Black women, interracial dating, and marriage: What's love got to do with it? (Blog)
Black women, interracial dating, and marriage: What's love got to do with it? (Blog)
- November 5, 2013
- Research by Cynthia Feliciano, Chicano/Latino studies and sociology associate professor, and Belinda Robnett-Olsen, sociology professor, is featured in The Huffington Post November 5, 2013
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From the Huffington Post:
White women are less willing than white men to date outside of their racial group,
but heavier-set white women are more willing to date black men, because, researchers
Cynthia Feliciano, Belinda Robnett, and Golnaz Komaie of UC Irvine posit, of "racial-beauty
exchange theory" -- the notion that a white woman who is less attractive by the measure
of dominant Euro-American beauty standards is willing to "trade down" on the racial
hierarchy by dating a black man. By the same token, black men who date white women
are "trading up" on the American racial hierarchy.
For the full story, please visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tiya-miles/interracial-dating-and-marriage....
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