{"id":32305,"date":"2013-07-14T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32305"},"modified":"2017-04-13T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:39:52","slug":"clearly-genealogy-alone-does-not-dictate-racial-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32305","title":{"rendered":"Clearly, genealogy alone does not dictate racial identification."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What remains perplexing is that given the history of racial mixing, <strong>the Census Bureau estimates that about 75-90% of Black Americans are ancestrally multiracial<\/strong>, yet even today, only 7% choose to identify as such (Davis, 2001; Lee and Bean, 2010). Clearly, genealogy alone does not dictate racial identification. Given that the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>\u201d of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\">hypodescent<\/a> is no longer legally codified, why does the rate of multiracial reporting among Blacks remain relatively low?&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32283\" target=\"_blank\">A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century<\/a>,\u201d <em>Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race<\/em>, Volume 9, Issue 2, (Fall 2012). 423. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1742058X12000161\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1742058X12000161<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What remains perplexing is that given the history of racial mixing, the Census Bureau estimates that about 75-90% of Black Americans are ancestrally multiracial, yet even today, only 7% choose to identify as such (Davis, 2001; Lee and Bean, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7794,1187,2845,273,175],"class_list":["post-32305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-du-bois-review","tag-du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race","tag-frank-bean","tag-frank-d-bean","tag-jennifer-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305","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=32305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53487,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305\/revisions\/53487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}