{"id":32315,"date":"2013-07-15T01:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32315"},"modified":"2017-03-29T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:23:52","slug":"i-find-that-biracial-respondents-frequently-explain-their-black-identities-as-due-in-part-to-how-they-believe-they-are-viewed-by-%e2%80%9cothers%e2%80%9d-and-by-%e2%80%9clarger-society-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32315","title":{"rendered":"I find that biracial respondents frequently explain their black identities as due, in part, to how they believe they are viewed by \u201cothers\u201d and by \u201clarger society.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This study adds to the growing body of literature on multiracial identity by illustrating the importance of reflected appraisals in shaping racial identity. Importantly, these findings also show how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reflected_appraisal\" target=\"_blank\">reflected appraisals<\/a> are fundamentally shaped by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a> (for black-white Americans in particular). Few studies examine reflected appraisals as a determinant of racial identity (Khanna 2004), and I find that biracial respondents frequently explain their black identities as due, in part, to how they believe they are viewed by \u201cothers\u201d and by \u201clarger society.\u201d As suggested by Brunsma and Rockquemore (2001), however, who argue that how biracial people think others view them is moderated by social context, many respondents draw distinctions between how they believe they are perceived depending upon whether the observers are white or black. Other white people, they argue, see them as black, while other black people are more likely to recognize their multiracial backgrounds. These conflicting perceptions have the potential to shape different \u201cracial reflections\u201d (e.g., as black or multiracial), yet I find that the one-drop rule affects the entire reflected appraisal process, subsequently shaping \u201cinternalized\u201d black identities for the majority of respondents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nikki Khanna, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4599\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018If You\u2019re Half Black, You\u2019re Just Black\u2019: Reflected Appraisals and the Persistence of the One-Drop Rule<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sociological Quarterly<\/em>, Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2010). 113-114. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2009.01162.x\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2009.01162.x<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study adds to the growing body of literature on multiracial identity by illustrating the importance of reflected appraisals in shaping racial identity. Importantly, these findings also show how reflected appraisals are fundamentally shaped by the one-drop rule (for black-white Americans in particular).<\/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":[352,1835],"class_list":["post-32315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-nikki-khanna","tag-sociological-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315","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=32315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53076,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions\/53076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}