social factors underlying the individual choice of racial identity. …

This paper contrasts competing theories and evidence on the nature and significance of African American racial identity …. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is …

opened up the question of identity in Irish public culture. This paper examines the processes involved in mediating who … what it says about 21st century Ireland. To develop this argument, I firstly posit identity construction as processual …

when an aspect of social identity is made salient. We find that when ethnic identity is salient to Asian-American subjects …, they make more patient choices. When we make race salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks …) make more risk-averse choices. Making gender identity salient causes choices to conform to gender norms the subject …

% and as many as 33%. The Muslim population - which grew from 1% in 1981 to 4% in 2001 - will, according to our estimates …, represent 14 to 26% of the population by 2051. If current fertility trends remain constant, Islam could represent the majority …