Crossracial Differences in the Racial Preferences of Potential Dating Partners: A Test of the Alienation of African Americans and Social Dominance Orientation

Yancey, George

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2008.01135.x

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“…Specifically, Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites display a much weaker tendency toward homophily in marriages and friendships than do Black and Asian Americans, and Black Americans out-partner less than any other racial minority (Joyner & Kao, 2000;Kalmijn, 1993;Qian, 1997;Rosenfeld, 2002Rosenfeld, , 2008. These patterns are consistent with willingness to date interracially: When stating their preferences in online dating advertisements, Blacks are least willing to date a partner of any race (Yancey, 2009). Asians are most willing to date a partner of any race, but this may be explained by their small group size: Asians may relax their preferences for homophily in response to limited opportunities to meet other Asians.…”

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confidence: 63%

When Does Race Matter? Race, Sex, and Dating at an Elite University

McClintock

2010

J of Marriage and Family

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When Does Race Matter? Race, Sex, and Dating at an Elite University This paper unites quantitative and qualitative data from the College Social Life Survey (n = 732) to describe and explain patterns of racial homophily in undergraduate sexual/romantic relationships at an elite university, a closed social setting. It expands the literature on interracial romantic unions by comparing homophily in hookups (uncommitted sexual interactions), dates, and long-term relationships. Although this population embodies many characteristics associated with greater racial mixing (youth, education, status equality, geographical proximity, racial diversity, independence from family), racial homophily is still strongly evident. Variation in levels of homophily among relationship types and among racial groups is explained by differences in desired homophily, social network segregation, and participation in formal race-based student organizations. Black students are particularly socially isolated.This paper expands the literature on interracial romantic unions to include hookups, a form of uncommitted and spontaneous sexual encounter that may include sexual intercourse, by comparing patterns of homophily in hookups to

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When Does Race Matter? Race, Sex, and Dating at an Elite University

McClintock

2010

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Literature measuring social distance among various racial/ethnic groups has found that non-Black minorities hold higher social positions than Blacks but lower social positions than Whites [12]. Due to the history of enslavement and intense race relations in the U.S., the hierarchical racial/ethnic divide may be upheld most strongly between Blacks and Whites.…”

Section: Intercultural Marriage In the United Statesmentioning

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“…Intercultural dating is a salient and high stakes issue for Latina and Black women attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs) [12]. Nationally, the college student population is about 65% female for Black students and 60% female for Latino/a students, compared to 55% female for White students [18].…”

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“…Their majority presence on most U.S. college campuses affords them the privilege of numerous intragroup dating options, which is much less available to minority students [24]. Yancey [12] argues that it is about much more than opportunities for intragroup dating, and proposes that racial/ethnic mixing, is a group status issue, in which higher status groups are less likely to date lower status groups because affiliation with lower status groups poses challenges to the societal hierarchy that benefits members of higher status groups. Thus, low levels of intercultural dating among White students may be due to a combination of more opportunities for intra versus intercultural dating, uncertainty about disrupting one's present social standing, and inheritance of negative racial/ethnic attitudes and feelings of otherness.…”

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Intercultural Dating at Predominantly White Universities in the United States: The Maintenance and Crossing of Group Borders

Keels

Harris

2014

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Abstract:The increased representation of minority students on the campuses of predominantly White universities in the United States presents increased opportunities for intercultural contact. Studying dating experiences across racial and ethnic lines has been used to determine the existence of a post-racial America. While most previous research has examined general racial/ethnic and gender differences in intercultural college dating experiences, this study analyzes precollege and college-going friendship diversity and skin tone as factors accounting for romantic distance between racial/ethnic groups among a recent cohort of college students. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses were conducted on a 4-year longitudinal sample of 2804 undergraduate students from 24 colleges and universities. Results confirm that White students continue to be the group most likely to engage in intragroup dating relationships, Latino/a students were the most likely to date interculturally, and that Black men were significantly more likely to date interculturally than Black women. For Black students there were significant within group differences in intercultural dating based on skin tone.

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“…A number of teams have explored racial/ethnic preferences in speed and online dating, however, and results across studies suggest that most people report and exhibit less willingness to date inter-racially than intra-racially (e.g., Hwang, 2013;Kurzban & Weeden, 2005;Yancey, 2009). Past that generality, preferences are lessclear.Acrossthreestudies,non-Whiteindividualshadstronger preferences for intraracial partners (Kurzban & Weeden, 2005;Phua&Kaufman,2003;Yancey,2009)although,inanotherstudy, an interaction between race and gender emerged such that women of higher racial status groups (i.e., White) reported the least willingness to date interracially (Hwang, 2013).…”

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Beholder and Beheld: A Multilevel Model of Perceived Sexual Appeal

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When individuals (observers) assess how appealing they find sexual stimuli (targets), which factors matter and to whom? The present study examined how observer and target characteristics interact and impact perceived sexual appeal. Participants were 302 men (206 heterosexual, 96 gay) and 289 women (196 heterosexual, 93 lesbian) between the ages of 18 and 67 years, who viewed 34 photographs of targets of their preferred gender and rated each target for sexual appeal, masculinity-femininity, and estimated age. Participants also rated their own masculinity-femininity. A baseline model indicated that roughly 30 % of the variance in sexual appeal ratings was at the observer level (between observers) and 70 % of the variance was at the target level (within observers). In the final model, five characteristics of the participant observers (gender, sexual orientation, age, race/ethnicity, and self-described masculinity-femininity) and six characteristics of the target photographs (gender, whether the photographs were taken from heterosexual versus gay/lesbian media, race/ethnicity, perceived masculinity-femininity, and estimated age) were independently and interactively related to observer ratings of target sexual appeal. Observers displayed preferences for similar targets in terms of race/ethnicity and masculinity-femininity, while also displaying a general preference for target youth. Variation in the strength of these preferences occurred according to observers' own gender, race/ethnicity, masculinity-femininity, and sexual orientation.

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Crossracial Differences in the Racial Preferences of Potential Dating Partners: A Test of the Alienation of African Americans and Social Dominance Orientation

Cited by 55 publications

References 75 publications

When Does Race Matter? Race, Sex, and Dating at an Elite University

When Does Race Matter? Race, Sex, and Dating at an Elite University

Intercultural Dating at Predominantly White Universities in the United States: The Maintenance and Crossing of Group Borders

Beholder and Beheld: A Multilevel Model of Perceived Sexual Appeal

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