How many melting pots? Intermarriage, pan ethnicity, and the black/non-black divide in the United States

Journal of Comparative Family Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-232

  Fu, Vincent Kang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIGION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249939709     PISSN: 00472328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jcfs.38.2.215     Document Type: Article

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