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29.04.2017

Not Black-Alone: The 2008 Presidential Election and Racial Self-Identification among African Americans

verfasst von: Patrick L. Mason

Erschienen in: The Review of Black Political Economy | Ausgabe 1-2/2017

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This paper estimates a reduced form racial identity equation for a sample of African American survey respondents. The change in a state’s fraction of white votes for Obama in 2008 relative to Kerry in 2004 provides an empirical proxy for a change in white antagonism toward African Americans. Using Current Population Survey data from 2003 to 2013, this paper finds that there is a positive and statistically significant Obama-effect on African American self-identification as mixed-race rather than as black-alone.

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Titel: Not Black-Alone: The 2008 Presidential Election and Racial Self-Identification among African Americans
verfasst von: Patrick L. Mason
Publikationsdatum: 29.04.2017
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: The Review of Black Political Economy / Ausgabe 1-2/2017
Print ISSN: 0034-6446
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4814
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12114-017-9247-z

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