Racial Ethnic Intermarriage

While intercultural and interethnic marriages are on the rise, what is the prevalence, proximity, availability, and acculturation that reflects exogamy within these ethnic groups. Although, intermarriage was unheard of many years ago, it has vastly grown amongst certain races; since the laws against miscegenation had originally emerged. “When people think about racial intermarriages, they generally assume that it’s between blacks and whites, however, this is a misconception” (Jones, ASID, IIDA, IDEC and Phyllis Sloan Allen, 2009, p. 101). This is because a majority of these racial ethnic intermarriages rank lower in Americans and Blacks than any other race where outer marriages are concerned. While there are many factors to the reasoning