{"id":7494,"date":"2010-06-09T05:08:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T05:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2015-07-25T03:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:10:04","slug":"what-does-%e2%80%9cwhite%e2%80%9d-mean-interpreting-the-choice-of-%e2%80%9crace%e2%80%9d-by-mixed-race-young-people-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7494","title":{"rendered":"What Does \u201cWhite\u201d Mean? Interpreting the Choice of \u201cRace\u201d by Mixed Race Young People in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/sop.2010.53.2.287\" target=\"_blank\">What Does \u201cWhite\u201d Mean? Interpreting the Choice of \u201cRace\u201d by Mixed Race Young People in Britain<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/loi\/sop\" target=\"_self\">Sociological Perspectives<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.1525\/sop.2010.53.issue-2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 53, Number 2<\/a> (Summer 2010)<br \/>\nPages 287\u2013292<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/sop.2010.53.2.287\" target=\"_blank\">10.1525\/sop.2010.53.2.287<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/s\/song-miri.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miri Song<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/hashem.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ferhana Hashem<\/a><\/strong>, Research Fellow<br \/>\nCentre for Health Services Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the often cited idea that racial identities are socially constructed, and potentially fluid, much public policy is still based on surveys that elicit only one measure of racial identity. A number of U.S. studies have employed &#8220;best single race&#8221; questions on racial identification, in which multiracial respondents are asked to choose only one race to describe themselves. We extend some American studies by examining responses to a &#8220;best single race&#8221; survey question posed to a small sample of multiracial young people in Britain. In-depth interviews with British multiracial respondents are employed to investigate the extent to which a &#8220;best single race&#8221; (BSR) question captures someone&#8217;s sense of attachment and belonging to a particular ethnic or racial group. In particular, we focus on how we should interpret East Asian\/white respondents&#8217; choice of &#8220;white&#8221; as their BSR.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/doi\/abs\/10.1525\/sop.2010.53.2.287\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does \u201cWhite\u201d Mean? Interpreting the Choice of \u201cRace\u201d by Mixed Race Young People in Britain Sociological Perspectives Volume 53, Number 2 (Summer 2010) Pages 287\u2013292 DOI: 10.1525\/sop.2010.53.2.287 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana Hashem, Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent Despite the often cited idea that racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,8,394,10],"tags":[3134,515,3133],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-ferhana-hashem","tag-miri-song","tag-sociological-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","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=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41941,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/41941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}