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

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  • Patrick L. Mason

    (Florida State University)

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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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  • Patrick L. Mason, 2017. "Not Black-Alone: The 2008 Presidential Election and Racial Self-Identification among African Americans," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 44(1), pages 55-76, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:blkpoe:v:44:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s12114-017-9247-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s12114-017-9247-z
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    Keywords

    Racial identity; Racial inequality; African American; Multi-racial; Obama;
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    JEL classification:

    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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