Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States

Stanley O. Gaines, Jr. is Senior Lecturer of Psychology at Brunel University London, UK.

"Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States offers a unique perspective on the dispositional factors that predict people’s likelihood of marrying interethnically. Given the growing number of interethnic marriages in the United States and other countries, this book will further social scientists’ understanding of what motivates individuals to enter (or avoid) such marriages, and will contribute to scholarship on diversity and close relationships more generally."--Kimberly Rios, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Experimental Training Ohio University, USA

• 1. Social Behaviorism Perspectives on Interethnic Marriage in the U.S. 2. The Self as Implicated in Interethnic Marriage 3. Identity as Implicated in Interethnic Marriage 4. Personal and Social Identities as Implicated in Interethnic Marriage 5. Gender and Ethnic Identities as Implicated in Interethnic Marriage 6. Racial and Cultural Identities as Implicated in Interethnic Marriage 7. Religious and National Identities as Implicated in Interethnic Marriage 8. Taking Stock of the Literature on Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States