The Cuckold's Black on White Wedding: Interracial Wife Sharing

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After the Emancipation Proclamation, many Chinese Americans immigrated to the Southern states, particularly Arkansas, to work on plantations. Robert De Niro and his wife Grace Hightower were a prominent interracial couple, shown here at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. Each of the six SIPP panels includes a separate, independent sample that was interviewed every four months for roughly three to four years. The homogamy perspective stresses that partner differences in any socially significant characteristics—not just race—may increase the risk of divorce, and spouses in interracial couples may differ on multiple characteristics.

However, another study, published in 2011, found that these intermarriages were at an increased risk of divorce. Kalmijn (1998) found that interracial couples in particular could face group sanctions if racial heterogamy threatened in-group solidarity.Finally, better theoretical frameworks need to be developed to guide the explanation of interracial marital stability. Among all newlyweds in 2008, 9% of whites, 16% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 31% of Asians married someone whose race or ethnicity was different from their own. Unions of Black men with White women were rarer, but also not very well documented, and therefore possibly forgotten by history.

In the 1960s, marriage census show Black women married (1,110) American Indians, Filipino men (500), Chinese men (300), Japanese men (100) while Black men married Filipino (500), Chinese women (100), Japanese women (1,700). Married Couple Family Groups, by Presence of Own Children In Specific Age Groups, and Age, Earnings, Education, and Race and Hispanic Origin of Both Spouses: 2010 (thousands)". Some 36% of Asian female newlyweds married outside their race in 2010, compared with just 17% of Asian male newlyweds. found a similar pattern in the Netherlands in which the risk of divorce for mixed marriages seemed to be driven more by the divorce-prone group of the couple, a pattern they refer to as consistent with “a weak form of a heterogamy effect” (p. of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another.They note that White women were viewed as "unqualified" by their non-White in-laws to raise and nurture mixed race children, due to their lack of experience in "navigating American culture as a minority". White wife/Black husband marriages show twice the divorce rate of White wife/White husband couples by the 10th year of marriage, [22] whereas Black wife/White husband marriages are 44% less likely to end in divorce than White wife/White husband couples over the same period.