Marginality, Vulnerability, and Mixed-Race Identity

• In Event: Victimization Risk and Attitudes towards Victims: The Influence of Culture, Immigration and Social Networks

Abstract

We used social network theory to attempt to explain the increased risk of violence for mixed-race individuals in the United States. Relying on a series of analyses of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examined victimization risk for mixed-race Asian-white, Native-white, and black-white students. We found support for our hypothesis that network centrality can explain some of the difference in risk in the case of Asian-white and Native-white students.

Authors

• Marie Wu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

• David Knoke, University of Minnesota Twin Cities