Artifact Highlights. 1  Harriet Tubman Hymn Book (1876) 2  Jim Crow Railroad car (1920) 3  Rosa Park's Dress (1955) 4  Chuck Berryâs Cadillac (1973) 5  Marian Anderson Ensembel (1939) 6  Tuskegee Airmen Trainer Plane, an open-cockpit PT-13 Stearman (1944)
Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as marrying up) is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person marrying another of higher caste or social status than themselves. The antonym hypogamy refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status.
Forms of hypergamy have been practiced throughout history, including in India, modern China and imperial China, ancient Greece, the Ottoman Empire and feudal Europe.