{"id":3203,"date":"2007-02-26T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/26\/black-intermarriage-trends-1960-1970-2000\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T23:06:06","slug":"black-intermarriage-trends-1960-1970-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"Black Intermarriage Trends 1960, 1970, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0thought I would put up a graph depicting the race and gende break down of interracial marriages from the mid-1900s.\u00a0 We had a debate in the comment section over at Rachel’s Tavern last week, and I promised one of my readers that I would find\u00a0the studies which indicated that marriages between black women and white men were more common until the 1960s. Here is data tabulated by David Heer from 1974.\u00a0 The 1960 Census was the first one to keep data on intermarried couples, and the change between 1960 and 1970 is important because laws against interracial marriage were ruled unconstitutional in the 1967 Loving vs. Virginia case.\u00a0 What is most striking to me is that the race\/gender make-up of intermarried couples switched in the 1960s.\u00a0 I also checked several of the other studies at the time.\u00a0 As Ann correctly noted, none of those early deomographic studies covered the nation as a whole.\u00a0 One researchers Monohan ((Monahan, Thomas P. 1970. “Interracial marriage: data for Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.” Demography 7:287-299.\u00a0<\/em>Monahan, Thomas P. 1976. \u201cThe Occupational class of couples entering into interracial marriages.” Journal of Comparative Studies<\/em> 7: 175- 192.))\u00a0was able to get limited samples of cities or states, but comprehensive data was limited because it was not kept in many states.\u00a0 What is also striking is that there still were thousands of Black white marriages in the south in 1960 even though they were illegal in many of those states in 1960, which likely means that many of these couples were acting in defiance of the law.\u00a0Surpisingly, the number of IR’s decreased<\/strong> in the south after the Supreme Court’s ruled laws against intermarriage illegal.<\/p>\n

Table 1. Number of Black\/White Marriages by Type and Region, US 1960 & 1970 \"irs-1960-19701.png\"<\/p>\n

Heer, D.M. 1974. “The Prevalence of black-white marriage in the United States, 1960- 1970.\u201d Journal of Marriage and the Family<\/em> 35:246-258.))<\/p>\n

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I know many of you may also be interested in the current rates of Black American intermarriage. In the year 2000 Census there were 78,778 black woman\/white man couples, and 208,789 black man\/white woman couples, which means 72.6% of Black white marriages in 2000 werer between black men and white women.\u00a0 For those who are curious about Black intermarriage with other groups.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here are the stats:<\/p>\n

Asians (BM\/AF=27,520; BW\/AM=4,472)<\/p>\n

Pacific Islanders(BM\/PF=2,248; BW\/PM=492)<\/p>\n

American Indians (BM\/IF=7,398 BW\/IM=3,751).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Note on Data: Remember the Census does not conisider Latinos a race, so I have excluded Latinos from this analysis.\u00a0 I also exclude those people who marked more than one race.\u00a0 This is only for people who marked one race. BW= Black women and BM=Black man)<\/p>\n

I don’t have a great deal of commentary other than to say regardless of the racial group Black men are much more likey to outmarry at this point and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0thought I would put up a graph depicting the race and gende break down of interracial marriages from the mid-1900s.\u00a0 We had a debate in the comment section over at Rachel’s Tavern last week, and I promised one of my … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,31,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-structures-divorce-etc","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}