Racial Identity & Text Message Surveying
Nikki Khanna’s Sociology Compass article, Multiracial Americans Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data, reviews the literature on multiracial identity with a critical eye towards the 2010 U.S. Census. Racial identification is complex and difficult to measure because race itself is dynamic; a person’s racial identification may change—especially if the person has the ability to “pass,” or blend into the majority group even though they are, at least in par, a member of the minority group. ...
