The Racial Frontier: Machine Learning, Biracials, and the Future of Racial Group Boundaries

• In Event: Methodological Advances in Race and Ethnic Politics

Brief Overview

I develop a new machine learning method for comparing political groups and apply it here to assess the future political impact of Biracials. Evidence suggests adherence to hypodescent (the one-drop-rule) may be dissipating overtime.

Author

• Gregory John Leslie, The Ohio State University