Multi-racial Adolescents Change Their Racial Identification Over Time
Adolescents from multi-racial families tend to shift their reported racial category as they move from early adolescence to young adulthood, suggesting that the assumption of race as "fixed" is especially unjustified for multiracial individuals. This finding comes from a study published in the September/October issue of the journal Child Development. The study was supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).The researchers used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative sample of American adolescents, to examine patterns of responses to the question "What is your race?" from children aged 14 through 18, and then again five years later. The question uses the same categories asked in the 2000 Census, suggesting that national statistics about race might assume more stability than is warranted.
They found that the most common pattern of change was for a teen to add (diversify) or subtract (consolidate) a racial category. In fact, more adolescents changed their category over time than stayed the same. Thus, someone who selected "Black" and "White" as racial categories was much more likely to drop one the next time they were asked to report their race.
Researchers also found that teens who categorized themselves as Native-American were most likely to switch across time, suggesting that this identity is an especially fluid one within the American context.
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Toutes ces recherches du numéro 5 à paraître de la revue Child Development dirigée par la Society of Research in Child Development.
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