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

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. Us...

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Published in:The Review of Black political economy 2017, Vol.44 (1-2), p.55-76
Main Author: Mason, Patrick L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Hostility
Identification
Multiracial people
Political Science
Polls & surveys
Presidential elections
Race
Racial identity
Respondents
Sociology
Voter behavior
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0034-6446
1936-4814
DOI:10.1007/s12114-017-9247-z