Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Exogamy has long been used as a measure for determining the level of acceptability between ethnic and racial groups. This study will focus on exogamy between Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and the largest national groups on the Island, specifically, Americans, Europeans, Cubans, Dominicans, Other Latin Americans, and Others. The data for Puerto Rico the analysis comes from the 1990 5 percent Public Use Micro Data Sample. A multinominal logistic regression was conducted to determine the odds a Puerto Rican will have to form or will form an exogamous relationship with either a European American, an African American, other racial non-Hispanic groups, Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, other Hispanics, and those with a generic Hispanic or Latino identity. Intermarriage that occurs in the island of Puerto Rico, the likelihood of exogamy is closely linked to the person’s birthplace and to the parent’s birthplace. Puerto Ricans are therefore much more likely to marry or cohabitate with another Puerto Rican born on the island versus all other possible group combination. In some cases particularly with Cubans, and Dominicans being a Puerto Rican born outside of Puerto Rico increases the likelihood of exogamy considerably.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Most contemporary Thai Americans are women, who are overwhelmingly married to non-Thai men. This has continued to be the case even after the direct military link between the United States and Thailand ended, even though the Thai American population is much larger than in the past. In this study, we look at exogamy among Thai Americans using U.S. Census data drawn from the IPUMS project. We ask: (1) What are the predictors of exogamy among Thai Americans? (2) How can we account for the high rates of exogamy among Thai American women, relative to Thai American men? (3) How have the predictors of exogamy and the apparent characteristics of women’s exogamy changed? Our results are consistent with the argument that much of Thai American exogamy is historically rooted in the military connection between the United States and Thailand, and that the particularly high rate of exogamy among Thai American women is historically linked to this military connection. However, while Thai women have continued to show high rates of exogamy, there is evidence that this exogamy has been “demilitarized.”