{"id":2782,"date":"2009-11-04T02:57:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2010-03-13T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:58:18","slug":"forced-to-choose-some-determinants-of-racial-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2782","title":{"rendered":"Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~socy\/pdfs\/MHftc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Child Development<br \/>\nMay\/June 2004<br \/>\nVolume 75, Number 3<br \/>\nPages 730-748<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~socy\/faculty\/herman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Herman<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Dartmouth University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures.\u00a0 The multiracial categories used here are derived from youths&#8217; reports of their own and their parents&#8217; race(s).\u00a0 Comparisons are made within groups of multiracial respondents who make different choices among single-race categories.\u00a0 Results show differences between sub-groups in strength and importance of ethnic identity, self-esteem, and perceptions of ethnic discrimination.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.chass.ncsu.edu\/garson\/PA765\/logistic.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Multinomial logistic regression<\/a> show further that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physiognomy\" target=\"_blank\">physiognomy<\/a>, ethnic identity, and race of coresident parent(s) are significantly associated with reported race.\u00a0 Also related to racial identification among part-Hispanic youth are racial distribution and socioeconomic status of their neighborhoods and the racial distribution of their schools.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~socy\/pdfs\/MHftc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification Child Development May\/June 2004 Volume 75, Number 3 Pages 730-748 Melissa Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth University This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures.\u00a0 The multiracial categories used here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[963,964,350],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-child-development","tag-melissa-herman","tag-melissa-r-herman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","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=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}