Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that … model the choice as an extensive-form game, where whites choose to accept or reject a separate mulatto identity and mixed …

-race adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed … establish an identity, and our results indicate that mixed-race youth are finding their own distinct identities, not necessarily …