{"id":1672,"date":"2009-10-07T02:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2013-02-03T02:10:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T02:10:08","slug":"race-multirace-and-racial-heterogeneity-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Race, Multirace, and Racial Heterogeneity of Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p183135_index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Race, Multirace, and Racial Heterogeneity of Friends<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA<br \/>\nNew York, New York City<br \/>\n2007-08-11<\/p>\n<p>27 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bethany Hashiguchi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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? Using a sample of youth in grades 7-12 in 1994-1995 from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Add_Health\" target=\"_blank\">National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Youth<\/a>, I study the effects of race and school context on racial diversity of friendship networks to answer these questions. \u00a0I find that biracial and Hispanic youth are more likely to report heterogeneous friendship groups than non-Hispanic single race youth. In addition, school racial composition is important in determining the relationship between race and friendship heterogeneity. <strong>\u00a0These results suggest that biracial and Hispanic youth bridge the social distance among different single race groups and help weaken social boundaries between racial groups by fostering interracial interactions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p183135_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,394,20],"tags":[190,138],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-bethany-hashiguchi","tag-national-longitudinal-study-of-adolescent-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","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=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}