Immigration Reform and the Browning of America: Tensions, Conflicts and Community Instability in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Johnson, James H.; Farrell, Walter C.; Guinn, Chandra

doi:10.1177/019791839703100411

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“…Among US-born high school dropouts, for example, the odds of crossing the White-Hispanic boundary in first marriage are approximately 5 times the odds of crossing the Black-Hispanic boundary [0.087/0.016 ≈ 5]. This result reaffirms past claims that Whites are perceived as the most desirable out-group partners (Bany et al, 2014; Johnson et al, 1997). …”

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confidence: 69%

“…Notwithstanding secular improvements in attitudes toward interracial couples, there remains considerable resistance to mixed-race unions, with the strongest opposition toward those involving Black partners and least resistance toward those involving White partners (Bany et al, 2014; Johnson et al, 1997; Wang et al, 2012). A recent report by the Pew Research Center, for example, reports that two-thirds of US adults said that they would be “okay” if their family members dated a Black person; however, 81 and 74 percent of US adults, respectively, said that they would be if their family members dated a White and Hispanic person (Wang et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Boundary crossing in first marriage and remarriage

Choi

Tienda

2017

Social Science Research

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Owing to secular increases in divorce rates, remarriage has become a prevalent feature of American family life; yet, research about mate selection behavior in higher order marriages remains limited. Using log-linear methods to recent data from the 2008–2014 American Community Survey, we compare racial and ethnic sorting behavior in first and subsequent marriages. The two most frequently crossed boundaries – those involving White-Asian and White-Hispanic couples – are more permeable in remarriages than in first marriages. Boundaries that are crossed with less frequency – those between minority groups and the White-Black boundary-are less permeable in remarriages than in first marriages. Collectively, these findings suggest that racial and ethnic sorting processes in remarriage may reify existing social distances between pan-ethnic groups. Racial and ethnic variations in how the relative permeability of boundary changes between first and higher-order marriages underscore the importance of considering a broad array of interracial pairings when assessing the ways in which changes in family structure and marital sorting behavior promote integration.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boundary crossing in first marriage and remarriage

Choi

Tienda

2017

Social Science Research

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“…Similar accounts come from the traditional gateway areas of Los Angeles and Miami, where black-to-brown residential transition has brought economic and political shifts and strains (Johnson, Farrell, and Guinn 1997; Vaca 2004). But aside from these local stories, is there systematic evidence of a widespread tendency for local Hispanic presence or influx to produce anti-Hispanic or anti-immigrant sentiment among blacks, perhaps mediated by perceived competition and threat?…”

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confidence: 88%

The impact of Hispanic population growth on the outlook of African Americans

Taylor¹,

Schroeder²

2010

Social Science Research

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We know too little about the effects of immigration on black Americans. If prior research yields mixed evidence about immigration’s consequences for the objective well-being of African Americans, it is silent about effects of immigration on blacks’ subjective well-being. To fill that void, this paper assesses the impact of the expanding Hispanic population on black Americans from a social psychological perspective. We ask whether blacks’ self-reported distress, social distrust, or attitudes toward Hispanics and immigrants are affected by the size of the local Hispanic population or by the percentage growth in local Hispanic residents. Answers come from responses of non-Hispanic black participants in the 1998–2002 General Social Surveys, linked to 1990 and 2000 census data. Contrary to pessimistic claims, most social psychological outcomes, including measures of economic distress, manifest no impact of local Hispanic numbers. The four exceptions, significant effects of local Hispanic population share or percentage growth evenly split in valence, underscore the complexity of recent immigration’s effects on African Americans.

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“…In recent research, blacks express the strongest preferences for neighborhoods containing large concentrations of own-race neighbors (Clark 2009; Krysan and Bader 2007) and an increasing reluctance to be the extreme numerical minority in mostly white neighborhoods (Krysan and Farley 2002). Many black survey respondents also express somewhat negative attitudes toward Latinos and Hispanics (Charles 2006), and ethnographic research often points to black animosity toward other minority groups settling in predominantly black neighborhoods (Johnson, Farrell, and Guinn 1999; Wilson and Taub 2006). However, in comparison to whites, blacks express considerably greater tolerance for integration, preferring neighborhoods with substantially more non-black neighbors than those occupied by the typical black household (Charles 2006; Krysan and Bader 2007; Krysan and Farley 2002).…”

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Neighborhood Diversity, Metropolitan Constraints, and Household Migration

Pais²,

2012

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Focusing on micro-level processes of residential segregation, this analysis combines data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with contextual information from three censuses and several other sources to examine patterns of residential mobility between neighborhoods populated by different combinations of racial and ethnic groups. We find that despite the emergence of multiethnic neighborhoods, stratified mobility dynamics continue to dominate, with relatively few black or white households moving into neighborhoods that could be considered multiethnic. However, we also find that the tendency for white and black households to move between neighborhoods dominated by their own group varies significantly across metropolitan areas. Black and white households’ mobility into more integrated neighborhoods is shaped substantially by demographic, economic, political, and spatial features of the broader metropolitan area. Metropolitan-area racial composition, the stock of new housing, residential separation of black and white households, poverty rates, and functional specialization emerge as particularly important predictors. These macro-level effects reflect opportunities for intergroup residential contact as well as structural forces that maintain residential segregation.

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Immigration Reform and the Browning of America: Tensions, Conflicts and Community Instability in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Cited by 62 publications

References 18 publications

Boundary crossing in first marriage and remarriage

Boundary crossing in first marriage and remarriage

The impact of Hispanic population growth on the outlook of African Americans

Neighborhood Diversity, Metropolitan Constraints, and Household Migration

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