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Connections or Color?

Predicting Colorblindness among Blacks

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Color Struck

Part of the book series: Teaching Race and Ethnicity ((RACE))

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As interracial relationships become less taboo in the United States in the 21st century, the number of interracial relationships has increased. Intermarriage has more than doubled from 1980 (6.7%) to 2010 (15%) (Wang, 2012). Among newlyweds in 2010, 17% of Blacks married someone of a different race (Wang, 2012).

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    Vanessa Gonlin

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    Lori Latrice Martin

  2. University at Albany, USA

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  3. State University of New York, USA

    Hayward Derrick Horton

  4. University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

    Cedric Herring

  5. Texas A&M University, USA

    Verna M. Keith

  6. North Carolina State University, USA

    Melvin Thomas

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Gonlin, V. (2017). Connections or Color?. In: Martin, L.L., Horton, H.D., Herring, C., Keith, V.M., Thomas, M. (eds) Color Struck. Teaching Race and Ethnicity. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-110-0_4

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