What is it about?
How does racism affect the growing population of multiracial people? This paper looks at how skin color and self-identificaiton influence the way multiracial people are treated.
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Why is it important?
The findings show that darker skin color puts a person at risk of prejudice more than self-identification. This is important as we work to better understand the dynamic ways that racism works today.
Perspectives
I enjoyed conducting this research. It was a chance to empirically test questions I've had for a long time as a multiracial person with black and white heritage. I hope it's useful for others who want to better understand how racism works to improve scholarship and our efforts for racial justice.
Casey Stockstill
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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This page is a summary of: Does Asserting a Nonblack Identity Elicit Positive Evaluations? White Observers’ Reactions to Black, Biracial, Multiracial, and White Job Applicants, Sociological Perspectives, April 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0731121417702129.
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