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Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
Intermarriage has long fascinated social scientists interested in understanding relations between members of different ethnoracial categories. This session expands this tradition through using new ways to understand how people make sense of sex, dating, marriage, and family formation across ethnoracial boundaries. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, this session goes beyond arguments about the shifting or blurring of boundaries shifting towards understanding the meaning of partnering across ethnoracial boundaries. It examines how opportunities shape preferences for cross-racial and cross-ethnic intimacies while also revealing the the reverse: how preferences often influence opportunities for partnering across racial and ethnic lines. Whether using new data, adopting new approaches to already-existing data, examining understudied populations, or asking questions in new ways, this session offers an innovative look at partnering across ethnoracial boundaries.
From the British Royal Family to ads for breakfast cereals, romantic partnering across ethnic and racial lines is an American obsession. This session unveils its meanings for the twenty-first century.
Racial Diversity and Attitudes towards Interracial Relationships - Kara Joyner, Bowling Green State University; Kelly Balistreri, Bowling Green State University; Grace Kao, Yale University
Why Racial Intermarriage? Race, Class, and Gender Rationales Articulated by Latinos and their Spouses - Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, University of Oregon
Interracial Dating for Sexual Reasons Only - Belinda Robnett, University of California-Irvine; Jonathan Lui, University of California-Irvine
Black-White Biracial Women's Dating Experiences and Partner Preferences: The Role of Time and College Context - Kristen Annette Clayton, University of Georgia