Patterns of Racial-Ethnic Exclusion by Internet Daters

Robnett, Belinda; Feliciano, Cynthia

doi:10.1353/sof.2011.0008

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“…The Internet has its own forms of racial segregation (Hargittai 2008), and the literature on online dating shows that preferences exist for mates and partners who share a respondent's race and religion (Hitch, Hortaçsu, and Ariely 2010;Robnett and Feliciano 2011). The Internet has its own forms of racial segregation (Hargittai 2008), and the literature on online dating shows that preferences exist for mates and partners who share a respondent's race and religion (Hitch, Hortaçsu, and Ariely 2010;Robnett and Feliciano 2011).…”

Section: The Internet Neighborhood and Racementioning

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Searching for a Mate

2012

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This article explores how the efficiency of Internet search is changing the way Americans find romantic partners. We use a new data source, the How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey. Results show that for 60 years, family and grade school have been steadily declining in their influence over the dating market. In the past 15 years, the rise of the Internet has partly displaced not only family and school, but also neighborhood, friends, and the workplace as venues for meeting partners. The Internet increasingly allows Americans to meet and form relationships with perfect strangers, that is, people with whom they had no previous social tie. Individuals who face a thin market for potential partners, such as gays, lesbians, and middle-aged heterosexuals, are especially likely to meet partners online. One result of the increasing importance of the Internet in meeting partners is that adults with Internet access at home are substantially more likely to have partners, even after controlling for other factors. Partnership rate has increased during the Internet era (consistent with Internet efficiency of search) for same-sex couples, but the heterosexual partnership rate has been flat.

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Section: The Internet Neighborhood and Racementioning

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“…Our focus on multiraciality in online dating builds from recent research on gendered and racial discrimination in online dating websites (Feliciano, Lee, and Robnett 2011;Feliciano, Robnett, and Komaie 2009;Ariely 2012a, 2012b;Lewis 2013;Lin and Lundquist 2013;Lundquist and Lin 2015;Skopek, Schulz, and Blossfeld 2010). Robnett and Feliciano (2011) find that racial exclusion in online dating is gendered, with both Asian men and Black women experiencing the highest rates of rejection. Robnett and Feliciano (2011) find that racial exclusion in online dating is gendered, with both Asian men and Black women experiencing the highest rates of rejection.…”

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Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace

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The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent, multiracial in-betweenness, White equivalence, and what we call a multiracial dividend effect. We find no evidence for the operation of hypodescent. Asian-White daters, in particular, are afforded a heightened status, and Black-White multiracials are treated as an in-between group. For a few specific multiracial gender groups, we find evidence for a dividend effect, where multiracial men and women are preferred above all other groups, including Whites.

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“…In a study by Robnett and Feliciano (2011) "While limited research has focused on the primary structural assimilation of Middle Easterners or East Indians, recent studies argue that similar to the inclusion of European immigrant groups, the boundaries of 'whiteness' are extending to include Latinos and Asians, but remain closed to blacks... Evidence for this thesis is found in both the greater acceptance by whites of Latinos and Asians than blacks, and also the greater acceptance of whites than blacks by Latinos and Asians.…”

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“…According to the study of Robnett and Feliciano (2011) on the preferences of various racial and cultural groups in the United States on their selection of potential mates on an internet dating website, 76.5% of Black women (567 sample size) exclude White men, 92.24% exclude Asian men, 63.14% exclude Latino men. Also 45% of Black women said they prefer their own race.…”

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Black Americans and Interracial Marriage: A Focus on Black Women

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2012

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This paper claims that although there has been a significant increase in the number of scholarly publications on interracial marriages in the United States in recent decades, most of these publications tend to focus on the small but visible increase in marriages, co-habitations and dating; how Whites or European Gentile Americans are gradually becoming accepting of these relationships; the factors that are causing non-Blacks to "reject" Blacks; and specifically factors that are causing White men and other non-Black men to "reject" Black women. As a result, the paper attempts to contribute to this topic by focusing on an important phenomenon-that it could actually be Black women who are turning down non-Black men. The paper presents eight factors that may be causing Black women to turn down interracial romantic relationship requests from non-Black men.

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Patterns of Racial-Ethnic Exclusion by Internet Daters

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