Who is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race

By D. Harris, Jeremiah Sim. American Sociological Review, 2002

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Patterns of racial classification in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are examined. The survey's large sample size and multiple indicators of race permit generalizable claims about patterns and processes of social construction in the racial categorization of adolescents. About 12 percent of youth provide inconsistent responses to nearly identical questions about race, context affects one's choice of a single-race identity, and nearly all patterns and processes of racial classification depend on which racial groups are involved. The implications of the findings are discussed for users of data on race in general, and for the new census data in particular.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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The Problem of Defining an Ethnic Group for Public Policy: Who Is Maori and Why Does It Matter? (2004, background): “Harris, D. and J. Sim (2002) “Who is Multiracial?”
“What About the Children?” The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents (2006, background): “As Harris and Sim (2002) discuss, each Add Health survey yields a different population of multiracial adolescents: 6.8 percent chose more than one race on the school survey, 3.6 percent chose more than one race on the home survey, and 4.8 percent had parents of different races.”
To Disclose or Not to Disclose Biracial Identity: The Effect of Biracial Disclosure on Perceiver Evaluations and Target Responses (2009, background): “If we had simply asked “what is your race,” it is likely that many of the participants who we knew from pretest were biracial may not have indicated so during the experiment because of the tendency for racial labels to change (Harris & Sim, 2002; Hitlin et al., 2006).”
The Implications of Racial Misclassification by Observers (2007, background): “…control theory clearly indicates the profound importance of a shared understanding of social categorization on a range of behavioral expectations, including but not limited to dominance, deference, social influence, and affective states. others assume based on our appearance) (Harris and Sim 2002).”
Shades of Race (2016, background): “Gender may also shape classification, since women are more likely to identify as multiracial (D. R. Harris & Sim, 2002) and have more liberal racial attitudes (Johnson & Marini, 1998; Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, & Krysan, 1997).”
The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity: The Case of Multiracial Asians (2004, background): “As in recent work on racial identity (Harris and Sim 2002), I tapped “identity” in different ways.”