The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification |
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Authors: | Hephzibah V Strmic‐Pawl |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology and Sociology, Coastal Carolina University |
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Abstract: | Early research on multiracials documents the existence of a newly emergent population, those who identify with more than one race or what is commonly now known as multiracials. Contemporary research on multiracialism has a new focus on the stratification that multiracials experience and how multiracials may be influencing a new racial hierarchy. This paper discusses some of the primary issues of multiracialism and stratification including colorism, the racial hierarchy, social class, gender and sexual orientation, and multiracial as a celebrity‐like status. As the multiracial population grows, so must the field of multiracialism grows to include critical issues and questions regarding stratification. |
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