{"id":43272,"date":"2015-10-15T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43272"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:44:48","slug":"what-constitutes-intermarriage-for-multiracial-people-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43272","title":{"rendered":"What Constitutes Intermarriage for Multiracial People in Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716215595387\" target=\"_blank\">What Constitutes Intermarriage for Multiracial People in Britain?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/662\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 662, Number 1, November 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 94-111<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716215595387\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0002716215595387<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/s\/song-miri.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miri Song<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Intermarriage is of great interest to analysts because a group\u2019s tendency to partner across ethnic boundaries is usually seen as a key indicator of the social distance between groups in a multiethnic society. Theories of intermarriage as a key indicator of integration are, however, typically premised upon the union of white and nonwhite individuals, and we know very little about what happens in the unions of multiracial people, who are the children of intermarried couples. What constitutes intermarriage for multiracial people? Do multiracial individuals think that ethnic or racial ancestries are a defining aspect of their relationships with their partners? In this article, I argue that there are no conventions for how we characterize endogamous or exogamous relationships for multiracial people. I then draw on examples of how multiracial people and their partners in Britain regard their relationships with their partners and the significance of their and their partners\u2019 ethnic and racial backgrounds. I argue that partners\u2019 specific ancestries do not necessarily predict the ways in which multiracial individuals regard their partners\u2019 ethnic and racial backgrounds as constituting difference or commonality within their relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/662\/1\/94.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Constitutes Intermarriage for Multiracial People in Britain? The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, Number 1, November 2015 pages 94-111 DOI: 10.1177\/0002716215595387 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Intermarriage is of great interest to analysts because a group\u2019s tendency to partner across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,10],"tags":[11276,515,1483],"class_list":["post-43272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science","tag-miri-song","tag-the-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272","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=43272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43273,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272\/revisions\/43273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}