Are Americans Really in Favor of Interracial Marriage? A Closer Look at When They Are Asked About Black-White Marriage for Their Relatives

This study transcends general opinion reports and uses data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to examine responses on attitudinal questions about how Black and White Americans actually feel about their close relative marrying outside their own race. The results show that more than half (54%) of B...

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Published in:Journal of black studies 2014-09, Vol.45 (6), p.528-544
Main Authors: Djamba, Yanyi K., Kimuna, Sitawa R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Attitudes
Black colleges
Black people
Black White Differences
Black White Relations
Blacks
Conservatism
Exogamy
Families & family life
Intermarriage
Interracial marriages
Interracial relationships
Liberalism
Marriage
Married status
Polls & surveys
Protestantism
Race
Racism
Regression analysis
Social approval
Sociodemographic Factors
White people
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Summary:This study transcends general opinion reports and uses data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to examine responses on attitudinal questions about how Black and White Americans actually feel about their close relative marrying outside their own race. The results show that more than half (54%) of Black Americans are in favor of their close relative marrying a White person compared with nearly one-in-four (26%) White Americans who said they were in favor of their close relative marrying a Black person. Such results suggest that questions about how individuals feel when close relatives engage into Black-White marriage provide better measures of attitude toward racial exogamy. Logistic regression models are analyzed to determine how socio-demographic factors influence Black and White Americans' views on interracial marriage of their close relatives.
ISSN:0021-9347
1552-4566
DOI:10.1177/0021934714541840