Collaborative Research: The Mixed-Race Household in Residential Space: Neighborhood Context, Segregation, and Multiracial Identities, 1990-2000

1992年，跨种族婚姻（不包括同一种族的拉丁美洲人和非拉丁美洲人之间的婚姻）占全国婚姻的2.2%，高于1960年的0.4%。 在20世纪90年代剩下的几年里，失业率翻了一番多，2000年达到5.2%。 在此背景下，本项目调查了混血夫妇的社区地理。 关于美国城市居住隔离的大量文献调查了种族和族裔群体成员的邻里选择和约束问题，但尚未从理论或经验上研究混血伴侣的居住选择。 该项目旨在回答一些基本的理论和经验问题。 我们目前所理解的产生和维持种族隔离的过程是否适用于混血家庭？ 混血家庭生活在种族隔离或不同的社区吗？ 他们是否生活在由特定种族/民族群体主导的社区？ 这是否取决于男性伴侣或女性伴侣的种族？ 伴侣的社会阶层地位会影响他们的居住选择吗？ 这些最初的步骤，在混合种族家庭的居住地理调查为我们设置了阶段，以解决两个衍生问题。 混合种族伴侣的增加如何影响社区的居住隔离水平？ 可能是由于社区外的种族接触（如在大学或工作中）导致的混血伴侣关系的增加降低了社区内的居住隔离水平。 混血儿夫妇的居住地选择是否会影响他们在种族/民族上识别他们的多种族孩子的方式？ 居住在一个由单一种族/族裔群体主导的社区可能会鼓励混血夫妇将其子女视为该群体的成员。 这个项目将调查在一系列种族认同的地方，混血夫妇为他们的多种族孩子所做的种族/民族认同选择。这个项目将提供1990年和2000年混血家庭的邻里地理的第一个一瞥。 迄今为止，对这些地区进行调查的能力有限，因为公开的人口普查数据没有提供关于邻里规模的家庭结构的信息。 最近发布的限制访问数据从1990年和2000年人口普查的长期形式提供了这样的数据，使我们能够大大推进我们的种族隔离，城市社会地理的理解，并在混合种族家庭的种族身份的建设。

Marriage across racial lines, excluding unions between Latinos and non-Latinos of the same race, nationally accounted for 2.2 percent of marriages in 1992, up from 0.4 percent in 1960. Rates more than doubled in the remaining years of the 1990s to 5.2 percent in 2000. Against this backdrop, this project investigates the neighborhood geographies of mixed-race couples. The extensive literature on US urban residential segregation that investigates issues of neighborhood choice and constraint for members of racial and ethnic groups has yet to examine, theoretically or empirically, the residential choices of mixed-race partners. This project seeks to answer a number of basic theoretical and empirical questions. Do the processes that generate and sustain segregation, as we currently understand them, apply to mixed-race households? Do mixed-race families live in segregated or diverse neighborhoods? Do they live in neighborhoods dominated by a particular race/ethnic group? Does this depend on the race of the male partner or the female partner? Do the social class positions of the partners affect the couple's residential choices? These initial steps in the investigation of the residential geography of mixed-race households set the stage for us to address two derivative questions. How does the increase in mixed-race partnering affect levels of residential segregation in neighborhoods? It may be that the rise in mixed-race partnerships due to interracial contact outside neighborhoods (such as at college or work) drives down levels of residential segregation within neighborhoods. Do the residential choices of mixed-race couples have implications for the way they racially/ethnically identify their multiracial children? Residence in a neighborhood dominated by a single racial/ethnic group may encourage mixed-race couples to identify their children as members of that group. This project will investigate the racial/ethnic identification choices that mixed-race couples make for their multiracial children across an array of racially identified places.This project will provide the first glimpse of the neighborhood geographies of mixed-race households in both 1990 and 2000. The ability to investigate these geographies has been limited to date because publicly available census data provide no information on household structure at neighborhood scales. Recently released restricted access data from the long forms of the 1990 and 2000 Censuses provide such data, allowing us to advance significantly our understanding of racial segregation, urban social geographies, and the construction of racial identity in mixed-race families.