Interracial Marriage and Divorce in Kansas and the Question of Instability of Mixed Marriages

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ID2993816
AuthorsThomas P Monahan (Professor of Sociology, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvannia, U.S.A., corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume2
Issue1
Pages107-120
Publication date1971-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.2.1.107
OpenAlexW2937818675
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited2

Some critical comments on studies of interracial marriage are offered, and caution is urged in using information purporting to disclose the nature of the interracial marriage phen omenon, including United States Census and Vital Statistics data. The legal history of racial intermarriage in Kansas is outlined, and its statistical data upon these events are briefly evaluated. Beginning with the year 1947, mixed race marriage and divorce statistics for White, Mexican, Negro, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Other races in Kansas are presented. The figures show a rather steady rise in the proportion of mixed marriages, but Negroes appear to be the least intermarried of the minority groups and account for less than one-half of mixed marriages. In the late 1960's about 15 per cent of all the nonwhite marriages (7 per cent for Negroes separately) were mixed. Important differences appear for the several other races. In Kansas, as in Iowa, mixed Negro marriages probably have been more stable than homogamous Negro marriages. Again, whether or not a certain type of mixed race marriage will endure would seem to depend upon the particular races intermarrying, the social circumstances surrounding them at the time, and the nature of the marital choice itself

Census · Demographic economics · Economics · Marital status · Mixed race · Population · Race (biology) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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