Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification

Gullickson, Aaron; Morning, Ann

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.010

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“…There are two situations in There are also many people reporting one race in one census and reporting an additional race in the other census -this response change pattern is often more common than consistently reporting two races, with the multiple-race response more often in 2010. Gullickson and Morning (2011) and Guo et al (2014) find evidence for relatively clear social rules about which race group part-blacks and part-American Indians should choose, encouraging part-blacks to report only black and part-American Indians to report their non-American Indian group(s). These patterns are also evident in the specific single-race responses given by those people moving between single-and multiple-race responses.…”

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“…Part-Asians have been shown to be subject to a relatively flexible set of social rules about how they will racially classify, though most mixed-heritage 25 Asians report multiple-races (Gullickson and Morning 2011;Liebler and DeRousse-Wu 2012).…”

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“…For instance, the social and legal history of the United States has defined the "black" and "white" categories relatively strictly (Davis 2001;Haney López 1996) and may provide less flexibility for part-blacks and part-whites compared to other multiracial subgroups (Doyle and Kao 2007;Gullickson and Morning 2011;Guo et al 2014;Harris and Sim 2002 Fourth, over the years, the Census Bureau has changed questionnaire design to encourage…”

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America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

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Fernández³

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Race and ethnicity responses can change over time and across contexts -a component of population change not usually taken into account. To what extent do race and/or Hispanic origin responses change? Is change more common to/from some race/ethnic groups than others? Does the propensity to change responses vary by characteristics of the individual? To what extent do these changes affect researchers? We use internal Census Bureau data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses in which individuals' responses have been linked across years. Approximately 9.8 million people (about 6 percent) in our large, non-representative linked data have a different race and/or Hispanic origin response in 2010 than they did in 2000. Several groups experienced considerable fluidity in racial identification: American Indians and Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, and multiple-race response groups, as well as Hispanics when reporting a race. In contrast, race and ethnic responses for single-race non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Asians were relatively consistent over the decade, as were ethnicity responses by Hispanics. People who change their race and/or Hispanic origin response(s) are doing so in a wide variety of ways, as anticipated by previous research. For example, people's responses change from multiple races to a single race, from a single race to multiple races, from one single race to another, and some people add or drop a Hispanic response. The inflow of people to each race/Hispanic group is in many cases similar in size to the outflow from the same group, such that cross-sectional data would show a small net change. We find response changes across ages, sexes, regions, and response modes, with variation across groups. Researchers should consider the implications of changing race and Hispanic origin responses when conducting analyses and interpreting results.

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“…Furthermore, race is sometimes assumed to lose its significance as mixed-race children "redraw" (DaCosta 2007), "blur" (Alba 2009), or "destabilize" (Hollinger 2008; see also Obama 1995) color lines, contributing to the creation of what Michael Lind (1998) has called a "beige majority" (see also gullickson and Morning 2011;Waters 2000;Yancey 2003). Yet research on this new and important topic for exploration (in this volume, see Miri Song, Jennifer Lee, and Alba and Foner) does not necessarily indicate a "postracial" future (see, for example, .…”

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Intermarriage and Integration Revisited

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A nthropologist Edmund Leach, in his discussion of caste and class systems, stated, "In a very fundamental way, we all of us distinguish those who are of our kind from those who are not of our kind by asking ourselves the question: 'Do we intermarry with them?'" (1967, 19). Indeed, social scientists have been drawn to the investigation of intermarriage for over a century: from the classic anthropological studies of the nineteenth century (McLennan 1865; L. Morgan 1870; Tylor 1889); to the development of classical assimilation theory, first by sociologists of the Chicago School led by Robert E. Park (Park and Burgess 1921; Park 1928) and later entrenched by Milton gordon (1964); to studies from more current times, in which the subject has been analyzed from many different disciplines. This fascination with intermarriage can be attributed to the realization that the crossing of racial, ethno-cultural, religious, or class boundaries

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“…Additionally, research suggests that South Asians choose a wide variety of racial descriptors on surveys, which is partially dependent on the question options [13], including which race groups are presented as response options and whether or not respondents can choose multiple races. However, with respect to tobacco use, this is not the only or arguably most important methodological challenge.…”

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Surveillance of Tobacco Use Among South Asians in the US: Are We Underestimating Prevalence?

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This study employed a randomized split sample survey to assess the accuracy of standard tobacco surveillance measures among South Asians living in the US. 219 South Asian adults completed a web-based survey of “standard” tobacco use questions, as they appear in national surveillance surveys, and half were randomly assigned to also receive questions about South Asian tobacco products. Prevalence of tobacco use was compared by experimental condition, assessed by only the standard questions for the control group (N = 116) and by both standard and South Asian questions for the experimental group (N = 103). Among the experimental group, sensitivity and negative predictive value (NPV) of the standard use definitions were calculated, considering the inclusive definitions as the “gold standard.” Prevalence of any tobacco product use was higher among the experimental group, as was prevalence of smokeless tobacco (SLT) use, relative to the control group (34.7 vs. 17.2 % and 21.2 vs. 4.3 %, respectively). 70.6 and 33.3 % of true tobacco users (any product) and SLT users were correctly classified by the respective standard product questions. A majority of gutka, paan with tobacco, and supari with tobacco users (69, 86, and 75 %, respectively) did not otherwise endorse the standard SLT questions. Current tobacco surveillance measures may underestimate the use of tobacco in the South Asian population residing in the US. These results indicate that careful consideration must be given to how tobacco-related questions are presented to minority populations.

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Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification

Cited by 119 publications

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America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

Intermarriage and Integration Revisited

Surveillance of Tobacco Use Among South Asians in the US: Are We Underestimating Prevalence?

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