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Sociology Mind 2012. Vol.2, No.4, 407-427 Published Online October 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/sm) /10.4236/sm.2012.24054 Black Americans and Interracial Marriage: A Focus on Black Women Amadu Jacky Kaba Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA Email: Amadu.Kaba@ Received May 20th th th , 2012; revised June 18 , 2012; accepted June 27 , 2012 This paper claims that although there has been a significant increase in the number of scholarly publica- tions on interracial marriages in the United States in recent decades, most of these publications tend to focus on the small but visible increase in marriages, co-habitations and dating; how Whites or European Gentile Americans are gradually becoming accepting of these relationships; the factors that are causing non-Blacks to “reject” Blacks; and specifically factors that are causing White men and other non-Black men to “reject” Black women. As a result, the paper attempts to contribute to this topic by focusing on an important phenomenon—that it could actually be Black women who are turning down non-Black men. The paper presents eight factors that may be causing Black women to turn down interracial romantic rela- tionship requests from non-Black men. Keywords : Black American Women; Interracial Marriage; Economics; Educ