Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals |
Social Psychology Quarterly
Volume 70, Number 4 (December 2007)
Pages 405–423
DOI: 10.1177/019027250707000409
Jamie Mihoko Doyle
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania
Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we estimate the determinants and direction of change in individual racial identification among multiracial and monoracial adolescents as they transition to young adulthood. We find that while many multiracials subsequently identify as monoracials, sizable numbers of monoracials also subsequently become multiracials. Native American-whites appear to have the least stable identification. We find strong support that socioeconomic status, gender, and physical appearance shape the direction of change for multiracials, and that black biracials are especially compelled to identify as monoracial blacks.
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Tags: Add Health, Grace Kao, Jamie Doyle, Jamie M. Doyle, Jamie Mihoko Doyle, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Social Psychology Quarterly