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Echols, Leslie; Ivanich, Jerreed; Graham, Sandra – Child Development, 2018
In the present research, the influence of racial diversity among classmates and friends on changes in racial self-identification among multiracial youth was examined (n = 5,209; M[subscript age] = 10.56 years at the beginning of sixth grade). A novel individual-level measure of diversity among classmates based on participants' course schedules was…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Middle School Students, Peer Relationship, Peer Influence
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Gaither, Sarah E.; Chen, Eva E.; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L.; Ambady, Nalini; Sommers, Samuel R. – Child Development, 2014
Children prefer learning from, and affiliating with, their racial in-group but those preferences may vary for biracial children. Monoracial (White, Black, Asian) and biracial (Black/White, Asian/White) children (N = 246, 3-8 years) had their racial identity primed. In a learning preferences task, participants determined the function of a novel…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Minority Group Children, Preferences, Racial Identification
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Hitlin, Steven; Brown, J. Scott; Elder, Glen H., Jr. – Child Development, 2006
Research on multiracial individuals is often cross-sectional, obscuring the fluid nature of multiracial self-categorization across time. Pathways of racial self-identification are developed from a nationally representative sample of adolescents aged 14-18, measured again 5 years later. A significant proportion of multiracial adolescents change…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Multiracial Persons, Case Studies, Racial Identification