{"id":12526,"date":"2011-03-08T01:52:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12526"},"modified":"2011-03-08T04:33:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T04:33:18","slug":"government-classification-of-mixed-race-individuals-in-the-united-states-census-and-its-effects-on-self-identification-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12526","title":{"rendered":"Request to interview members of multiracial organizations for Sociology Honors Research Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2010_Study_Info_Sheet_01-12-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Request to interview members of\u00a0multiracial organizations for Sociology Honors Research Study<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is <a href=\"alcantas@uci.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Alcantar<\/a>, a Sociology honors student attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uci.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California, Irvine<\/a> who is currently conducting a research study from January until April of this year [2011]\u00a0on government classification of multiracial individuals. The purpose of this study is to observe how modern-day racial and ethnic categories used by the government are implemented on documentation, as well as the effects this may have on American society&#8217;s views on the concept of race. Another objective is to compare past and present day sentiments on a multiracial identifier and the idea of being multiracial in general.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of my research involves interviewing individuals belonging to groups that were represented in events during the 1990s that ultimately led to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Office_of_Management_and_Budget\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Management and Budget&#8217;s<\/a> 1997 decision to allow census respondents to &#8220;mark one or more&#8221; races in the race question. This includes interviewing members of multiracial organizations, and interviewing experts with comprehensive knowledge and experience studying the concept of race and race relations.<\/p>\n<p>The in-person interview (around the Southern California area, I could also meet in Northern California March 19th-23rd [2011])\u00a0 on average takes about 30 minutes to complete, and responses are kept confidential in that no one will be able to trace back to any statement a respondent makes during the interview.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested, please contact me at <a href=\"mailto:alcantas@uci.edu\" target=\"_blank\">alcantas@uci.edu<\/a> or (510) 965-2030.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2010_Study_Info_Sheet_01-12-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Study Information Sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Request to interview members of\u00a0multiracial organizations for Sociology Honors Research Study My name is Steve Alcantar, a Sociology honors student attending the University of California, Irvine who is currently conducting a research study from January until April of this year [2011]\u00a0on government classification of multiracial individuals. The purpose of this study is to observe how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,6,26,394,20,27],"tags":[5638,3892],"class_list":["post-12526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-wanted","tag-steve-alcantar","tag-university-of-california-at-irvine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526","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=12526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}