Interview: Interracial Dating

Below is an excerpt from a new interview with me, by Lauren Ironmonger, published on Sydney Morning Herald. It covers Interracial dating in Australia.

Sociologist Dr Zuleyka Zevallos says it’s “still the norm that most marry within their race”, despite more than 200 years of migration since colonisation.

“When you look at the out-marriage rates, very few second-generation migrants will marry outside their race.” If they do, she adds, people are more likely to marry a person from a similar ethnic or racial group.

“It’s not about exposure or education, but because of social forces and this sense of difference,” she says […]

“The media reproduces existing racial hierarchies, so stories are still centred on whiteness,” even when we do see interracial couples, explains Zevallos.

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