Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Lauren Davenport
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“Gender is one of the most important predictors of racial identity, with women more likely than men to incorporate multiple races into their self-identification, all else being equal. This finding emerges across black-white, Asian-white, and Latino-white biracials, though the effect is most pronounced among black-white biracials. Biracial men are relatively more inclined to identify with…
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With the mixed-race population rapidly increasing in the United States, Stanford political scientist Lauren Davenport says it’s important to figure out what factors shape this group’s political attitudes and self-identification.
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Free presentation on the broader social and political implications of the increasingly racially mixed American landscape, featuring guest lecturer Dr. Lauren Davenport, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
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Beyond Black and White: Biracial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Politics American Political Science Review Volume 110 / Issue 01 / February 2016 pages 52-67 DOI: 10.1017/S0003055415000556 Lauren D. Davenport, Assistant Professor of Political Science Stanford University The 2000 U.S. census was the first in which respondents were permitted to self-identify with more than one race.…
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Checking new boxes Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2014-07-23 Ashley Farmer, Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research Political Scientist Lauren Davenport reveals the importance of gender in understanding multiracialism Since 2000, the year the U.S. census first allowed respondents to identify as multiracial or multiethnic, the number…