AAS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Panethnicity, Exogamy, Endogamy

• School: CSUN
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAS 100
• Professor: Eunai Shrake

Document Summary

Principles of marriage: exogamy: must marry outside one"s group (incest is taboo - certain relatives are excluded from marital partners, endogamy: must marry within one"s group (compatibility in age, race/ethnicity, class, religion, propinquity: geographic proximity. Patterns of marriage: in-marriage (intra-ethnic marriage): picture brides, international in-marriage, out-marriage (inter-marriage, inter-ethnic marriage (within the same racial [panasian] group, inter-racial marriage (outside racial group) Aversion to asian partriarchy: ses: professionals are slightly more intermarry, geographic location & community population size (absence or existence of ethnic enclaves), (heterogeneity. & intermarriage hypothesis: social / racial climate, permeability of ethnic boundaries (social acceptability, valuation: worth and esteem placed on a racial / ethnic, sexual / racial imagery: portrayals of sexuality of racial group groups. Growing aa population & its geographic concentration (available marital partner pool: heterogeneity and intermarriage hypothesis. Growing racial consciousness feelings of shared cultural experience feelings of shared identity (pan-ethnicity) Quapa: war bride act (1945: non-asian, 1946: include asian spouses)