Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Tag: Aliya R. Saperstein

  • Drawing on the Pew Research Center’s 2015 Survey of Multiracial Adults, we find declining evidence of hypo- and hyperdescent at work in the United States today, some support for a dominance structure that upends conventional expectations about a Black one-drop rule, and a rising regime of co-descent. In addition, we explore how regimes of mixed-race…

  • Genetic ancestry test results shape race self-identification, Stanford researchers find

    People who have taken a genetic ancestry test are more likely to report multiple races when self-identifying on surveys, according to Stanford sociologists.

  • Measuring Race and Ancestry in the Age of Genetic Testing

    We find that people in our sample who have taken a GAT, compared with those who have not, are more likely to self-identify as multiracial and are particularly likely to select three or more races.

  • Film Review: Multiracial Identity

    Film Review: Multiracial Identity Teaching Sociology Volume 41, Number 4 (October 2013) pages 397-399 DOI: 10.1177/0092055X13496205 Sara McDonough Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Multiracial Identity. 77 minutes. 2010. Brian Chinhema , director. Bullfrog Films. PO Box 149, Oley, PA…