{"id":21376,"date":"2012-03-13T22:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21376"},"modified":"2013-05-27T02:36:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T02:36:54","slug":"being-mixed-who-claims-a-biracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21376","title":{"rendered":"Being mixed: Who claims a biracial identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1037\/a0026845\" target=\"_blank\">Being mixed: Who claims a biracial identity?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/journals\/cdp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/journals\/cdp\/18\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 18, Number 1<\/a> (January 2012)<br \/>\npages 91-96<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1037\/a0026845\" target=\"_blank\">10.1037\/a0026845<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsmtownsend.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah S. M. Townsend<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Postdoctoral Fellow<br \/>\n<em>Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.arizona.edu\/~aisp\/fryberg.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie A. Fryberg<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in American Indian Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesleyan.edu\/templates\/dept\/psyc\/skeleton_faculty.htt?function=f1&amp;department=PSYC&amp;faculty=clwilkins\" target=\"_blank\">Clara L. Wilkins<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Wesleyan University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.stanford.edu\/hmarkus\" target=\"_blank\">Hazel Rose Markus<\/a><\/strong>, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What factors determine whether mixed-race individuals claim a biracial identity or a monoracial identity? Two studies examine how two status-related factors\u2014race and social class\u2014influence identity choice. While a majority of mixed-race participants identified as biracial in both studies, those who were members of groups with higher status in American society were more likely than those who were members of groups with lower status to claim a biracial identity. Specifically, (a) Asian\/White individuals were more likely than Black\/White or Latino\/White individuals to identify as biracial and (b) mixed-race people from middle-class backgrounds were more likely than those from working-class backgrounds to identify as biracial. <strong>These results suggest that claiming a biracial identity is a choice that is more available to those with higher status.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/journals\/cdp\/18\/1\/91.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being mixed: Who claims a biracial identity? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 91-96 DOI: 10.1037\/a0026845 Sarah S. M. Townsend, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Postdoctoral Fellow Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Stephanie A. Fryberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,14646,8,20],"tags":[10035,10036,284,8188,432,10037,431,8187,10033,10034],"class_list":["post-21376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-clara-l-wilkins","tag-clara-wilkins","tag-cultural-diversity-and-ethnic-minority-psychology","tag-hazel-markus","tag-hazel-r-markus","tag-hazel-rose-markus","tag-sarah-s-m-townsend","tag-sarah-townsend","tag-stephanie-a-fryberg","tag-stephanie-fryberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376","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=21376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}