The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States

Cruz, Bárbara C; Berson, Michael J.

doi:10.1093/maghis/15.4.80

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“…Critical race psychology (CRP) calls for psychologists to move past White-centering research practices by considering racial power when drawing conclusions from the research. Drawing on CRP, we recommend that researchers engage with the five tenets of Critical Race Theory (see Table 1; Crenshaw, 2010;Crenshaw, et al, 1995;Delgado & Stefancic, 2017) when conducting multiracial research. These tenets acknowledge that racism structures everyday experience within a culture that has promoted racialized ways of existing (Salter et al, 2018).…”

Section: Decentering Whiteness: Critical Race Psychologymentioning

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A review of White‐centering practices in multiracial research in social psychology

Garay

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2021

Social & Personality Psych

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Multiracial people-those whose racial ancestry is comprised of two or more races-have always had a presence in the United States. However, since the recent US Census shift to allow people to identify with multiple racial groups, social psychologists have shown increased interest in multiracial identity. However, we argue multiracial research tends to emphasize the perceptions, thoughts, and interests of White people through White-centering research practices, which reproduces racial inequality. To understand how multiracial research within social psychology has been shaped by White-centering research practices, we reviewed literature in social psychology examining multiraciality. We show that White-centering practices exist within this literature and explore how White-centering research practices lead to misrepresentations of the conclusions that may be drawn from multiracial research, underscoring how these conclusions affirm racial power or Whiteness. We suggest Critical Race Psychology as a possible framework to help dismantle the affirmation of Whiteness in multiracial research.

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Section: Decentering Whiteness: Critical Race Psychologymentioning

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A review of White‐centering practices in multiracial research in social psychology

Garay

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2021

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Many scholars have attempted to answer this question (Breger & Hill, 1998;Chatters, Taylor, & Jayakody, 1994;Cruz & Berson, 2001;Gordon-Reed, 1997;Hibbler & Shinew, 2002;Hodes, 1999;Hughes, 2003;Johnson, 2004;Kalmijn, 1993;Kennedy, 2003;Leslie, 1996;McNamara, Tempenis, & Walton, 1999;Moran, 2001;Rothman, 1998;Storrs, 1997;Wong, 2003).…”

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“…Cruz and Berson (2001) note that "economic exploitation" was the real reason for miscegenation laws (p. 80). Oliver and Wong (2003) also present a similar observation (p. 569).…”

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“…In 1967, the Supreme Court of the United States finally ruled that antimisegenation laws were unconstitutional in the case Loving v. Virginia. Scholars and authors studying interracial marriages or unions are beginning to point to interesting research findings showing different trends in the kinds of unions being formed (Cready & Saenz, 1997;Cretser & Leon, 1982;Cruz & Berson, 2001;Ellinghaus, 2002;Hwang, Saenz, & Aguirre, 1995;Jacobs & Labov, 1998Kalmijn, 1993;Kennedy, 2003;McNamara, Tempenis, & Walton 1999;Moran, 2001;Rogers, 1944;Tucker & Mitchell-Kernan, 1990).…”

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Inter-Ethnic/Interracial Romantic Relationships in the United States: Factors Responsible for the Low Rates of Marriages Between Blacks and Whites

Kaba¹

2011

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This paper examines the status of interracial romantic relationships among non-Black groups and those between Blacks and non-Blacks in the United States. The research shows that, apart from Blacks, inter-ethnic/interracial marriages and other forms of romantic unions have increased substantially by the 21 st Century. For Black Americans, however, the data show that just a very tiny fraction of them are involved in interracial romantic relations, including marriages with Whites and other non-White groups. The paper then goes on to present the factors responsible for this phenomenon.

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“…In addition, nearly one in five romantically involved adolescents (Kreager, 2008;Miller, 2014) and cohabiting adults (Pew Research Center, 2017) are in interracial relationships. The millions of Americans engaging in interracial relationships are collectively contributing to the biracial baby boom (Cruz & Berson, 2001), as the proportion of multiracial infants has ballooned from about 1% of the population in 1970 to 14% in 2015 (Cruz & Berson, 2001;Pew Research Center, 2015).…”

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Biracial Families: Crossing Boundaries, Blending Cultures, and Challenging Racial Ideologies

Miller

2020

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The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

A review of White‐centering practices in multiracial research in social psychology

A review of White‐centering practices in multiracial research in social psychology

Inter-Ethnic/Interracial Romantic Relationships in the United States: Factors Responsible for the Low Rates of Marriages Between Blacks and Whites

Biracial Families: Crossing Boundaries, Blending Cultures, and Challenging Racial Ideologies

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