Joan Walsh has a nice piece over at Salon on race-mixing. You can read it if you watch a commercial. Many of her questions wouldn’t be left hanging in the air if she was open to ideas of human biodiversity, but you can fill in the blanks….
Razib updates: Check out this site that notes the race of the wives of 2001 NBA all-stars, they are mostly African-American. So I think we can rule out income is the prime determinant of why blacks making over $100,000 marry whites as often as other blacks. Here are the players married to non-blacks:
Jason Kidd, Married to Arabic-Indian woman
Kobe Byrant, Married to Caucasian
Tim Duncan, Married to Caucasian
Karl Malone, Married to Filippino woman
David Robinson, Married to Hispanic woman
Kidd is biracial, but I’ve seen his father in an interview, and he is probably half-white by ancestry, so kid is only 1/4 black (Also, his wife is Lebanese from what I know, but she is rather dark-skinned [darker than Kidd], so it is not implausible that she is part Indian, but it might just be the website not making a distinction between the two groups). Duncan is rather light-skinned. David Robinson & Kobe Bryant are both from middle-class homes. Robinson scored over a 1300 (before recentering to 1000 in 1996!) on his SAT and receieved a math degree from the Naval Academy. Kobe scored an 1150 (the average African-American score is ~850-860) and has a cosmopolitan upbringing (lots of time in Europe). And Karl Malone is a self-identifying “black redneck.” I think we can conclude that the NBA players that married non-African-Americans are outliers….
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