Political actions and outcomes depend on people's preferences over candidates, policies,
and other politically relevant phenomena. For this reason, a great deal of political activity …

Scholarship in the area of group identity has expanded our understanding of how group
consciousness and linked fate operate among racial and ethnic minority populations in the …

Historically, minority status has been linked with visibility as a non-White person, and such
phenotypical visibility has marked people in terms of racial stigmas and discrimination. But …

The meaning of skin color in America has often been understood in the context of Black–
White racial dynamics. However, as the soon-to-be largest ethnoracial group in the United …

While pundits point to multiracial Americans as new evidence of a harmonious ethnic
melting pot, in reality mixed race peoples have long existed in the United States. Rather than …

In 2010, approximately nine million Americans self‐identified with more than one race on the
US Census–a 32 percent increase since 2000. In this paper, I review the growing body of …

Although scholars of representation have examined variation in voter support conditional on
shared demographic traits, we know little about how voters respond to candidates who …

Shifting racial dynamics in the US have heightened the salience of White racial identity, and
a sense that Whites' social status and resources are no longer secure. At the same time, the …

The 2000 US census was the first in which respondents were permitted to self-identify with
more than one race. A decade later, multiple-race identifiers have become one of the fastest …

Research has yet to examine variability in how strongly individuals claim the unconventional
Multiracial identity and why. In two studies, we examined mixed-race individuals' strength of …