{"id":58566,"date":"2019-07-24T22:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58566"},"modified":"2019-07-24T22:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:56:23","slug":"biracial-american-colorism-passing-for-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58566","title":{"rendered":"Biracial American Colorism: Passing for White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0002764218810747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Biracial American Colorism: Passing for White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/abs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Behavioral Scientist<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/toc\/absb\/62\/14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume: 62 issue: 14 (The Implications of Colorism vis-\u00e0-vis Demographic Variation in a New Millennium)<\/a><br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0002764218810747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1177\/0002764218810747<\/a><br \/>\npages 2072-2086<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/keshia-l-harris-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Keshia L. Harris<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biracial Americans constitute a larger portion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a> population than is often acknowledged. According to the U.S. Census, 8.4 million people or 2.6% of the population identified with two or more racial origins in 2016. Arguably, these numbers are misleading considering extensive occurrences of interracial pairings between Whites and minority racial groups throughout U.S. history. Many theorists posit that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hypodescent<\/a> principle of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorism<\/a>, colloquially known as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the one drop rule<\/a>,\u201d has influenced American racial socialization in such a way that numerous individuals primarily identify with one racial group despite having parents from two different racial backgrounds. While much of social science literature examines the racial identification processes of biracial Americans who identify with their minority heritage, this article focuses on contextual factors such as family income, neighborhood, religion, and gender that influence the decision for otherwise African\/Asian\/Latino\/Native Americans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identify as White<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0002764218810747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While much of social science literature examines the racial identification processes of biracial Americans who identify with their minority heritage, this article focuses on contextual factors such as family income, neighborhood, religion, and gender that influence the decision for otherwise African\/Asian\/Latino\/Native Americans to identify as White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,8,6462,23674,20],"tags":[8585,240,30039],"class_list":["post-58566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-american-behavioral-scientist","tag-colorism","tag-keshia-l-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566","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=58566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58567,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566\/revisions\/58567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}