How the United States Racializes Latinos

Cobas, José A.; Duany, Jorge; Feagin, Joe R.

doi:10.4324/9781315634104

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“…The social boundaries between the U.S. Hispanic white and the non-Hispanic white ethnoracial categories remain murky and highly mutable (Alba 2016; Calderon 1992; Foley 2004; Mora 2014; Padilla 1984; Rumbaut 2006). Today more than half of the over 50 million Hispanics (both native born and immigrant alike) in this country identify as racially white, largely because of their Spanish heritage and a growing reclaiming of it (Cobas, Duany, and Feagin 2009; Fernandez and Argeo 2015; Gonzales-Barrera 2015). The question becomes how they are being received in everyday society as such.…”

Section: Ethnic Self-identification Boundaries and Transitions To Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In both social and institutional interactions, racialization of the category often excludes large numbers of potentially self-identifying Hispanic individuals of more European, African, and Asian racial descent, despite similarly valid ties to Spain and, thus, Hispanic culture, broadly defined (Cobas et al 2009; Golash-Boza and Darity 2008). Research on racial self-identification indicates that this pattern is likely due to varying degrees of social experiences with discrimination, with those that are darker skinned Hispanics more likely to identify with the label (Golash-Boza and Darity 2008).…”

Section: The Historical Roots and Inconsistencies Of Hispanic Panethnmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a related manner, a 29-year-old interviewee on a spousal visa noted that because her name is Maria, anyone looking at her résumé would never accept that she was European, because they would automatically assume that she was from “Brazil or Colombia” and thus potentially undervalue her job application. Evidently, when social interactions are not face to face, a European phenotype is not enough to counteract the salient ethnic markers (Brubaker 2004) of Spanish first and last names, which have been heavily associated with the marginalized Hispanic/Latino group (Almaguer 1994; Cobas et al 2009; Golash-Boza and Darity 2008; Telles and Ortiz 2008).…”

Section: Boundaries the One-name Rule And Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“I’m Not Spanish, I’m from Spain”: Spaniards’ Bifurcated Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Whiteness and Hispanic Panethnic Identity

Soto-Márquez

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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This study counters potentially premature demographic and sociological claims of a large-scale Hispanic transition into mainstream whiteness. Via in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of recently arrived Spanish immigrants in the United States, it presents a distinctive shift in American categorization logic, whereby race and ethnicity switch in order of everyday importance. Despite Spanish immigrants’ direct links to Europe and few structural social boundaries between them and mainstream U.S. whites, their everyday experience is of a largely “symbolic whiteness” that is subservient to the more consequential and essentialist Hispanic panethnic identity. Forced to maneuver this unique “bifurcated ethnicity,” Spaniards highlight a theoretically important deviation from the established ethnic options for European coethnics in the United States. Overall, Spaniards’ ethnoracial adaptations and their identity vary by institutional sites, by social settings, and along gender lines. Their ethnic bifurcation brings into question the overall logic and stability of the U.S. Hispanic/white boundaries.

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Section: Ethnic Self-identification Boundaries and Transitions To Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Historical Roots and Inconsistencies Of Hispanic Panethnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Boundaries the One-name Rule And Discriminationmentioning

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“I’m Not Spanish, I’m from Spain”: Spaniards’ Bifurcated Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Whiteness and Hispanic Panethnic Identity

Soto-Márquez

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Darker-skinned African Americans on average make less money (Bowman et al, 2004; Hersch 2006; Keith and Herring, 1991), live in more highly segregated areas (Massey et al, 2003), and even have a more difficult time garnering votes when running for office than African Americans with lighter skin color (Terkildsen 1993). In short, skin color serves to pattern significant marginalization among African Americans (Cohen 1999).…”

Section: The Study Of Race/ethnicity and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Race as Lived Experience

García¹,

Sánchez²,

Sanchez-Youngman³

et al. 2015

Du Bois Rev.

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A growing body of social science research has sought to conceptualize race as a multidimensional concept in which context, societal relations, and institutional dynamics are key components. Utilizing a specially designed survey, we develop and use multiple measures of race (skin color, ascribed race, and discrimination experiences) to capture race as “lived experience” and assess their impact on Latinos’ self-rated health status. We model these measures of race as a lived experience to test the explanatory power of race, both independently and as an integrated scale with categorical regression, scaling, and dimensional analyses. Our analyses show that our multiple measures of race have significant and negative effects on Latinos’ self-reported health. Skin color is a dominant factor that impacts self-reported health both directly and indirectly. We then advocate for the utilization of multiple measures of race, adding to those used in our analysis, and their application to other health and social outcomes. Our analysis provides important contributions across a wide range of health, illness, social, and political outcomes for communities of color.

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“…At the same time, the categorization of racial groups is associated with social stratification, power, prejudice, discrimination, and inequities. In essence, the categorical variable of race (represented by specific racial groupings) and individuals’ placement of themselves into these categories incorporates a multitude of meanings, nuances, and relationships (Cobas, Duany, and Feagin 2009; Hans and Martinez 1994; Krysan and Lewis 2004).…”

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The Race Project: Researching Race in the Social Sciences Researchers, Measures, and Scope of Studies

García

2017

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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While the concept and measurement of race has been a longstanding focus of social science research, capturing its significance requires a broader notion than utilizing only racial group categories. More recently, race has been treated as both a “characteristic” and a set of experiences that affect a multitude of life conditions and outcomes. This discussion and analysis moves away from treating race as only a categorical and static characteristic to a multi-dimensional concept that is dynamic, relational, and represents the intersection of individual, ecological, and structural components. By exploring the data collection of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and studies that include race as a variable, we were able to trace how race has been used by social scientists over the past 60 years. Using an extensive coding protocol, we have attained key characteristics of the principal investigator(s) (PI), funders, scope of the overall study, and the use of different measures of race. As a result, this “meta-analysis” of social science surveys enabled this researcher to examine how these studies use a wide scope of racial “variables,” and the way in which PI characteristics affected the inclusion of race-related items. In addition, bivariate analysis is presented to examine social scientists’ tendencies in investigating race and inclusion of qualitative examples of item wordings and response categories. This overview of social science studies is placed in the context of conceptual and measurement issues surrounding the use and meaning of race. Hopefully this can serve to advance the discussion and strategic approaches in doing research about race and what should be incorporated in studying race as a lived experience.

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How the United States Racializes Latinos

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“I’m Not Spanish, I’m from Spain”: Spaniards’ Bifurcated Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Whiteness and Hispanic Panethnic Identity

“I’m Not Spanish, I’m from Spain”: Spaniards’ Bifurcated Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Whiteness and Hispanic Panethnic Identity

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