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Racial Intermarriage in the Americas

Edward Telles, Albert Esteve

Sociological Science, April 23, 2019
10.15195/v6.a12


We compare intermarriage in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States among the black, white, and mixed-race population using log-linear models with data from newly available anonymized and harmonized individual census microdata for the 2000 round of censuses. We find that black–white intermarriage is 105 times as likely in Brazil and 28 times as likely in Cuba compared to the United States; that Brazilian mulatos are four times as likely to marry whites than blacks, but Cuban mulatos are equally likely to marry whites and blacks; and negative educational gradients for black–white intermarriage for Cuba and Brazil but nonexistent or positive gradients in the United States. We propose a theory of intergenerational mixture and intermarriage and discuss implications for the role of preferences versus structure, universalism and education, and mulato escape-hatch theory.
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Edward Telles: Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
E-mail: etelles@soc.ucsb.edu

Albert Esteve: Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
E-mail: aesteve@ced.uab.es

Acknowledgements: The research conducted by Albert Esteve in this article has received funding from the following grants: ERC-2014-StG-637768 for the Equalize project and CRISFAM CSO2015-64713-R.

  • Citation: Telles, Edward, and Albert Esteve. 2019. “Racial Intermarriage in the Americas.” Sociological Science 6: 293-320.
  • Received: January 7, 2019
  • Accepted: February 5, 2019
  • Editors: Jesper Sørensen, Gabriel Rossman
  • DOI: 10.15195/v6.a12


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