{"id":5961,"date":"2011-07-17T01:52:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T01:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2011-11-19T18:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:39:51","slug":"do-you-see-what-i-am-how-observers%e2%80%99-backgrounds-affect-their-perceptions-of-multiracial-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5961","title":{"rendered":"Do You See What I Am? How Observers\u2019 Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/spq.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/73\/1\/58\" target=\"_blank\">Do You See What I Am? How Observers\u2019 Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spq.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Psychology Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spq.sagepub.com\/content\/vol73\/issue1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 73, Number 1<\/a> (March 2010)<br \/>\npages 58-78<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1177\/0190272510361436<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~socy\/faculty\/herman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa R. Herman<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Dartmouth College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the racial ancestries of multiracial youth. This paper examines how people perceive multiracial adolescents: specifically, I investigate whether observers perceive the adolescents as multiracial and whether these racial perceptions are congruent with the multiracial adolescents\u2019 self-identifications. Results show that 1) observers perceived close to half of multiracial targets as monoracial, 2) multiracial targets who identified themselves as black were nearly always perceived as black but not always as multiracial, and 3) the demographic and environmental characteristics of observers had no bearing on the congruence of their racial perceptions. That is, regardless of their own demographic characteristics or exposure to people of other races, observers were more congruent when examining targets who self-identified as black or white and less congruent when identifying targets from Asian, Hispanic, American Indian, or Middle Eastern backgrounds. <strong>Despite the demographic trend toward multiracialism in the United States, observers\u2019 perceptions may maintain the status quo in race relations: a black-white dichotomy where part-blacks remain in the collective black category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire\u00a0article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~socy\/pdfs\/what_i_am_mrh10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You See What I Am? How Observers\u2019 Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 58-78 DOI: 10.1177\/0190272510361436 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[964,350,833],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-melissa-herman","tag-melissa-r-herman","tag-social-psychology-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961","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=5961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}