{"id":6240,"date":"2012-06-05T00:07:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2015-01-21T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T15:46:02","slug":"%e2%80%98mixed-race%e2%80%99-the-term-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6240","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mixed Race\u2019: The Term of Choice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;<strong>This analysis shows that the term of choice of most respondents in general population and student samples was \u2018mixed race\u2019.\u00a0<\/strong> Based on the criterion of currency amongst the community described by the terms, \u2018mixed race\u2019 is clearly the strongest candidate for those contexts where a conceptual basis of ethnic\/racial identity or group allegiance or membership is required. Terms invoking two groups \u2013 such as \u2018mixed parentage\u2019, \u2018dual heritage\u2019, and \u2018biracial\u2019 \u2013 are preferred by very few and \u2018mixed origins\u2019 and \u2018mixed heritage\u2019 fare little better, although few find them offensive.\u00a0 Others such as \u2018multi-ethnic\u2019 and \u2018mixed cultural\u2019 have not entered the popular lexicon. Yet concern about the disputed meaning of race \u2013 and the historical legacy of the term \u2013 make the widespread adoption of \u2018mixed race\u2019 unattractive to some sociologists and anthropologists&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Aspinall, Peter J.<\/strong><\/a>, 2009. \u201c\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=401\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed race\u2019, \u2018mixed origins\u2019 or what? Generic terminology for the multiple racial\/ethnic group population<\/a>,\u201d <em>Anthropology Today <\/em>Volume 25, Issue 2, 3-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;This analysis shows that the term of choice of most respondents in general population and student samples was \u2018mixed race\u2019.\u00a0 Based on the criterion of currency amongst the community described by the terms, \u2018mixed race\u2019 is clearly the strongest candidate for those contexts where a conceptual basis of ethnic\/racial identity or group allegiance or membership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","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=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}