{"id":12239,"date":"2011-02-23T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2011-02-23T01:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:26:40","slug":"the-racial-identification-of-biracial-children-with-one-asian-parent-evidence-from-the-1990-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12239","title":{"rendered":"The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\/pubs\/pdf\/rr96-370.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. 96-370<br \/>\nPopulation Studies Center Research Report Series<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan<br \/>\n<\/a>August 1996<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~yuxie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yu Xie<\/a><\/strong>, Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/sociology\/goyette\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kimberly A. Goyette<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Temple University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the socioeconomic and demographic correlates that are associated with whether biracial children with an Asian parent are racially identified with their Asian parent or with their non-Asian parent. With data extracted from the 5 percent Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1990 Census, we take into account explanatory variables at three levels: child\u2019s characteristics, parents\u2019 characteristics, and locale\u2019s racial composition. Our results indicate that the racial identification of biracial children with an Asian parent is to a large extent an arbitrary option within today\u2019s prevailing racial classification scheme. We find empirical evidence in support of the theoretical proposition that both assimilation and awareness of Asian heritage affect the racial identification of biracial children with an Asian parent. Of particular interest is our new finding that the Asian parent\u2019s education increases the likelihood of Asian identification only for third-generation children. In general, we find demographic factors, such as the Asian parent\u2019s ethnicity, to play a far more important role than socioeconomic factors approximating assimilation and awareness processes. In light of these results, we advance the thesis that, like ethnic options among whites, racial options are available for the racial identification of biracial children with an Asian parent.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\/pubs\/pdf\/rr96-370.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census No. 96-370 Population Studies Center Research Report Series Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan August 1996 Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology University of Michigan Kimberly A. Goyette, Associate Professor of Sociology Temple University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33,8,681,20],"tags":[5492,5493,5155,3804,5491],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-census","category-media-archive","category-reports","category-usa","tag-kimberly-a-goyette","tag-kimberly-goyette","tag-population-studies-center","tag-university-of-michigan","tag-yu-xie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}