{"id":7269,"date":"2010-05-19T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:37:12","slug":"census-trend-shows-mixed-race-americans-are-more-likely-to-identify-with-their-multiracial-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7269","title":{"rendered":"Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/articles\/2010\/5\/18\/census-trend-shows-mixed-race-americans-are-more-l\/\" target=\"_blank\">Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Bruin<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/articles\/2010\/5\/18\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010-05-18<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:bwong@ucla.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Wong<\/a><\/strong>, Bruin contributor<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex racial background by checking all the boxes he saw fit.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to exclusively check \u201cBlack, African Am., or Negro\u201d and the fractured response that followed speaks to the complex nature of being mixed race today, said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthro.ucla.edu\/people\/faculty?lid=491\" target=\"_blank\">Kyeyoung Park<\/a>, an associate professor of sociocultural anthropology at UCLA who teaches a class about race.<\/p>\n<p>A new generation of mixed-race people are coming into their own this decade, and as they do, many are more comfortable self-identifying in a way that encompasses all of their background, Park said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anderson.ucla.edu\/x15544.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Unzueta<\/a>, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management who conducted a study that showed that self-identified mixed-race children were better adjusted in school, said he was somewhat surprised by Obama\u2019s decision. Given the president\u2019s discussion of his mixed heritage during the primaries, he said he expected a census answer more in line with his talk on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>But the decision also speaks to the reality that the way Americans talk about race is not always the way they think, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people are more comfortable with having a mixed-race background, but there still isn\u2019t a label that we\u2019re comfortable with in society,\u201d Unzueta said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/articles\/2010\/5\/18\/census-trend-shows-mixed-race-americans-are-more-l\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-05-18 Brittany Wong, Bruin contributor When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,33,125,6,26,394,20],"tags":[3031,3032,3033,3034,4107],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-brittany-wong","tag-daily-bruin","tag-kyeyoung-park","tag-miguel-unzueta","tag-university-of-california-at-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}