{"id":37073,"date":"2014-08-15T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37073"},"modified":"2014-08-15T06:28:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T06:28:35","slug":"americans-fill-out-president-obamas-census-form-what-is-his-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37073","title":{"rendered":"Americans Fill Out President Obama&#8217;s Census Form: What is His Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/ssqu.12105\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Americans Fill Out President Obama&#8217;s Census Form: What is His Race?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1540-6237\" target=\"_blank\">Social Science Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\nPublished Online: 2014-07-22<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/ssqu.12105\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/ssqu.12105<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/polisci.berkeley.edu\/people\/person\/jack-citrin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jack Citrin<\/strong><\/a>, Heller Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/posc\/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1057914\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Morris Levy<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>University of Southern California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/polisci.berkeley.edu\/people\/person\/robert-van-houweling\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Robert P. Van Houweling<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We use nationally representative survey experiments to assess public opinion about how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> should have identified himself racially on the 2010 Census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Respondents were randomly assigned to three conditions\u2014a control, a treatment that described the president&#8217;s biracial ancestry, and a treatment that combined the biracial ancestry information with a statement that Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6435\" target=\"_blank\">had in fact classified himself as black only<\/a>. All respondents were then asked how they felt Obama should have filled out his Census form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A clear majority of Americans in all experimental conditions said that Obama should have identified himself as both black and white.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There appears to be suggesting robust acceptance of official multiracial identification despite the cultural and legal legacy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cone drop of blood\u201d rule<\/a> in official U.S. race categorization. A subsequent survey experiment found that a convenience sample of Americans support multiracial identification for mixed-race individuals generally and not only for the president.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/ssqu.12105\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Fill Out President Obama&#8217;s Census Form: What is His Race? Social Science Quarterly Published Online: 2014-07-22 DOI: 10.1111\/ssqu.12105 Jack Citrin, Heller Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Morris Levy, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Southern California Robert P. Van Houweling, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Objective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,33,8,394,20],"tags":[17744,17745,17746,17747,1844],"class_list":["post-37073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jack-citrin","tag-morris-levy","tag-robert-p-van-houweling","tag-robert-van-houweling","tag-social-science-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37073","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=37073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}