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ERIC Number: EJ745369
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Dec
Pages: 27
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7732
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Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed-Race Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
Brunsma, David L.
Social Forces, v84 n2 p1131-1157 Dec 2005
In this article, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged children is used from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to explore the structure of parental racial designation of mixed-race children. The variation in these parental designations of a variety of mixed-race children is described. Parental racial designations in the three most common majority-minority interracial couplings--White/Hispanic, Black/White and Asian/White--are predicted using multinomial logistic regression models. The results may indicate a movement by the parents of these multiracial children away from minority status through racial labeling and towards "multiracial" and "White"--movements that are predicated upon gender, class and context. Critical discussions of the implications of these results as well as directions for future research are offered.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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