Multiracial identities,single race history: Contemporary consequences of historical race and marriage laws for racial classification |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Rice University, Houston, USA;2. Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA;1. The College of New Jersey, School of Education, Education Building 202C, 2000 Pennington Rd., Ewing Township, NJ 08628, United States;2. Lehigh University, College of Education, Iacocca Hall A-215, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, United States;3. Lehigh University, College of Education, Iacocca Hall A-318, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, United States;1. UNSW Australia and AustLII, Australia;2. University of Technology, Sydney, AustLII, Australia;1. University of Salamanca, Department of Sociology and Ibero-American Institute, Edificio FES, Campus Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain;2. Population Europe – Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Markgrafenstrasse 37, 10117 Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | This work interrogates the role of the law as an “actor” in the spatial patterning of racial classification. Laws governing racial intermarriage represent key ways that rigid distinctions between groups were codified. Critically, there is a great deal of state variation in these laws. We draw on a unique data set that combines samples from the 1990 and 2000 Census (5 percent IPUMS) and the 2009–2011 estimates from the American Community Survey with information on state-specific legal bans against intermarriage. Results from multilevel logistic and multinomial analyses indicate that a past of legal regulation is associated with a lower likelihood of a “mixed” classification for the offspring of black-white interracial unions, particularly in the 2009–11 period. Our results provide evidence that place-specific institutional legacies are imprinted on the classification choices made even in the midst of expanding options. |
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| Keywords: | Multiracial Interracial unions Law Racial classification |
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