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The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification
Author(s) -
StrmicPawl Hephzibah V.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/soc4.12100
Subject(s) - social stratification , stratification (seeds) , hierarchy , sociology , race (biology) , population stratification , population , sexual orientation , gender studies , social hierarchy , demography , social science , political science , biology , seed dormancy , biochemistry , botany , germination , dormancy , genotype , single nucleotide polymorphism , gene , law
Early research on multiracials documents the existence of a newly emergent population, those who identify with more than one race or what is commonly now known as multiracials. Contemporary research on multiracialism has a new focus on the stratification that multiracials experience and how multiracials may be influencing a new racial hierarchy. This paper discusses some of the primary issues of multiracialism and stratification including colorism, the racial hierarchy, social class, gender and sexual orientation, and multiracial as a celebrity‐like status. As the multiracial population grows, so must the field of multiracialism grows to include critical issues and questions regarding stratification.