The Precarious Politics of Performativity: Understanding the Construction of Race through the Behavior of Multiracial Americans

• In Event: Multiracial Politics: The Effects of Fluid Identities and Shifting Boundaries on Multiracial Public Opinion

Brief Overview

Using survey data, I find that feelings of racial precarity motivate multiracial Americans to signal (or "perform") their race to others.

Author

• Savannah Plaskon, University of California, Irvine