{"id":41644,"date":"2015-07-03T19:44:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41644"},"modified":"2015-07-03T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T19:44:16","slug":"cross-country-variation-in-interracial-marriage-a-usa-canada-comparison-of-metropolitan-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41644","title":{"rendered":"Cross-country variation in interracial marriage: a USA\u2013Canada comparison of metropolitan areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2015.1005644\" target=\"_blank\">Cross-country variation in interracial marriage: a USA\u2013Canada comparison of metropolitan areas<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/38\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 38, Issue 9, 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 1591-1609<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2015.1005644\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2015.1005644<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feng Hou<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zheng Wu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christoph Schimmele<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Myles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While black\u2013white intermarriage is uncommon in the USA, blacks in Canada are just as likely to marry whites as to marry blacks. Asians, in contrast, are more likely to marry whites in the USA than in Canada. We test the claim that high rates of interracial marriage are indicative of high levels of social integration against <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Blau#Macrostructural_Theory\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Blau&#8217;s \u2018macrostructural\u2019 thesis<\/a> that relative group size is the key to explaining differences in intermarriage rates across marriage markets. Using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microdata_(statistics)\" target=\"_blank\">micro-data<\/a> drawn from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/programs-surveys\/acs\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Community Survey<\/a> and the Canadian census, we demonstrate that the relative size of racial groups accounts for over two-thirds of the USA\u2013Canada difference in black\u2013white unions and largely explains the cross-country difference in Asian\u2013white unions. Under broadly similar social and economic conditions, a large enough difference in relative group size can become the predominant determinant of group differences in the prevalence of interracial unions.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2015.1005644\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-country variation in interracial marriage: a USA\u2013Canada comparison of metropolitan areas Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 38, Issue 9, 2015 pages 1591-1609 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2015.1005644 Feng Hou Zheng Wu Christoph Schimmele John Myles While black\u2013white intermarriage is uncommon in the USA, blacks in Canada are just as likely to marry whites as to marry blacks. Asians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,8,394,20],"tags":[20365,461,20363,20366,20364],"class_list":["post-41644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-christoph-schimmele","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-feng-hou","tag-john-myles","tag-zheng-wu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41644","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=41644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}