@article{ref1,
title="Exploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships",
journal="Journal of Social Issues",
year="2009",
author="Bonam, Courtney M. and Shih, Margaret",
volume="65",
number="1",
pages="87-103",
abstract="This article explores the relationship between a heightened awareness of race as a social construct and comfort in interracial relationships across varying levels of intimacy among multiracial and monoracial individuals. Study 1 finds that multiracial individuals express higher levels of comfort in intimate interracial relationships than monoracial White and minority individuals. Study 2 finds that belief in race as a social construction mediates the differences between monoracial and multiracial individuals in their comfort in intimate interracial relationships. Implications of these findings for interracial relationships are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0022-4537",
doi="10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01589.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01589.x"
}