Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Jonathan B. Freeman

Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against

2016-03-31

Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against The Daily Targum: Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. 2016-03-31 Samantha Karas The fastest growing racial group in the United States is mixed-race individuals, but they are also the ones experiencing increasing amounts of prejudice from white people, according to a…
Where We Live Affects Our Bias Against Mixed-Race Individuals, Psychology Study Finds

2016-03-31

Whites living in areas where they are less exposed to those of other races have a harder time categorizing mixed-race individuals than do Whites with greater interracial exposure, a condition that is associated with greater prejudice against mixed-race individuals, a new experimental study shows.
A Perceptual Pathway to Bias: Interracial Exposure Reduces Abrupt Shifts in Real-Time Race Perception That Predict Mixed-Race Bias

2016-03-15

In two national samples, we examined the influence of interracial exposure in one’s local environment on the dynamic process underlying race perception and its evaluative consequences.