{"id":6649,"date":"2010-04-16T01:46:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T01:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2010-04-16T01:46:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T01:46:14","slug":"opting-for-white-choice-fluidity-and-racial-identity-construction-in-post-civil-rights-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6649","title":{"rendered":"Opting for White: choice, fluidity and racial identity construction in post civil-rights America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tigger.uic.edu\/~rockquem\/optingforwhite.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Opting for White: choice, fluidity and racial identity construction in post civil-rights America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/10909524\" target=\"_blank\">Race &amp; Society<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 5, Issue 1\u00a0(2002)<br \/>\n<em>Symposium on The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the United States<\/em> edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/fds.duke.edu\/db\/Provost\/clacs\/silva\" target=\"_blank\">Eduardo Bonilla-Silva<\/a><br \/>\nPages 49\u201364<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.las.uic.edu\/depts\/soc\/kerry-ann-rockquemore-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Ann Rockquemore<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Univerisity of Illinois, Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.babson.edu\/academics\/faculty\/parend.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Arend<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Historically, racial identity for persons with one Black and one White parent assumed the development of a Black identity in accordance with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>. However, empirical research on the multiracial population suggests that there exists wide variation in racial identification. We explore the interpretive power of <a href=\"http:\/\/fds.duke.edu\/db\/Provost\/clacs\/silva\" target=\"_blank\">[Eduardo] Bonilla-Silva<\/a>\u2019s Latin Americanization model to explain racial identity construction among a sample of 259 mixed-race respondents.<strong>We highlight case studies of individuals who have constructed a White identity in order to illustrate how structural changes in race relations have increased the range of racial identities available to multiracial people.<\/strong> While we observe variation in racial identification among our respondents, their \u201cchoices\u201d continue to be differentially available due to their physical appearance and social context.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/tigger.uic.edu\/~rockquem\/optingforwhite.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opting for White: choice, fluidity and racial identity construction in post civil-rights America Race &amp; Society Volume 5, Issue 1\u00a0(2002) Symposium on The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the United States edited by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Pages 49\u201364 Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology Univerisity of Illinois, Chicago Patricia Arend, Lecturer in Sociology Babson [&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":[319,106,2792,2793],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-eduardo-bonilla-silva","tag-kerry-ann-rockquemore","tag-patricia-arend","tag-race-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","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=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}