{"id":53246,"date":"2017-04-05T20:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53246"},"modified":"2017-04-10T02:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T02:10:52","slug":"beyond-black-and-white-the-identity-construction-and-political-attitudes-of-biracial-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53246","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Black and White: The Identity Construction and Political Attitudes of Biracial Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyond Black and White: The Identity Construction and Political Attitudes of Biracial Americans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Hawai\u02bbi, Hilo<\/a>
\n200 W. K\u0101wili Street
\nHilo, Hawai\u02bbi 96720-4091
\nStudent Services Center Room W-201
\nFriday, 2017-04-07, 17:00\u201319:00 HAST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lauren D. Davenport<\/a>,<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Political Science
\nStanford University, Stanford, California<\/em><\/p>\n

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Free presentation on the broader social and political implications of the increasingly racially mixed American landscape, featuring guest lecturer Dr. Lauren Davenport, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.<\/p>\n

In what has been called \u201cthe greatest change in the measurement of race in the history of the United States\u201d (Farley 2002: 33), Americans were allowed, for the first time, to self-identify with more than one race in the 2000 U.S. census. Since then, the U.S. multiple-race population has skyrocketed by 106%\u2014more than 17 times the rate of growth of the single-race population. Individuals of mixed-race comprise the fastest-growing youth group in the nation, and an estimated 20 percent of Americans will identify with multiple racial groups by 2050. When it comes to multiple-race labeling, Hawaii<\/a> is leading the charge: it is the state with the largest percentage of the population identifying as multiracial<\/a>, by far.<\/p>\n

In this presentation, Dr. Davenport draws upon a wealth of sources to address the following questions:<\/p>\n