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4) US Black pairings with non-whites excluded because the source binned them into an aggregated "other" category

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National racial exogamy asymmetry controlling for population size.

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Amazon's 100 top-selling interracial romance novels (2026):

38 are WM/Black Female
20 are WM/Asian Female
19 are WM/WW (Misclassified, Italian/Russian)
9 are WM/Lat Female
4 are WM/Indian F
6 are both non-White
1 was gay
1 was AM/Black female
1 was AM/White female

Cont...🧵

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3) Uses marriage and cohabitation data, not parentage of newborns. Offspring would be more salient to the conversation and relying on marriage disadvantages BM due to higher propensity for extramarital children, and lower propensity to marry partners.

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The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War
by Karen Umemoto

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Colonial Conscripts
The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960

By Myron Echenberg (1991)

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Undesirable
Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952
Jennifer Anne Boittin (2022)

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Britain’s ‘brown babies’: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War, by Lucy Bland

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Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History Paperback, by Martha Hodes

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White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (1997)
Maratha Hodes

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Fighting For Britain: African Soldiers In The Second World War (2017)
David Killingray and Martin Plaut

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Guardians of Empire
The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers, C.1700-1964
David Killingray

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All Askaris are Family Men
by T Parsons

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Before Color Prejudice - The Ancient View of Blacks (1983)

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The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire
Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan
(2016)

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Socialism Goes Global
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation
(2022)