Mixed Race Studies

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  • Evidence for Hypodescent and Racial Hierarchy in the Perception of Biracial Individuals

    Evidence for Hypodescent and Racial Hierarchy in the Perception of Biracial Individuals SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Arnold K. Ho Harvard University Daniel T. Levin Vanderbilt University Jim Sidanius, Professor Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Mahzarin…

  • A Multidimensional Framework for Examining Racial Identity across Different Biracial Groups

    A Multidimensional Framework for Examining Racial Identity across Different Biracial Groups SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Evelina Lou York University Richard N. Lalonde York University Carlos Wilson York University Recent research has adopted a multidimensional view initially proposed by Rockquemore…

  • Natural Ambiguities? Perceptions of Multiracial Individuals by Monoracial Perceivers

    Natural Ambiguities? Perceptions of Multiracial Individuals by Monoracial Perceivers SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Jacqueline Chen University of California, Santa Barbara David Hamilton, Professor of Psychology University of Californi, Santa Barbara Understanding Multiracial person perception is becoming increasingly important in…

  • The motivational dynamics of social memory: Identification with a mixed-race group replaces own-race bias with own-group bias

    The motivational dynamics of social memory: Identification with a mixed-race group replaces own-race bias with own-group bias SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Jay Van Bavel New York University Rachel O’Connor The Ohio State University William Cunningham The Ohio State University…

  • Self-Perceived Minority Prototypicality and Identification in Mixed Race Individuals: Implications for Self-Esteem and Affirmative Action

    Self-Perceived Minority Prototypicality and Identification in Mixed Race Individuals: Implications for Self-Esteem and Affirmative Action SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada   Jessica J. Good, Assistant Professor of Psychology Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina George F. Chavez Department of Psychology Rutgers…

  • How Understanding Interracial Families Contributes to Our Understanding of Race and Family

    How Understanding Interracial Families Contributes to Our Understanding of Race and Family Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-11 22 pages Jessica Mills In family sociology, racial differences have long been viewed as a defining feature of family life. Yet, the treatment of the…

  • Assimilating Blackness?: Multiple-Race Identification and African American Mate Selection

    Assimilating Blackness?: Multiple-Race Identification and African American Mate Selection Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, CA 2004-08-14 23 pages Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University I investigate the influence…

  • Race, Multirace, and Racial Heterogeneity of Friends

    Race, Multirace, and Racial Heterogeneity of Friends Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA New York, New York City 2007-08-11 27 pages Bethany Hashiguchi Are biracial youth more likely to be in racially heterogeneous friendship networks than single race youth, and do they act as catalysts for decreased social distance?…

  • Determinants of Multiracial Identification and Their Effects on Poverty Estimtates among US Children

    Determinants of Multiracial Identification and Their Effects on Poverty Estimtates among US Children Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, California 2004-08-14 21 pages Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor Chapel Hill Department of Sociology University of North Carolina This project examines…

  • The Multiple Race Population: Is it Increasing or Decreasing?

    The Multiple Race Population: Is it Increasing or Decreasing? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-11 15 pages Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus Population Studies Center and Sociology Department University of Michigan A vibrant social movement developed in the 1990s, argued that many Americans…