Racial Intermarriage in the Americas

Sociological Science

Albert Esteve¹  Edward Telles² 

[1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona;University of California, Santa Barbara;

关键词: Intermarriage;    Brazil;    Cuba;    Mulato Escape Hatch;   

DOI  :  10.15195/v6.a12

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We compare intermarriage in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States among the black, white, and mixed-race population using log-linear models with data from newly available anonymized and harmonized individual census microdata for the 2000 round of censuses. We find that black–white intermarriage is 105 times as likely in Brazil and 28 times as likely in Cuba compared to the United States; that Brazilian mulatos are four times as likely to marry whites than blacks, but Cuban mulatos are equally likely to marry whites and blacks; and negative educational gradients for black–white intermarriage for Cuba and Brazil but nonexistent or positive gradients in the United States. We propose a theory of intergenerational mixture and intermarriage and discuss implications for the role of preferences versus structure, universalism and education, and mulato escape-hatch theory.

【 授权许可】

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