{"id":60223,"date":"2020-10-11T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60223"},"modified":"2020-10-11T02:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T02:01:27","slug":"how-policies-can-address-multiracial-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60223","title":{"rendered":"How Policies Can Address Multiracial Stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/2372732220943906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>How Policies Can Address Multiracial Stigma<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/bbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/a><br \/>\nFirst published 2020-10-01<br \/>\npages 115-122<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/2372732220943906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.1177\/2372732220943906<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psych.rutgers.edu\/faculty-profiles-a-contacts\/112-diana-sanchez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Diana T. Sanchez<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychandneuro.duke.edu\/people\/sarah-elizabeth-gaither\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sarah E. Gaither<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience<br \/>\n<em>Duke Identity and Diversity Lab<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Duke University, Durham, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.analiaalbuja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Analia F. Albuja<\/strong><\/a>, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow<br \/>\n<em>Duke Identity and Diversity Lab<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Duke University, Durham, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/major.psych.ucsb.edu\/people\/zoey-eddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoey Eddy<\/a>,<\/strong> Research Assistant<br \/>\n<em>Self and Social Identity Lab<\/em><br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, Multiracial Americans completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Census\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S Census<\/a> with the option to indicate more than one race for the first time. As we embark on the second anniversary of this shift in Multiracial recognition, this article reviews the research related to known sources and systems that perpetuate Multiracial-specific stigma. Policy recommendations address the needs and the continued acknowledgment of this growing racial\/ethnic minority population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiracial individuals represent a growing majority in the racial\/ethnic minority population<\/li>\n<li>Multiracial people encounter specific forms of stigma<\/li>\n<li>Multiracial-specific stigma uniquely impacts the psychological and physical health of Multiracial individuals<\/li>\n<li>Policies can address Multiracial-specific stigma (e.g., more detailed assessments of race\/ethnicity, revisiting Multiracial language, Multiracial-specific health interventions)<\/li>\n<li>Recommended policy changes will make better use of human capital for everyone by increasing accuracy in population estimates used to distribute educational and health care resources, as well as improving health care delivery (e.g., transplant matching).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire article in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/2372732220943906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HTML<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/2372732220943906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago, Multiracial Americans completed the U.S Census with the option to indicate more than one race for the first time. As we embark on the second anniversary of this shift in Multiracial recognition, this article reviews the research related to known sources and systems that perpetuate Multiracial-specific stigma. Policy recommendations address the needs and the continued acknowledgment of this growing racial\/ethnic minority population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,26,20],"tags":[20664,28913,286,274,31180,11816,28038,9692,31181],"class_list":["post-60223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-analia-albuja","tag-analia-f-albuja","tag-diana-sanchez","tag-diana-t-sanchez","tag-policy-insights-from-the-behavioral-and-brain-sciences","tag-sarah-e-gaither","tag-sarah-elizabeth-gaither","tag-sarah-gaither","tag-zoey-eddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60223","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=60223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60225,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60223\/revisions\/60225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}