Demographic Outcomes of Ethnic Intermarriage in American History : Italian - Americans Through Four Generations
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I want to offer a new approach to the history of American ethnic intermarriage--to ask new questions and exploit newly available evidence. Intermarriage patterns have always been important in this country, but in present-day America there is a renewed attention to such patterns, for two reasons. First, new waves of immigrants lead observers to ask whether or not the future of American ethnic life will resemble the past, especially in terms of rapid ethnic intermingling. Second, there has been increasing awareness of multiraciality the outcome of unions across racial lines. Such mixed offspring are increasing, slowly between blacks and whites but rapidly between whites and others. Discussion of multiraciality how to define the offspring of such marriages for various purposes--sometimes makes it sound as if we are in a brave new world. It is well to recall, therefore, that multiraciality and multiethnicity are on a continuum conceptually, and not so far apart on that continuum. Consequently, setting multiraciality in the historical context of multiethnicity should be enlightening.1
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