Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census

This study examined the racial identification of biracial Asian children by their parents, in a sample (N=9,513) drawn from 2000 Public Use Microdata Series Census data (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series 2009). I used competing theories of Asian assimilation to examine how characteristics of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonough, Sara Megan
Other Authors: Sociology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36341
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12202009-224408/