Racial intermarriage in the Americas
Telles, Edward (University of California)
Esteve, Albert (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

Date:	2019
Abstract:	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.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Intermarriage ; Brazil ; Cuba ; Mulato escape hatch
Published in:	Sociological Science, Vol. 6 (2019) , p. 293-320, ISSN 2330-6696

Adreça alternativa: https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-12-293/
DOI: 10.15195/V6.A12

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