Gendered racial exclusion among white internet daters

Feliciano, Cynthia; Robnett, Belinda; Komaie, Golnaz

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.09.004

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“…Research on online dating allows for an examination of who approaches and rejects whom during the dating process [55,56]. Online dating enables users to indicate the racial/ethnic preference of potential matches with little or no social consequences, thereby increasing the likelihood that these revealed preferences indicate true racial/ethnic preferences in dating.…”

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“…Additionally, when no racial/ethnic preferences are stated, preferences can be inferred from the likelihood of interacting with potential matches with various racial/ethnic characteristics. Focusing on the stated preferences of White men and Black women, Black women were more likely to include White men as possible matches than White men were to include them [55]. Next, the examination of behaviors (initiating contact, and responding or not to emails) show that online daters without stated racial/ethnic preferences exhibit racial/ethnic biases in their behaviors [56].…”

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

Keels

Harris

2014

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“…Using Yahoo personal ads, one study shows that black, Hispanic, and Asian straight men are more likely than white men to have a racial preference for a partner ðPhua and Kaufman 2003Þ. Using data from the same source, a study comparing white men and women dat-ers shows that white women were most likely to exclude Asian men from their dating preferences while white men were most likely to exclude black women ðFeliciano, Robnett, and Komaie 2009;Robnett and Feliciano 2011Þ. Another study shows that Hispanic daters are more open to dating either whites or blacks than either group is to date one another ðFeliciano, Lee, and Robnett 2011Þ. Finally, profile data from match.com show that older cohorts are less willing to date anyone outside their racial group except whites.…”

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Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education

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Lundquist²

2013

American Journal of Sociology

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In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does not mediate the observed racial preferences among white men and white women. White men and white women with a college degree are more likely to contact and to respond to white daters without a college degree than they are to black daters with a college degree.

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“…Men tend to have generally more prejudices towards outgroup members than women (e.g., Pratto, Sidanius, & Levin, 2006), which might be accompanied by more negative attitudes towards intergroup marriages. However, it is difficult to make an unequivocal prediction on gender differences in the attitude towards dating members of other ethnic groups.For example, a study by Tucker and Mitchell-Kernan (1995) in California found that Black, White and Latino men had considerably more often than women from these groups engaged in interethnic dating (see also Feliciano, Robnett, & Komaie, 2009 …”

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My Parents Know Best: No Mating With Members From Other Ethnic Groups

Buunk

2015

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This study examined the opposition against out-group mating and the attitude towards parental influence on mate choice among 107 Dutch, 69 Moroccan, and 69 Turkish participants aged between 15 and 25. The level of preferred parental influence on mate choice was considerably higher among the Turks and Moroccans than among the Dutch, but females in both ethnic groups were less in favor of parental influence on mate choice than males were. Overall, males showed a higher opposition against interethnic dating than females did, and the Turks showed a higher level of opposition to interethnic mating than both the Moroccans and the Dutch. In addition, the effect of opposition against interethnic mating on preferred parental influence on mate choice was especially pronounced among the Turks, somewhat less so among the Moroccans, and least strong among the Dutch. Especially young males with a Turkish and Moroccan background seem to hold on to the values of the cultures they come from, and particularly Turkish immigrants seem keen on keeping the cohesion of their ethnic group intact by opposing interethnic dating, and by favoring parental influence on mate choice as a way to achieve this goal.

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Gendered racial exclusion among white internet daters

Cited by 164 publications

References 49 publications

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

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

Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education

My Parents Know Best: No Mating With Members From Other Ethnic Groups

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