{"id":7477,"date":"2010-06-04T21:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T21:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2010-06-06T04:12:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T04:12:35","slug":"black-women-see-fewer-black-men-at-the-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7477","title":{"rendered":"Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2010-06-03<\/p>\n

Sam Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a familiar lament of single African-American women: where are the \u201cgood\u201d black men to marry?<\/p>\n

A new study<\/a> shows that more and more black men are marrying women of other races. In fact, more than 1 in 5 black men who wed (22 percent) married a nonblack woman in 2008. This compares with about 9 percent of black women, and represents a significant increase for black men \u2014 from 15.7 percent in 2000 and 7.9 percent in 1980…<\/p>\n

…Among all married African-Americans in 2008, 13 percent of men and 6 percent of women had a nonblack spouse. This compares with nearly half of American-born Asians choosing non-Asian spouses…<\/p>\n

…While the increased rate of intermarriage reflects demographic changes in the American population \u2014 a more diverse pool of available spouses \u2014 as well as changing social mores, they may presage a redefinition of America\u2019s evolving concepts of race and ethnicity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe lines dividing these groups are getting blurrier and blurrier,\u201d said Jeffrey S. Passel, an author of the Pew analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For instance, of the 2.7 million American children with a black parent, about 10 percent also have one nonblack parent today. Because many mixed-race African- Americans still choose to identify as being black\u2014as Mr. Obama did when he filled out the 2010 census<\/a>\u2014the number of multiracial African-Americans could actually be higher.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How children of the expanding share of mixed marriages identify themselves\u2014and how they are identified by the rest of society\u2014could blur a benchmark that the nation will approach within a few decades when American Indian, Asian, black and Hispanic Americans and people of mixed race become a majority of the population.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More precise estimates of the number of people who identify themselves as mixed race will be available from the 2010 census. Other census estimates found a 32 percent increase in the mixed-race population (to 5.2 million, from 3.9 million) from 2000 to 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, the \u201cblending\u201d of America could be overstated, especially given the relatively low rate of black-white intermarriage compared with other groups, and continuing racial perceptions and divisions, according to some sociologists.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren of white-Asian and white-Hispanic parents will have no problems calling themselves white, if that\u2019s their choice,\u201d said Andrew Hacker<\/a>, a political scientist at Queens College of the City University of New York and the author of a book about race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut offspring of black and another ethnic parent won\u2019t have that option,\u201d Professor Hacker said. \u201cThey\u2019ll be black because that\u2019s the way they\u2019re seen. Barack Obama<\/a>, Tiger Woods<\/a>, Halle Berry<\/a>, have all known that. Will that change? Don\u2019t hold your breath.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar The New York Times 2010-06-03 Sam Roberts It is a familiar lament of single African-American women: where are the \u201cgood\u201d black men to marry? A new study shows that more and more black men are marrying women of other races. In fact, more than 1 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,394,20],"tags":[3123,3125,3124,259,3122,2702,2327],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-andrew-hacker","tag-jeffrey-passel","tag-jeffrey-s-passel","tag-marriage","tag-pew-research-center","tag-sam-roberts","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","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=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}