Can't find the article that I was referring to above, but yes, every group marries more within their own group including AAs, with white men being most likely to intrarmarry and non-hispanic Whites being most likely to intermarry, followed by Asian women, Hispanics in general, and then Black men. What I care about is what is happening with Black men.
1) Bratter, J. L. (2008). ’’But Will It Last?’’: Marital Instability Among Interracial and Same-Race Couples. Family Relations , 57, 160-171.
- Uses National Survey of Family Growth
- BM/WW combos almost twice BW/WM
- Higher rates of intermarriage for BM (2nd highest) with other groups except "other" non-White groups , who have the lowest rates of marrying in-group
- "in the case of White men and Black women, are substantially less likely than White/White couples to divorce by their 10th year."
- "Our data show that these marriages, specifically those involving Black men and White women, have the highest likelihood of disruption of any White/ non-White marriages."
- "Since the 1960s, NH Black men have married White women more often than NH Black women have married White men, which sug- gests that the intermarriage barriers for NH Black women are greater than those facing NH Black men. "
2) Crowder, K. D. (2000). A New Marriage Squeeze for Black Women: The Role of Racial Intermarriage by Black Men. Journal of Marriage and Family , 62 (3), 792 - 807.
- On average, about 7.8% of the married Black men from age 18 to 50 in the 74 metropolitan areas included in our data were married to non-Black women, with an extreme low value of about 0.75% in Augusta,
Georgia, and a high of almost 32% in Portland,Oregon.
- A variety of factors have been advanced to explain the dramatic retreat from marriage occurring in recent decades, particularly among Black women. Among these explanations the shortage of economically attractive marriage partners has occupied a central position. Although researchers have pointed to high unemployment, incarceration, and mortality for Black men, as well as naturally occurring sex ratio imbalances, as contributors to these marriage market deficits, the role of racial intermarriage has received relatively little attention.
- The results presented here do not contradict the idea that other factors play a dominant role in shaping marriage market conditions, but they do imply that racial intermarriage plays a heretofore underappreciated role in determining the marital prospects and behaviors of Black women. Specifically, these results show that interracial marriage, to a greater extent than intraracial marriage, may help to deplete the pool of economically attractive Black men, leaving those with the poorest socioeconomic characteristics to constitute the pool of Black men available to unmarried Black women.
- Clear distinctions between intermarried and other Black men on a number of socioeconomic characteristics are apparent: Black men married to non-Black women tend to have higher incomes, education, occupational prestige, and rates of employment when compared with Black men married to Black women.
- The results presented in Table 2 provide substantial support for the idea that local levels of interracial marriage among Black men significantly reduce the chances of marriage among Black women. Nonetheless, some of the general dangers associated with a strictly cross-sectional analysis remain, and these models likely convey a conservative estimate of the actual effects of structural conditions on marital behavior.
- More important, the results of our regression analyses indicate that local levels of intermarriage between Black men and non-Black women significantly influence the actual marital behavior of Black women. This pattern of effects reveals itself when marital behavior is measured in a variety of ways, for multiple age groups, and with two different data sets: a high level of intermarriage in the metropolitan area reduces the likelihood that Black women in the area will be married currently or that unmarried women will make the transition to marriage in a given year.
- Supporting the idea that intermarriage exerts its influence by depleting the pool of the most economically attractive Black men, the results also show that the negative impact of intermarriage is most pronounced among highly educated Black women. For these high-status women, the pool of suitable marriage partners is affected most dramatically by high levels of intermarriage because intermarrying Black men tend to be selected disproportionately from the higher status men that make up their likely marriage pool. Even stronger support for this proposed causal mechanism comes from the attenuation of the intermarriage effect when controls are added for the socioeconomic quality, and size, of the remaining pool of available Black men in the metropolitan area.
- In closing, it should be reiterated that intermarriage between Black men and non-Black women helps to erode the marital choices of Black women, in part, because intermarriage between non-Black men and Black women remains relatively rare, at a level that fails to compensate for the erosion of the Black male marriage pool by Black male intermarriage.
3) http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/12/interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out/
- The overall numbers mask significant gender gaps within some racial groups. Among blacks, men are much more likely than women to marry someone of a different race. Fully a quarter of black men who got married in 2013 married someone who was not black. Only 12% of black women married outside of their race.
4)
Raley, R. K., Sweeney, M. M., & Wondra, D. (2015). The Growing Racial and Ethnic Divide in U.S. Marriage Patterns. The Future of Children / Center for the Future of Children, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 25(2), 89–109.
- "But the education gap between men and women is larger for blacks, making this constraint particularly important for black women. Moreover, rates of intermarriage among blacks differ substantially by gender.29 Black men are more than twice as likely as black women to marry someone of a different race.30This, too, constrains the pool of potential partners for black women.31
5) This is just one that I found interesting.
Lincoln, K. D., Taylor, R. J., & Jackson, J. S. (2008). Romantic relationships among unmarried African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: Findings from the national survey of American life. Family relations, 57(2), 254-266.
Simply put, there isn't a consensus in the scholarship about this and it's dangerous to pretend that there is. What can be agreed upon is that there is a trend with BM and marriage that is moving away from BW and it affects BW's marriageability. Geography also matters. In some regions, IR with BM is 32%, so if its effects on BWs marriageability are true as Crowder argues, this greatly affects the frequency and rate of BM marrying out and Black women's prospects. Anecdotally, we all see this trend in private and public spheres and it will take time for it to full manifest in the data. I don't feel that it helps Black women develop solutions/alternatives, if we obscure potential realities or harsh truths because they make us feel bad or contradict our very subjective personal experiences.
We cannot have meaningful conversations if when different perspectives come up, snark and shade try to shut it down or folks are being dismissive. Let's try to be direct with ideas and argue at the level of ideas, not with each other. Everybody is positioned differently and everyone is reading/being exposed to different stuff. We all can learn from each other.
