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Marriage Vows and Racial Choices /

"Choosing whom to marry involves more than emotion, as racial politics, cultural mores, and local demographics all shape romantic choices. In Marriage Vows and Racial Choices, sociologist Jessica Vasquez-Tokos explores the decisions of Latinos who marry either within or outside of their racial...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vasquez-Tokos, Jessica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Considering family formation
  • Latino and white intermarriage : preferences and convenience
  • Consequences of Latino and white intermarriage : biculturalism and racial consciousness
  • Cross-racial minority pairings : Latinos intermarried with non-Latino racial minorities
  • Cross-national Latino marriages : racial and gender havens
  • Mixed-generation Mexican-origin marriages : from transnationalism to feminism
  • Intragenerational marriages and racial strategies : racial erasing, racial easing, and constrained cultivation
  • Unpacking marriage : divorce, repartnering, ambivalence, and the search for love
  • Conclusion : negotiated desire
  • Appendix A. Methodology
  • Appendix B. Respondent demographic information: aggregated
  • Appendix C. Respondent demographic information: individualized.