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Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005

¹ University of California at Santa Barbara
² Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: daniellehidalgo{at}gmail.com.

	Abstract

In this work, the authors use statistics from the U.S. Census to examine trends in intermarriage, racial and ethnic combinations, and categorizations among Asian Americans. Specifically, the authors want to consider the extent to which family patterns may contribute to Asian Americans and their descendants’ continuing as distinct, becoming members of some new category or categories, or simply becoming White. Based on the data analysis and discussion, it seems most likely that Whiteness will increasingly depend on the situation: Where there are Asians, Whites, and Blacks, Asians will tend to become White. Where there are only Whites, Asians, including even those of multiracial background, may well continue to be distinguished. Yet people in mixed families will be continually crossing all racial and ethnic lines in the United States, and their numbers will steadily increase.

First published on October 14, 2009
Journal of Family Issues 2009, doi:10.1177/0192513X09350870


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