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Regimes beyond the One-Drop Rule: New Models of Multiracial Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Genealogy<\/a>
\nVolume 6, Issue 2<\/a>, (2022-06-20)
\npages 57-80
\nDOI: 10.3390\/genealogy6020057<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Ann Morning<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology
\nNew York University<\/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

Janet Xu<\/strong><\/a>, Postdoctoral Fellow
\nInequality in America Initiative
\nHarvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

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The racial classification of mixed-race people has often been presumed to follow hypo-<\/a> or hyperdescent<\/a> rules, where they were assigned to either their lower- or higher-status monoracial ancestor group. This simple framework, however, does not capture actual patterns of self-identification in contemporary societies with multiple racialized groups and numerous mixed-race combinations. Elaborating on previous concepts of multiracial classification regimes, we argue that two other theoretical models must be incorporated to describe and understand mixed-race identification today. One is \u201cco-descent\u201d, where multiracial individuals need not align with one single race or another, but rather be identified with or demonstrate characteristics that are a blend of their parental or ancestral races. The other is the \u201cdominance\u201d framework, a modern extension of the \u201cone-drop<\/a>\u201d notion that posits that monoracial ancestries fall along a spectrum where some\u2014the \u201csupercessive\u201d\u2014are more likely to dominate mixed-race categorization, and others\u2014the \u201crecessive\u201d\u2014are likely to be dominated. Drawing on the Pew Research Center\u2019s 2015 Survey of Multiracial Adults<\/a>, we find declining evidence of hypo- and hyperdescent at work in the United States<\/a> today, some support for a dominance structure that upends conventional expectations about a Black one-drop rule<\/a>, and a rising regime of co-descent. In addition, we explore how regimes of mixed-race classification vary by racial ancestry combination, gender, generation of multiraciality, and the time period in which multiracial respondents or their mixed-race ancestors were born. These findings show that younger, first-generation multiracial Americans, especially those of partial Asian or Hispanic descent, have left hypo- and hyperdescent regimes behind\u2014unlike other young people today whose mixed-race ancestry stems from further back in their family tree.<\/p>\n

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Drawing on the Pew Research Center\u2019s 2015 Survey of Multiracial Adults, we find declining evidence of hypo- and hyperdescent at work in the United States today, some support for a dominance structure that upends conventional expectations about a Black one-drop rule, and a rising regime of co-descent. In addition, we explore how regimes of mixed-race classification vary by racial ancestry combination, gender, generation of multiraciality, and the time period in which multiracial respondents or their mixed-race ancestors were born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[15994,2840,740,562,28827,32731,3122,32732],"class_list":["post-63937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aliya-r-saperstein","tag-aliya-saperstein","tag-ann-j-morning","tag-ann-morning","tag-genealogy","tag-janet-xu","tag-pew-research-center","tag-sarah-iverson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937","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=63937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63939,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937\/revisions\/63939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}