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4150 - Interracial Unions: Preferences, Prejudices, and Privileges

Tue, August 14, 8:30 to 10:10am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, 405

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

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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.

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