Intergenerational Transmission of Race: Permeable Boundaries between 1970 and 2010

Carolyn A. Liebler and Marie DeRousse-Wu

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: We study the social construction of race boundaries by investigating patterns in the race, ancestry, and Mexican origin responses provided for children of 14 types of interracial marriages using dense restricted-use data from 1970 to 2010. Our broader purpose is to expose social processes that convert a newborn child of mixed heritage into an adult person of a particular race. We include a more diverse set of families, a longer time span, and more accurate estimates than prior research. These expansions bear fruit.Taking ancestry responses into account and studying the longer-term patterns reveals that mixed-heritage responses have been common since 1980. Expanding the types of mixed heritage and including double-minorities shows that there is substantial variation in response patterns across the 14 groups.

Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2012-09
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