New study: Educated blacks are more likely to marry whites
According to a study being released in the October edition of the Journal of Marriage and Family, though black Americans are still the least assimilated, the more education they have, the more likely they are to marry white people...
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According to a study being released in the October edition of the Journal of Marriage and Family, though Black Americans are still the least assimilated, the more education they have, the more likely they are to marry white people.
Blacks who have completed higher levels of education are more likely to marry whites because they have a greater chance of interacting with them in school, the workplace and neighborhoods where they live — a fact that has been true for other groups for a while but not for blacks, Qian says.
“This doesn’t imply that we’ve moved into a post-racial society,” says Daniel Lichter, director of the Cornell Population Center and study co-author. “Even though there’s been a rapid increase (in black-white unions), it’s still very low.”
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