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Health & Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity
J. Richard Udry, PhD; Rose Maria Li, PhD; Janet Hendrickson-Smith, MA
American Journal of Public Health; Nov. 2003
Abstract:
Objectives. This study compared the health and risk status of adolescents who identify with 1 race with those identifying with more than 1 race.
Methods. Data are derived from self-reports of race, using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), which provides a large representative national sample of adolescents in grades 7 through 12. Respondents could report more than 1 race.
Results. Mixed-race adolescents showed higher risk when compared with single-race adolescents on general health questions, school experience, smoking and drinking, and other risk variables.
Conclusions. Adolescents who self-identify as more than 1 race are at higher health and behavior risks. The findings are compatible with interpreting the elevated risk of mixed race as associated with stress.
Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification in Multiracial Adolescents
Melissa Herman
Child Development, May/June 2004, Volume 75, No. 3
Abstract:
This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with each other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures. The multiracial categories used here are derived from youths' reports of their own and their parents' race(s). Comparisons are made within groups of multiracial respondents who make different choices among single-race categories. Results show differences between subgroups in strength and importance of ethnic identity, self-esteem, and perceptions of ethnic discrimination. Multinomial logistic regression shows further that physiognomy, ethnic identity, and race of co-resident parent(s) are significantly associated with reported race. Also related to racial identification among part-Hispanic youth are the racial distribution and socioeconomic status of their neighborhoods and the racial distributions of their schools.
Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students
Kristen A. Renn
The Review of Higher Education, Summer 2000, Volume 23, No. 4
Abstract:
Despite significant and increasing numbers of biracial and multiracial students, almost nothing is known about their development and interactions in the college environment. This topic has special relevance to higher education at a time when multiraciality has become a matter of political and popular interest. A political movement of mixed-race people emerged in the last decade, demanding attention to mixed-race students in K-12 education and changes in data collection by racial group membership on the U.S. 2000 census. For the first time, census respondents will be offered the option of selecting one or more racial categories. Prior to the October 1997 change in the census guidelines, studies showed that less than 2% of the population claimed to belong to more than one of the government's existing racial categories. While this number is not very large compared to the general population, a change in how these individuals indicated their racial group categorization on the census could significantly influence racial group statistics used to enforce various civil rights laws.
A few years ago I was given these articles (among others) to read while taking an adolescent psychology/development course, and I think it's fair to say that I saw some truth in them, although I wasn't blown out of the water.
Do you see validity in these studies, or do you find them to be over-analyzing tools that tuck biracial/multiracial folks under a lens that some of us have come to ignore, or even hate?
Yeah, it's a bit of reading. Don't hate; let me jingle my literary bling.
J. Richard Udry, PhD; Rose Maria Li, PhD; Janet Hendrickson-Smith, MA
American Journal of Public Health; Nov. 2003
Abstract:
Objectives. This study compared the health and risk status of adolescents who identify with 1 race with those identifying with more than 1 race.
Methods. Data are derived from self-reports of race, using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), which provides a large representative national sample of adolescents in grades 7 through 12. Respondents could report more than 1 race.
Results. Mixed-race adolescents showed higher risk when compared with single-race adolescents on general health questions, school experience, smoking and drinking, and other risk variables.
Conclusions. Adolescents who self-identify as more than 1 race are at higher health and behavior risks. The findings are compatible with interpreting the elevated risk of mixed race as associated with stress.
Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification in Multiracial Adolescents
Melissa Herman
Child Development, May/June 2004, Volume 75, No. 3
Abstract:
This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with each other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures. The multiracial categories used here are derived from youths' reports of their own and their parents' race(s). Comparisons are made within groups of multiracial respondents who make different choices among single-race categories. Results show differences between subgroups in strength and importance of ethnic identity, self-esteem, and perceptions of ethnic discrimination. Multinomial logistic regression shows further that physiognomy, ethnic identity, and race of co-resident parent(s) are significantly associated with reported race. Also related to racial identification among part-Hispanic youth are the racial distribution and socioeconomic status of their neighborhoods and the racial distributions of their schools.
Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students
Kristen A. Renn
The Review of Higher Education, Summer 2000, Volume 23, No. 4
Abstract:
Despite significant and increasing numbers of biracial and multiracial students, almost nothing is known about their development and interactions in the college environment. This topic has special relevance to higher education at a time when multiraciality has become a matter of political and popular interest. A political movement of mixed-race people emerged in the last decade, demanding attention to mixed-race students in K-12 education and changes in data collection by racial group membership on the U.S. 2000 census. For the first time, census respondents will be offered the option of selecting one or more racial categories. Prior to the October 1997 change in the census guidelines, studies showed that less than 2% of the population claimed to belong to more than one of the government's existing racial categories. While this number is not very large compared to the general population, a change in how these individuals indicated their racial group categorization on the census could significantly influence racial group statistics used to enforce various civil rights laws.
A few years ago I was given these articles (among others) to read while taking an adolescent psychology/development course, and I think it's fair to say that I saw some truth in them, although I wasn't blown out of the water.
Do you see validity in these studies, or do you find them to be over-analyzing tools that tuck biracial/multiracial folks under a lens that some of us have come to ignore, or even hate?
Yeah, it's a bit of reading. Don't hate; let me jingle my literary bling.