A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society.

Trotter, Joe William

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“…A literature search yielded virtually no research on these issues using representative samples; convenience samples, typically of students, were the norm. The sole exceptions were studies on differences in math skills among groups, which showed an advantage for whites and men (e.g., Jaynes and Williams 1989;Muller 1998), and on sex differences in preferences for part-time work, which showed higher voluntary part-time employment for women (e.g., Nardone 1995). There is scant evidence that personality, taste, or value differences among workers affect sex differences in the jobs selected (Barry 1987;Filer 1986;Glass and Camarigg 1992;Padavic 1991).…”

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“…To the extent that race-sex groups differ in their average human capital, group differences in the jobs attained will result. Research has consistently documented continuing but decreasing racial differences in education, work experience, and on-the-job training (Council of Economic Advisers 1998) and in reading, math, and science achievement test results (Jaynes and Williams 1989). Sex differences in human capi-tal are primarily limited to work experience and on-the-job training (Reskin and Padavic 1999;Tomaskovic-Devey 1993).…”

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“…The skill deficits approach applies to a somewhat broader array of predictors and has somewhat greater utility, although this conclusion partly relies on speculative skill differentials among groups. Given documented differences in math skills among groups (Jaynes and Williams 1989;Muller 1998), a skills deficit approach could explain the negative effect of math skills on both sex and race segregation. The negative general skill effects on racial representation are weakly consistent with this explanation but only to the degree that controls for workers' human capital do not capture skill disparities.…”

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Assessing Alternative Perspectives on Race and Sex Employment Segregation

Kaufman

2002

Am Sociol Rev

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Four major explanations for employment segregation—skill deficits, worker preferences, economic and organizational structure, and stereotyping/queuing—are assessed using a diverse and overlapping set of predictors: general skills and training, product market structure, race- and sex-typed tasks and conditions, desirable employment and growth rates, and links to other labor market actors. A two-stage measurement and analytic strategy controls for relevant worker-level factors. Data from the 1990 census PUMs are analyzed to measure the employment segregation of black women, black men, and white women in relation to white men across 1,917 labor market positions, net of human capital, family structure, geographic residence and labor supply. Archival data provide measures of variables characterizing labor market positions. Stereotyping and queuing explanations are broadly consistent with nearly all results, while a worker preference approach applies to somewhat fewer predictors and is largely but not wholly compatible with their effects. A skill deficits explanation applies to, and is supported by, a narrow set of findings, while the economic and organizational structure explanations are restricted in their relevance and receive limited support.

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Assessing Alternative Perspectives on Race and Sex Employment Segregation

Kaufman

2002

Am Sociol Rev

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“…The theory of linked fate purports that an individual's closeness to people who identify with a specific racial group is associated with the individual's belief that their life chances are tied to the group (Dawson 1994;Gay and Tate 1998;Jaynes and Williams 1989). Linked fate-believing what happens to a certain racial group impacts you-influences one's politics, ideologies, and self-concept (Dawson 1994;Sellers et al 1997;Simien 2005).…”

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Mixed-Race Ancestry ≠ Multiracial Identification: The Role Racial Discrimination, Linked Fate, and Skin Tone Have on the Racial Identification of People with Mixed-Race Ancestry

Gonlin

2022

Social Sciences

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Mixed-race identification may be complex, in that people with mixed-race ancestry may or may not identify as multiracial. Social experiences, such as experiencing racial discrimination, believing that your fate is connected with specific racialized others, and personal characteristics, such as skin color, all have been theorized to play a role in identification. The Mixed-Race Ancestry Survey (2020) conducted on Mechanical Turk allows me to ask unique questions with a large enough sample of this understudied population to disaggregate by racial ancestries. Only people with mixed-race ancestry are included in this study, but respondents may identify mono- or multiracially. Binary logistic regression models reveal that increased linked fate with a specific racial group is associated with greater odds of racially identifying, at least in part, with that group (e.g., among Asians, greater linked fate with Asians is associated with greater odds of identifying as mono- or multiracially Asian). Increased linked fate with multiracials as a group is also connected to greater odds of identifying as multiracial. In addition, personally experiencing racial discrimination is associated with a greater likelihood of identifying as Black and slightly lower odds of identifying as White or as Latinx. Finally, as skin tone darkens the odds of identifying as Black increase three-fold and the odds of identifying as multiracial increase by 1.3 times. I discuss these findings by racial ancestry groups, noting that being aware of having mixed-race ancestry does not in and of itself predict multiracial identification. Rather, in a social structure that uplifts Whiteness, feeling linked fate, experiencing discrimination, and having darker skin tone are important predictors of identification. These findings highlight the mechanisms connected to racial identification for a population that may feel tied to multiple racial groups and is navigating identification within a White-centric nation.

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Racism in the 1990s: Race-ing to the Year 2000.

Richman¹

1998

Viewing Psychology as a Whole: the Integrative Science of William N. Dember.

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ordon and Meroe (1991) reviewed Jaynes and Williams's (1989) G book titled A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society. Although the reviewers lavished praise on this book, they were critical of the authors' objective, sterile treatment of the United States's "most recalcitrant problem," racism (p. 25). Gordon and Meroe (1991) asserted that it is unconscionable to treat racism without passion and any sense of urgency" (p. 25) and that "objectivity can be a disservice to truth" (p. 28).The present discussion of racism in the 1990s is consistent with Gordon and Meroe's (1991) position. There are no pretenses of sterile objectivity, denial of passion, or denial of a sense of urgency or subtleties relevant to the issue of racism. As Gordon and Meroe (1991) concluded, "an invitation to debate is not sufficient while black babies die of malnutrition and drug and alcohol poisoning, while black children do not have the opportunity to receive the quality of education from which we have benefited, and while black adults are overtaken by the suicidal behavior of substance abuse, black on black violence, ill health, unemployment, crime, despair and defeat" (p. 25).Racism for the past 400 years in America has been driven by a supre-399

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A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society.

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Assessing Alternative Perspectives on Race and Sex Employment Segregation

Assessing Alternative Perspectives on Race and Sex Employment Segregation

Mixed-Race Ancestry ≠ Multiracial Identification: The Role Racial Discrimination, Linked Fate, and Skin Tone Have on the Racial Identification of People with Mixed-Race Ancestry

Racism in the 1990s: Race-ing to the Year 2000.

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