Puerto Rican intermarriages : the intersectionality of race, gender, class and space

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Puerto Ricans have an intermarriage rate of 38.5 percent, the highest among Mexican, Cubans, Dominicans, European Americans, and African Americans in the United States. What govern the process of Puerto Rican intermarriage? Who do Puerto Rican intermarry with? And, do these intermarriages affect Puerto Rican ethnic identity? Traditional theories of intermarriage use a one dimensional explanation for intermarriages and for many posit an eventual ethnic identity transition. I propose the use of an intersectionality paradigm that incorporates a multidimensional approach, specifically race, gender, class, and space to explain Puerto Rican intermarriage and to test Puerto Rican ethnic identity transformation through the process of intermarriage by measuring the ethnic identity options of the natural children of Puerto Ricans in mixed relationships. I analyze this multidimensional approach by creating one dataset of Puerto Ricans and their spouses and a second dataset of the children of inte

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