Research on race homophily in the United States has yet to meaningfully include the growing multiracial population. The present study confronts this challenge by drawing upon recent conceptualizations of race as a multidimensional construct. In aligning this insight with current understandings of homophily, we identify and address several open questions about the origins of race homophily—namely regarding the possibility of peer influence on racial identity and network selection based on multiple facets of race. Data are from 3,036 youth in two large U.S. high schools with sizable proportions of mixed-race students. Using a stochastic actor-oriented model, we find that students choose friends based on similarity across multiple dimensions of racial identity and that peer influence operates to reinforce multiracial youths' racial self-classification rather than to induce change. This points to a system where race homophily arises through multiple selection mechanisms and is reinforced by pressure toward conformity.

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一些鸟类有混合羽毛：将多种族人口带入种族同性恋研究


关于美国种族同性恋的研究尚未有意义地包括不断增长的多种族人口。本研究通过借鉴最近将种族概念化为多维结构来应对这一挑战。在将这一见解与当前对同性恋的理解保持一致的过程中，我们确定并解决了关于种族同性恋起源的几个悬而未决的问题——即关于同伴对种族身份和基于种族多个方面的网络选择的影响的可能性。数据来自美国两所大型高中的 3,036 名青年，其中混血学生的比例相当大。使用随机的面向参与者的模型，我们发现学生根据种族身份的多个维度的相似性来选择朋友，并且同伴影响的作用是加强多种族青年的种族自我分类，而不是诱导变化。这表明了一个系统，在这个系统中，种族同性恋是通过多种选择机制产生的，并因从众的压力而得到加强。