{"id":59237,"date":"2019-11-19T01:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59237"},"modified":"2019-11-19T02:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:19:32","slug":"color-culture-or-cousin-multiracial-americans-and-framing-boundaries-in-interracial-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59237","title":{"rendered":"Color, Culture, or Cousin? Multiracial Americans and Framing Boundaries in Interracial Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jomf.12583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Color, Culture, or Cousin? Multiracial Americans and Framing Boundaries in Interracial Relationships<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/17413737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Marriage and Family<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/toc\/17413737\/2019\/81\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 81, Issue 5 (October 2019)<\/a><br \/>\npages 1221-1236<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jomf.12583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1111\/jomf.12583<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shantelgbuggs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shantel Gabrieal Buggs<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Florida State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jomf.12583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"journal-banner-image\" class=\"journal-banner-image\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/pb-assets\/journal-banners\/17413737-1521714525383.jpg\" alt=\"Journal of Marriage and Family banner\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: This article analyzes how some multiracial people\u2014the \u201cproducts\u201d of interracial relationships\u2014conceptualize what counts as an interracial relationship and how they discuss the circumstances that influence these definitions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background<\/strong>: Scholars have argued that the added complexity expanding multiracial populations contribute to dating and marriage\u2010market conditions requires additional study; this article expands on the limited research regarding how multiracial people perceive interraciality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Method<\/strong>: The article uses in\u2010depth interviews with self\u2010identified multiracial women (<em>N<\/em> = 30) who used online dating platforms to facilitate their dating lives in the following three cities in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austin,_Texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Antonio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Antonio<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Results<\/strong>: In framing their relationships through lenses centered around skin color, cultural difference, and \u201cfamiliarity\u201d in terms of seeing potential partners as similar to non\u2010White male family members, multiracial women illustrate varied and overlapping means of describing their intimate relationships, providing additional nuance to sociological understandings of shifts in preferences and norms around partner choice across racial\/ethnic lines and opening up opportunities to continue the exploration of the impact of racial inequality on partner choice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Multiracial people internalize racial, gendered, and fetishistic framings about potential partners similarly to monoracial people, demonstrating how racial boundaries and degrees of intimacy are (re)constructed for this growing demographic in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jomf.12583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article analyzes how some multiracial people\u2014the \u201cproducts\u201d of interracial relationships\u2014conceptualize what counts as an interracial relationship and how they discuss the circumstances that influence these definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,394,1249,20,25],"tags":[21679,20467,1816,30518,6690,25803,25802,25801],"class_list":["post-59237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-texas","category-usa","category-women","tag-austin","tag-houston","tag-journal-of-marriage-and-family","tag-okcupid","tag-san-antonio","tag-shantel-buggs","tag-shantel-g-buggs","tag-shantel-gabrieal-buggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237","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=59237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59238,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237\/revisions\/59238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}