Not Black-Alone: The 2008 Presidential Election and Racial Self-Identification among African Americans

Patrick Mason

The Review of Black Political Economy, 2017, vol. 44, issue 1, 55-76

Abstract: Abstract This paper estimates a reduced form racial identity equation for a sample of African American survey respondents. The change in a state’s fraction of white votes for Obama in 2008 relative to Kerry in 2004 provides an empirical proxy for a change in white antagonism toward African Americans. Using Current Population Survey data from 2003 to 2013, this paper finds that there is a positive and statistically significant Obama-effect on African American self-identification as mixed-race rather than as black-alone.

Keywords: Racial identity; Racial inequality; African American; Multi-racial; Obama (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J16 J21 J31 J61 J7 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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