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Thus, inequality in the form of colorism, or the systematic privileging of light skin over darker skin that spans back to colonialism, is likely to explain some of the more favorable treatment afforded to multiracials in online dating.Overall, the existence of a Multiracial Dividend effect complicates previous studies on online dating that suggest a status hierarchy with groups neatly parceled out in order of desirability.

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However, what our research clearly indicate is that there is a qualitatively significant difference between the treatment of self-identified mixed-race online daters and monoracial minority daters, but future research is needed to understand how the operation of this “dividend effect” is experienced by multiracials as well as whether it translates into other social settings in the United States where the distribution of valued resources is of paramount importance.

Celeste Vaughan Curington is a doctoral student in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst.

Her research interests include race and ethnicity, labor migration, and qualitative and quantitative methods. multiracial identity formation and the locational attainment of interracial households in Los Angeles County.

She is currently exploring African gendered migration and subsequent entrance into care economies in Portugal. Her recent work on multiracial identity has appeared in the journals American Sociological Review and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.