{"id":7145,"date":"2010-05-14T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2010-05-14T21:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T21:25:40","slug":"the-educational-costs-of-being-multiracial-evidence-from-a-national-survey-of-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7145","title":{"rendered":"The Educational Costs of Being Multiracial: Evidence from a National Survey of Adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\/pubs\/pdf\/rr02-521.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Educational Costs of Being Multiracial: Evidence from a National Survey of Adolescents<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PSC Research Report<br \/>\nPopulation Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research<br \/>\nUniversity of Michigan<br \/>\nReport No. 02-521<br \/>\nAugust 2002<br \/>\n24 pages, 5 tables<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allharris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David R. Harris<\/a><\/strong>, Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Cornell University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordschool.umich.edu\/faculty\/Justin_Thomas\" target=\"_blank\">Justin L. Thomas<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Public Policy<br \/>\nGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is clear evidence that the number of multiracial children in the U.S. is growing, yet existing research\u00a0 offers few insights into how outcomes for these children compare to those of their single-racepeers. We address this gap by using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to assess racial differences in education. Specifically, we compare vocabulary scores, grade point averages, and odds of repeating a grade for multiracial and single-race youth. Our findings deviate substantially from the predictions of the marginal man hypothesis, an influential, rarely tested thesis about the consequences of being multiracial. <strong>We find that white\/black youth have outcomes that are unlike those of blacks, and white\/American Indians do not differ from whites, but the situation is more complex for white\/Asians.<\/strong> We close by acknowledging that racial classification is a social process, and discussing the implications of racial fluidity for assessments of educational differences.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\/pubs\/pdf\/rr02-521.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Educational Costs of Being Multiracial: Evidence from a National Survey of Adolescents PSC Research Report Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Report No. 02-521 August 2002 24 pages, 5 tables David R. Harris, Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology Cornell University Justin L. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,681,394,20],"tags":[3005,3004,3002,3003,3006],"class_list":["post-7145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-reports","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-david-harris","tag-david-r-harris","tag-justin-l-thomas","tag-justin-thomas","tag-population-studies-center-at-the-institute-for-social-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145","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=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}