{"id":62731,"date":"2022-01-07T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62731"},"modified":"2022-01-07T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:36:13","slug":"gender-generation-and-multiracial-identification-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62731","title":{"rendered":"Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Demography<\/a>
\nVolume 58, Number 5 (October 2021)<\/a>
\npages 603\u20131630
\nDOI: 10.1215\/00703370-9334366<\/a><\/p>\n

Janet Xu<\/strong><\/a>, Postdoctoral Fellow
\nDepartment of Sociology
\nPrinceton University, Princeton, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n

Aliya Saperstein<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology; Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor in Human Biology
\nStanford University, Stanford, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Ann Morning<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology
\nNew York University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Iverson<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate
\nDepartment of Sociology
\nNew York University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Multiracial self-identification is frequently portrayed as a disproportionately female tendency, but previous research has not probed the conditions under which this relationship might occur. Using the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults, we offer a more comprehensive analysis that considers gender differences at two distinct stages: reporting multiple races in one’s ancestry and selecting multiple races to describe oneself. We also examine self-identification patterns by the generational locus of multiracial ancestry. We find that females are more likely to be aware of multiracial ancestry overall, but only first-generation females are more likely than their male counterparts to self-identify as multiracial. Finally, we explore the role of racial ancestry combination, finding that multiracial awareness and self-identification are likely gendered differently for different segments of the mixed-race population. This offers a more nuanced picture of how gender interacts with other social processes to shape racial identification in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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