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Rachel Butts makes clever use of Peter Blau's social structural theory and 2010 Census Data to examine multiracial identification. Using the census race question that allows respondents to choose more than one racial category, she shows how proportions of biracial Americans vary based on the social structural characteristics of US metropolitan areas. Butts' careful analysis demonstrates the power of macro-scale factors influencing a phenomenon usually considered from micro- or meso-scale perspectives.--Craig St. John, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma The federal statistical system, since 2000, allows Americans to identify with multiple races. Increasingly, people identify with more than one. Between 2000 to 2019, the population identifying with one race grew 16 % but the population identifying with two or more grew by 56 %. This investigator conducted innovative research showing that the proportion of blacks who also identify as white and the proportion of whites who also identify as Asian varies substantially from one metropolis to another. Those differences can be explained by differences in racial residential segregation, by differences in educational attainment, by the relative size of the races and by the percent foreign born. Importantly, the investigator also analyzes differences in the percent of Asians who also identify as black and the percent of blacks who also identify as Asian. This theoretically informed and lucid research will be a model for many studies of how and why we are becoming an increasingly multiple race nation. This is a substantial new contribution to our understanding of race.--Reynolds Farley, University of Michigan

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Rachel Butts is Vice President of Market Intelligence and Research at a major financial institution and earned her Ph.D from Michigan State University in 2016.

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