Professional journals on interracial marriages

Article PubReader ePub beta PDF 62K Citation. The authors examined how demographic diversity and corporate culture interact to influence interaction among members, the salience of social categories, and group creativity, productivity, and conflict in simulated organizations. In addition, although cross-race friendships were found to be less intimate, they were still equally characterized by helping behaviors, emotional security, and positive affections. Hunter and Elias examined the social competence and multicultural sensitivity of 5 th graders who had no or low quality interracial friendships or high quality interracial friendships. Building a successful intermarriage between religions, social classes, ethnic groups and races. What are the characteristics of adult's cross-race friendships?

Nevertheless, the colonial regimes that developed in New Zealand and Victoria shaped these women's lives along sharply divergent paths. That same year in the country town of Bairnsdale in the British colony of Victoria, an Aboriginal woman named Bessy Cameron, married to an Aboriginal man of mixed descent, died in poverty having struggled against the odds to keep her family housed and fed. Cott points out, marriage is a public institution regulated both by social mores and law. Lessons learned from cooperative learning programs.

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 16, Nonracial factors played a much larger role in spouse selection for the interracially married sample than racial factors. View freely available titles: The education has to be presented in such a manner that is easily understood by children. Expectations and Realities, 51, 57

For children, the positive effects appear to span beyond intergroup attitudes to social and achievement domains. The black female body: Journal of Black Studies, 29, Intertextual influence and the inheritance of virtue in Julia C. Among the female students, interracial friendships were associated with greater social competence more sociable, less aggressive and multicultural sensitivity increased minority acceptance, lowered desire for social distance from other ethnic groups, more diverse social networks. And he adds that whites are also more likely to be racially isolated than people of color—a notion sociologists lump under the term "propinquity," which describes the tendency for people to work better or bond with those geographically near them. URL last checked 4 May