Mixed-Race Couples 6

Question 1

What is the final step of assimilation process defined by Gordon?

Answer 1

Intermarriage

Question 2

Classical assimilation theories are sometimes criticized as what?

Answer 2

Ethnocentric; it suggests a natural progression in which immigrants jettison maladaptive cultural repertories and adopt a “better” way of life–the American way.

Question 3

Unlike the situation for white ethnics in the past, we can no longer assume a simple _______ cultural process that ultimately melds diverse racial/ethnic minorities and immigrants with the middle-class, Anglo-American majority.

Answer 3

unilateral (Qian and Lichter 2007)

Question 4

Unlike classical assimilation theory, they suggest that the erosion of social distance between racial/ethnic groups, which culminates in intermarriage, is a __ __, rather than an __________ process involving majority and minority populations.

Answer 4

two-way, asymmetric (Alba and Nee 2003)

Question 5

How do Alba and Nee (2003) define boundary crossing?

Answer 5

Boundary crossing as movement from one group to another without any real changes to the boundary (e.g., movement resulting from upward socioeconomic mobility).