{"id":37015,"date":"2014-08-10T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37015"},"modified":"2014-08-10T21:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T21:20:33","slug":"checking-new-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37015","title":{"rendered":"Checking new boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gender.stanford.edu\/news\/2014\/checking-new-boxes\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Checking new boxes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gender.stanford.edu\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Gender News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gender.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\">The Clayman Institute for Gender Research<\/a><br \/>\nStanford University<br \/>\n2014-07-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gender.stanford.edu\/people\/ashley-farmer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ashley Farmer<\/strong><\/a>, Postdoctoral Fellow<br \/>\n<em>Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Political Scientist Lauren Davenport reveals the importance of gender in understanding multiracialism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 2000, the year the U.S. census first allowed respondents to identify as multiracial or multiethnic, the number of Americans who identify with multiple races has increased dramatically. Given that respondents are now allowed to check multiple boxes on the census, that\u2019s not surprising. However, what is surprising is that gender appears to be the biggest predictor of mixed-race identification.<\/p>\n<p>So says <a href=\"http:\/\/gender.stanford.edu\/people\/lauren-davenport\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Lauren Davenport<\/a>, assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford. In her new book project, <em>Politics Between Black and White<\/em>, which examines how social and political processes shape the outlook of multiracial Americans, she finds that women identify as multiracial at higher rates than men. Professor Davenport also finds that gender-specific factors like physical appearance and feminist politics can influence mixed-race identification&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/gender.stanford.edu\/news\/2014\/checking-new-boxes\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking new boxes Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2014-07-23 Ashley Farmer, Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research Political Scientist Lauren Davenport reveals the importance of gender in understanding multiracialism Since 2000, the year the U.S. census first allowed respondents to identify as multiracial or multiethnic, the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20,25],"tags":[17704,10073,9813,17705,9814],"class_list":["post-37015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-women","tag-ashley-farmer","tag-clayman-institute-for-gender-research","tag-gender-news","tag-lauren-davenport","tag-the-clayman-institute-for-gender-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37015","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=37015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}