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  • School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment

    School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment Sociological Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Published Online: 2010-01-15 Pages 150 – 178 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2009.01166.x Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Joshua Klugman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Psychology Temple University Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no…

  • Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification

    Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 10 pages Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Recent research has demonstrated the existence of fluidity in both racial self-identification and interviewer classification.…

  • Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity

    Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity American Journal of Public Health Volume 93, Number 11 (November 2003) Pages 1865-1870 J. Richard Udry, PhD, Kenan Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Sociology Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Rose Maria Li, PhD Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina,…

  • Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide?

    Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide? Social Problems Volume 56, Number 3 (August 2009) Pages 425–446 DOI 10.1525/sp.2009.56.3.425 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa How do multiracial groups “fit” into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals…

  • Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals

    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…

  • 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?…

  • Gaining Interactional Leverage: School Racial Compositions and Multiracial Youths

    Gaining Interactional Leverage: School Racial Compositions and Multiracial Youths Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, California 2004-08-14 44 pages Simon Cheng,  Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut One of the most important changes in the contemporary American population is the…

  • Status Maximization or Identity Theory?: A Theorectical Approach to Understanding the Racial Identification of Multiracial Adolescents

    Status Maximization or Identity Theory?: A Theorectical Approach to Understanding the Racial Identification of Multiracial Adolescents Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 Matthew Oware, Associate Professor of Sociology DePauw University Previous research has found that there are multiple factors that influence the…

  • The friendship networks of multiracial adolescents

    The friendship networks of multiracial adolescents Social Science Research Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2009 pages 279-295 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.09.002 Lincoln Quillian, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Northwestern University Rozlyn Redd Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University, USA We investigate the friendship networks of multiracial adolescents through a comparison of the size…

  • Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents

    Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Holly E. Heard Rice University Sociological Forum Volume 24, Number 3, September 2009 pages 658-688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01124.x Research on racial identification in interracial…