Race 12

Question 1

What is hyperdescent?

Answer 1

Mixed people are assigned to the higher-status of their (two or more) ancestral groups.

Question 2

Define, for each group, whether they follow a pattern of multiple-race identification, hypodescent, or hyperdescent: part-black, part American Indian, part-Asian. Also, why are there differences?

Answer 2

part-black - hypodescent, part American Indian - hyperdescent, part-Asian - multiple-race identification. They reflect different histories of radicalization for people of Asian, African, European, and Native American origin (there is a legacy of hyperdescent). (Gullickson 2011)

Question 3

What percent of individuals from the 2000 claimed a multiracial identity?

Answer 3

2%

Question 4

What are some the possible reasons for part-Asian individuals to claim a multiracial identity?

Answer 4

1) Asian-origin population growth has taken place largely after the period in which strict racial-categorization norms were most likely to be formed. 2) The generational recency of the Asian-American population may mean that a process of immigrant incorporation and/or assimilation is at work. 3) Part-Asian respondents are more likely than others to be the biracial children of single-race parents as opposed to the descendants of interracial unions further back in the family tree. (Gullickson 2011)

Question 5

What fraction of all Mexican immigrants are undocumented?

Answer 5

1/5