Mixed-Race Couples 15

Question 1

What effect does household racial mixing have on neighborhood-level segregation?

Answer 1

Our analysis of U.S. Census data shows that those who live in single-race households, who constitute the bulk of the population, are more segregated than indicated by measures of total population segregation. Without mixed-race households, dissimilarity measures of segregation between Whites and Blacks and Whites and Latinos would be higher by nontrivial quantities. (Ellis et al. 2012)

Question 2

What is borderism?

Answer 2

Boderism is a form of discrimination faced by those who cross the color line or attempt to claim membership in more than one group. The person must be punished to maintain the essentialist color line. (Dalmage 2000)

Question 3

What is border patrolling?

Answer 3

Discrimination that comes from both sides when a person crosses the color line. (Dalmage 2000)

Question 4

What is rebound racism?

Answer 4

Racism faced by interracially married whites or white looking members of interracial families. (Dalmage 2000)

Question 5

What is intensified racism?

Answer 5

Racism faced by interracially married blacks, it is stronger because they have dared to cross the color line. (Dalmage 2000)