{"id":45452,"date":"2016-01-28T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45452"},"modified":"2016-01-28T22:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:55:27","slug":"daughters-of-interracial-couples-are-more-likely-to-say-they-are-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45452","title":{"rendered":"Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4195141\/daughters-of-interracial-couples-are-more-likely-to-say-they-are-multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\" target=\"_blank\">TIME Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-28<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careywallace.com\" target=\"_blank\">Carey Wallace<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Study suggests it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re considered &#8220;intriguing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the fastest growing racial groups in the country isn\u2019t a single racial group\u2013it\u2019s people from multiracial backgrounds, the children of interracial unions. A new study has found however, that young women are much more likely to call themselves multiracial than young men are.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1967, when the Supreme Court declared state laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving vs.Virginia<\/em><\/a>, the rate of interracial marriages in the United States has climbed from below one percent to 10% of all new marriages today.<\/p>\n<p>And by 2050, as those numbers continue to rise, social scientists estimate that one out of every five Americans will be mixed-race.<\/p>\n<p>How will this growing population choose to identify themselves? Will they embrace one parent\u2019s background more than the other? Will they create a blend of the two? Or will they create something completely new?<\/p>\n<p>To find out, <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalscience.stanford.edu\/people\/lauren-d-davenport\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Davenport<\/a>, professor of political science at Stanford, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45446\" target=\"_blank\">sifted data from tens of thousands of incoming college freshmen<\/a> with multi-racial backgrounds across the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4195141\/daughters-of-interracial-couples-are-more-likely-to-say-they-are-multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial TIME Magazine 2016-01-28 Carey Wallace Study suggests it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re considered &#8220;intriguing.&#8221; One of the fastest growing racial groups in the country isn\u2019t a single racial group\u2013it\u2019s people from multiracial backgrounds, the children of interracial unions. A new study has found however, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,14646,8,820,394,20,25],"tags":[22844,22843,17705,19784,3521],"class_list":["post-45452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-carey-wallace","tag-lauren-d-davenport","tag-lauren-davenport","tag-time","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45452","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=45452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45453,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45452\/revisions\/45453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}