{"id":25115,"date":"2013-04-03T02:36:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T02:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25115"},"modified":"2018-07-25T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:52:09","slug":"teaching-learning-guide-for-multiracial-americans-racial-identity-choices-and-implications-for-the-collection-of-race-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25115","title":{"rendered":"Teaching & Learning Guide for: Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sociology Compass<\/a>
\nVolume 6, Issue 6<\/a> (June 2012)
\npages 519\u2013525
\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1751-9020.2012.00463.x<\/a><\/p>\n

Nikki Khanna<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Vermont<\/em><\/p>\n

This guide accompanies the following article: Nikki Khanna, \u2018Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data\u2019<\/a>, Sociology Compass<\/em> 6\/4 (2012): 316\u2013331, 10.1111\/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Author\u2019s introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2010, approximately nine million Americans self-identified with two or more races on the United States Census \u2013 a 32 percent increase in the last decade. President Barack Obama<\/strong><\/a>, the son of a white Kansas-born mother and Kenyan father, was not one of these self-identified multiracial Americans.<\/strong> In fact, Obama chose only to check the \u2018black\u2019 box<\/a>, illustrating that multiracial ancestry does not always translate to multiracial identity. Since the 1990s, there has been a growing body of research examining the multiracial population and key questions have included: How do multiracial Americans identify themselves? And why? This paper reviews this research, with a focus on the factors shaping racial identity and the implications regarding the collection of race data in the US Census.<\/p>\n

Author recommends<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khanna, Nikki. 2011. Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Race<\/a><\/em>. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.<\/p>\n

Looking at black-white biracial Americans, this book examines the influencing factors and underlying social psychological processes shaping their multidimensional racial identities. This book also investigates the ways in which biracial Americans perform race in their day-to-day lives…<\/p>\n

Online materials<\/strong><\/p>\n

Race: Are We So Different?<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/understandingrace.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This website explores the common misconceptions about race through several interactive activities.<\/p>\n

Race: The Power of an Illusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/race\/000_General\/000_00-Home.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

This website explores the question \u2018What is Race?\u2019 through several interactive activities.<\/p>\n

Mixed-Race Studies<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This website is a useful resource for anyone interested in mixed-race studies. Included here is information about articles, books, dissertations, videos, multimedia, and other resources related to multiracial people…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the\u00a0(entire?) guide\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guide accompanies the following article: Nikki Khanna, \u2018Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data\u2019, Sociology Compass 6\/4 (2012): 316\u2013331, 10.1111\/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,9139,394,23,20],"tags":[352,802],"class_list":["post-25115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-pov","category-socialscience","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-nikki-khanna","tag-sociology-compass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115","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=25115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56669,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115\/revisions\/56669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}