The history of interracial marriages in the 1930s

There have been several cases of Chinese merchants and laborers marrying black African women as many Chinese workers were employed to build railways and other infrastructural projects in Africa. The growth in interracial marriages is not uniform. Retrieved 22 October Other social scientists argue that the sex imbalance is associated with the legacy of slavery. Sex and the Citizen: United Kingdom Census Over time, although there were more Creole marriages with Chinese, there was a growth of Indian marriages with Chinese and it was reported that "It is not an uncommon thing to find a cooly woman living with a Chinaman as his wife, and in one or two instances the woman has accompanied her reputed husband to China.

Women of all the races which were studied revealed a strong preference for men of their own race for marriage, with the caveat that East Asian women only discriminated against Black and Hispanic men, and not against White men. Racial endogamy is significantly stronger among recent immigrants. Retrieved 11 April The small number of ethnic minority women in Britain were often outnumbered by "half-caste Indian" daughters born from white mothers and Indian fathers although mixed race families were still very unusual in Britain at this time. Women in World History: Yao Yonggang et al.

Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 1 illustrated ed. In Lu Chun was appointed as governor of Canton, and was disgusted to find the Chinese living with foreigners and intermarrying. Many Chinese men married British women while others remained single, possibly supporting a wife and family back home in China. Community matters in Xinjiang, —