Doctoral Dissertation Research: Remaking the Color Line: Social Bases and Implications of the Multiracial Movement

这篇博士论文的研究项目集中在美国种族分类目前的斗争。曾经由一滴规则划得如此清晰和不可磨灭的“肤色线”，正在被一个假定的多种族社区重新划出来。我们认为，这场运动是由多股行动，面向自我表达，家庭和国家。特别是三个问题将被解决：1）导致形成的社会条件的“多种族运动”，2）是否有一个集体的多种族意识正在发展，和3）背后的动机，这种行动。从社会运动研究的见解中得出的假设预测，多种族运动是通过三个关键因素的融合而出现的：1）允许代理人进入政治领域的政治机会，2）允许团体利用这些机会的组织基础，以及3）多种族经验的框架，鼓励围绕这个问题进行更多的组织。数据将包括与创始人，领导人和成员的样本从多种族组织的采访相结合;档案研究，人口统计数据，并在多种族组织赞助的活动实地考察。这项研究将提供所需的多种族流动的系统分析，而迄今为止还没有。

This doctoral dissertation research project focuses on the current struggle over American racial classifications. The "color line," once so clearly and indelibly drawn by the one-drop rule, is being redrawn by a putative multiracial community. We argue that this movement is comprised of multiple strands of action, oriented toward self-expression, family and state. Three issues in particular will be addressed: 1) the social conditions leading to the formation of the "multiracial movement", 2) whether or not a collective multiracial consciousness is developing, and 3) the motivations behind this activism. Hypotheses drawn from the insights of social movement research predict that the multiracial movement has emerged through the convergence of three critical factors: 1) political opportunities that have allowed agents to gain access to the political sphere, 2) an organizational base that allows groups to take advantage of those opportunities, and 3) framings of the experience of multiraciality that encourage more organization around the issue. Data will consist of a combination of interviews with the founders, leaders, and a sample of membership from multiracial organizations; archival research, demographic data, and fieldwork at events sponsored by multiracial organization. The study will provide needed systematic analysis of multiracial movement where none exists to date.