Gullickson Aaron
Department of Sociology, Columbia University, 412 Fayerweather Hall, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Demography. 2006 Nov;43(4):673-89. doi: 10.1353/dem.2006.0033.
This article examines competing theoretical claims regarding how an individual's education will affect his or her likelihood of interracial marriage. I demonstrate that prior models of interracial marriage have failed to adequately distinguish the joint and marginal effects of education on interracial marriage and present a model capable of distinguishing these effects. I test this model on black-white interracial marriages using 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. census data. The results reveal partial support for status exchange theory within black male-white female unions and strong isolation of lower-class blacks from the interracial marriage market. Structural assimilation theory is not supported because the educational attainment of whites is not related in any consistent fashion to the likelihood of interracial marriage. The strong isolation of lower-class blacks from the interracial marriage market has gone unnoticed in prior research because of the failure of prior methods to distinguish joint and marginal effects.
本文探讨了关于个人教育程度如何影响其跨种族婚姻可能性的相互竞争的理论主张。我证明，先前的跨种族婚姻模型未能充分区分教育对跨种族婚姻的联合效应和边际效应，并提出了一个能够区分这些效应的模型。我使用1980年、1990年和2000年的美国人口普查数据，对黑-白跨种族婚姻的这一模型进行了检验。结果显示，在黑人男性与白人女性的结合中，对地位交换理论有部分支持，且下层黑人在跨种族婚姻市场中被严重隔离。结构同化理论未得到支持，因为白人的教育程度与跨种族婚姻的可能性没有任何一致的关联。由于先前的方法未能区分联合效应和边际效应，下层黑人在跨种族婚姻市场中的严重隔离在先前的研究中未被注意到。
