\u00a0 Yet globally there is less consensus of what constitutes intermarriage\u2014sometimes intercultural, interethnic, or any number of words with localized meanings.\u00a0 In South America and Australia, the debate seems to revolve more around indigenous status, citizenship and national identity such as who is Australian or who is Ecuadoran?\u00a0 As indigenous populations rally for rights and representation how does this change the discourse on what intermarriage mean?\u00a0 Looking globally, what differences matter? What boundaries are most salient in determining the attitudes of different groups toward intermarriage?\u00a0 How are various communities responding to intermarriage, particularly if there are a growing number of \u201cmixed\u201d families? This research on attitudes toward intermarriage adds to our understanding of constructions of race, racism and racialized, gendered and sexualized beliefs and practices globally.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/isaconf.confex.com\/isaconf\/wc2014\/webprogram\/Paper68467.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage\u2014who is and who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,83,21,28,13,8,4405,394,520],"tags":[986,675,179,1572,6011],"class_list":["post-36653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-europe","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","tag-australia","tag-ecuador","tag-erica-chito-childs","tag-international-sociological-association","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653","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=36653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}