{"id":23521,"date":"2012-05-30T02:47:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T02:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23521"},"modified":"2012-10-25T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T07:27:10","slug":"the-significance-of-mixed-race-public-perceptions-of-barack-obama%e2%80%99s-race-and-the-effect-of-obama%e2%80%99s-race-on-public-support-for-his-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23521","title":{"rendered":"The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama\u2019s Race and the Effect of Obama\u2019s Race on Public Support for his Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2139\/ssrn.1910209\" target=\"_blank\">The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama\u2019s Race and the Effect of Obama\u2019s Race on Public Support for his Presidency<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Science Research Network<\/a><br \/>\nWorking Paper Series<br \/>\n2011-08-15<br \/>\n55 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2139\/ssrn.1910209\" target=\"_blank\">10.2139\/ssrn.1910209<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel Sinyangwe<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This research paper seeks to understand white, black, and mixed-race Americans\u2019 perceptions of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> racial identity and the influence that those perceptions have on patterns of public support for the President. Some have proposed that the American racial hierarchy is becoming more stratified and complex, with mixed-race Americans rising to a higher, \u201chonorary white\u201d racial stratum with greater socioeconomic and political privileges than they have had in the past. These claims are partially supported by this research. Contrary to those who still conceptualize race in terms of black and white, this research establishes that a majority of whites and mixed-race Americans, and a third of blacks, likely conceptualize the racially ambiguous President Barack Obama as distinctly \u201cmixed-race.\u201d I argue that Americans distinguish Obama as \u201cmixed-race\u201d for a purpose. Whites, blacks, and mixed-race Americans identify Obama as \u201cmixed-race\u201d to express his perceived difference from black people, interests, and values. These distinctions have political significance: mixed-race Americans that are at least part black are more likely to both perceive and support a \u201cmixed-race\u201d Obama while blacks respond more favorably to a perceived \u201cblack\u201d Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/journal\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sinyangwe_SocSci_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama\u2019s Race and the Effect of Obama\u2019s Race on Public Support for his Presidency Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series 2011-08-15 55 pages DOI: 10.2139\/ssrn.1910209 Samuel Sinyangwe Stanford University This research paper seeks to understand white, black, and mixed-race Americans\u2019 perceptions of President Barack Obama\u2019s racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8,14,26,20],"tags":[10965,10966],"class_list":["post-23521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-usa","tag-samuel-sinyangwe","tag-social-science-research-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23521","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=23521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}