Gender and the Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Attainment of Black-White Couples Ryan Gabriel 1 Published online: 15 February 2018 # Population Association of America 2018 Abstract Including black-white couples in the study of residential stratification accen- tuates gendered power disparities within couples that favor men over women, which allows for the analysis of whether the race of male partners in black-white couples is associated with the racial and ethnic composition of their neighborhoods. I investigate this by combining longitudinal data between 1985 and 2015 from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics linked to neighborhood- and metropolitan-level data compiled from four censuses. Using these data, I assess the mobility of black male–white female and white male–black female couples out of and into neighborhoods defined respectively by their levels of whites, blacks, and ethnoracial diversity. My results show that the race of the male partner in black-white couples tends to align with the racial and ethnic composition of the neighborhoods where these couples reside. This finding highlights that the racial hierarchy within the United States affects the residential mobility and attainment of black-white couples, but its influence is conditioned by the race and gender composition of these couples. Keywords Mixed-race couples . Gender . Residential mobility . Neighborhoods Introduction Throughout U.S. history, legal and extralegal proscriptions have surrounded black- white coupling (Romano 2003:39–42, 128). However, with the end of anti- miscegenation laws in 1967 with the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia,a broader softening of public sentiment toward black-white unions has emerged (Bialik Demography (2018) 55:459–484 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0648-9 Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018- 0648-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Ryan Gabriel ryangabriel@byu.edu 1 Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2033 JFSB, Provo UT 84602, USA Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article-pdf/55/2/459/840292/459gabriel.pdf by guest on 13 June 2022