Background: Intermarriage is a leading indicator of racialized relations. Scholarly literature has focused on the United States and shows that black–white intermarriage is especially low within that country. Surprisingly, there are no studies that compare black–white intermarriage across a broad range of countries around the world. Objective: How does black–white intermarriage compare in Brazil, Cuba, France, South Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom circa 2010? Methods: We use odds ratios of endogamy and log-linear analysis of large micro-level datasets for each country. Results: Interracial marriage varies widely across countries. Despite increases in recent decades, US black–white intermarriage levels are the second lowest among the six countries, although they are markedly higher among cohabitors. Intermarriage rates (opposite of endogamy) are high in the Latin American countries, moderate in the European countries, low-moderate in the United States and extremely low in South Africa. Controls for structural factors have minor effects, suggesting that national differences are mostly related to cultural factors. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that national differences are primarily from differences in racial attitudes and tolerance toward intermarriage, specifically the willingness of blacks and whites to cross racial boundaries in marriage. We also find that although the effects of historical laws prohibiting racial intermarriage have waned, they continue to account for especially strong taboos against intermarriage in the United States and especially South Africa. Contribution: This is the first systematic comparison of black–white marriage across a broad set of countries around the world. We find that countries differ widely in the extent of black–white intermarriage.

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全球视角下的黑人与白人通婚（爱德华·泰勒斯、安德烈斯·卡斯特罗、阿尔伯特·埃斯蒂夫著）

背景：异族通婚是种族化关系的主要指标。学术文献主要集中在美国，并表明该国黑人与白人通婚的比例特别低。令人惊讶的是，没有研究比较世界上许多国家的黑人与白人通婚。目标：2010 年左右，巴西、古巴、法国、南非、美国和英国的黑人与白人通婚情况如何？方法：我们使用每个国家的大型微观数据集的内婚比和对数线性分析。结果：不同国家的异族婚姻差异很大。尽管近几十年来有所增加，美国黑人与白人的通婚水平在六个国家中排名倒数第二，尽管同居者的通婚水平明显较高。拉丁美洲国家的通婚率（与同族通婚相反）较高，欧洲国家中等，美国较低，南非极低。对结构性因素的控制影响较小，这表明国家差异主要与文化因素有关。结论：我们的研究结果表明，民族差异主要来自种族态度和对异族通婚的容忍度的差异，特别是黑人和白人在婚姻中跨越种族界限的意愿。我们还发现，尽管禁止种族通婚的历史法律的影响已经减弱，但它们仍然是美国，尤其是南非对通婚的强烈禁忌的原因。贡献：这是对世界上许多国家的黑人与白人婚姻进行的首次系统比较。我们发现，各国黑人与白人通婚的程度存在很大差异。