Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace
利用美国大型约会网站数据，研究单族裔用户如何回应不同族裔组合的多族裔用户发来的初始信息，检验了四种理论，发现亚裔白人混血者地位提升，黑白混血者处于中间位置，部分多族裔群体存在“红利效应”。
The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent, multiracial in-betweenness, White equivalence, and what we call a multiracial dividend effect. We find no evidence for the operation of hypodescent. Asian-White daters, in particular, are afforded a heightened status, and Black-White multiracials are treated as an in-between group. For a few specific multiracial gender groups, we find evidence for a dividend effect, where multiracial men and women are preferred above all other groups, including Whites.