Replication Data for: Racial Identity, Group Consciousness, and Attitudes: A Framework for Assessing Multiracial Self-Classification

Multiracial self-classifiers are the fastest-growing racial population in the U.S. While their rise signals a sharp departure from racial norms of hypodescent, little is known about the sociopolitical meanings attached to multiracial labels. Here, we develop a theoretical framework for understanding multiracials' sense of racial group identity, linked fate, and racial attitudes. Leveraging the largest national opinion survey of multiracial adults to date, we compare the identity and attitudinal profiles of the two largest multiracial groups in the country—White-Asians and White-Blacks—with those of their component monoracial groups. We find that while explicit racial attitudes are occasionally at odds with their implicit attitudes, overall, the assertion of dual racial membership for White-Asian and White-Black multiracials does not reflect equal attachment to their constituent backgrounds, but rather greater attachment and solidarity with their minority race. These findings suggest that members of these multiracial groups are likely to align themselves with their minority background on political issues that are racial in nature.