{"id":343,"date":"2009-08-18T03:35:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T03:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=343"},"modified":"2013-01-19T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:45:02","slug":"mothers-fathers-or-both-parental-gender-and-parent-child-interactions-in-the-racial-classification-of-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jenifer L. Bratter<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> Assistant Professor of\u00a0Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research
\nRice University<\/em><\/p>\n

Holly E. Heard<\/a><\/strong>
\nRice University<\/em><\/p>\n

Sociological Forum<\/a>
\nVolume 24, Number 3<\/a>, September 2009
\npages 658-688
\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1573-7861.2009.01124.x<\/a><\/p>\n

Research on racial identification in interracial families shows that children are more likely to be labeled as minority if the father is of minority race. Yet, prior studies have not sufficiently considered the role of parent-child relationships in shaping children’s identification with either mother’s or father’s race. \u00a0We address this limitation using data on 706 adolescents in interracial families from Wave 1 of Add Health<\/a>.\u00a0 We examine whether adolescents identify with their mother’s race or with their father’s race, as opposed to selecting a multiracial identity, within specific combinations of parents’ races. We also explore whether indicators of parental involvement (i.e., quantity and quality of involvement, educational involvement, and social control) explain any gender effects. Contrary to prior studies, we find that the tendency to match father’s race is only true in black\/white households, particularly if he is white, while adolescents in Asian\/white families tend to match mothers regardless of her race.<\/strong> Moreover, while father’s involvement, particularly educational involvement, was more likely than mother’s to influence racial classification, adjusting for involvement does not explain gender patterns.\u00a0 This study shows that the well-known gender influences on parenting have little to do with the complex ways parent-child relationships impact racial classification.<\/p>\n

Read the entire paper proposal for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 2006 <\/span>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of\u00a0Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Holly E. Heard Rice University Sociological Forum Volume 24, Number 3, September 2009 pages 658-688 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1573-7861.2009.01124.x Research on racial identification in interracial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,394,20],"tags":[139,217,3814,215,344,138,356],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-add-health","tag-holly-e-heard","tag-holly-heard","tag-jenifer-bratter","tag-jenifer-l-bratter","tag-national-longitudinal-study-of-adolescent-health","tag-sociological-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}