Future Of Race Relations In America
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Future Of Race Relations In America
Is there a sexual healing of America's racial strife? In the July/August
issue of The New Democrat, Douglas Besharov and Timothy Sullivan unveil new
research showing an unprecedented increase in Black-White intermarriage. The
article is part of a cover package that examines the future of integration
in America.
With the heading "Shall We Overcome?" the latest issue features articles by
Boston University professor Glenn Loury, Harvard Law School professor
Randall Kennedy, author Tamar Jacoby, Boston University professor Alan Wolfe
and Progressive Policy Institute senior fellow Fred Siegel.
In "On Flesh," Besharov, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise
Institute, and Sullivan, an instructor in the Department of Economics as
Southern Illinois University, use a new approach to analyze government data
and get an updated, more complete picture of interracial marriage in
America. Their research uncovered several notable facts. * Interracial
marriages are up sharply for Black women and Black men. Roughly 10 percent
of the Black men who marry now marry White women. The interracial marriage
rate for Black women, while only half the rate of Black men, is climbing
faster than for Black men. * Interracial marriages look increasingly like
same-race marriages. Compared to 1985, they are about 30 percent iless
likely to be second marriages. Also, expected fertility is now about the
same. * The result is more mixed-race children. In 1990, there were about
two million children living in mixed-race homes. That is double the one
million in 1980 and four times the 500,000 in 1970.
Bescharov adds that most scholars view the limited probability of
interracial marriages as a function of social opposition to such marriages,
the relative social and economic status of potential spouses...
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