Neighborhood Racial Composition, Institutional Socialization, and Intraracial Feelings of Closeness among Black Americans

Jones, Antwan; Andrews, Marcus R; Policastro, Sara

doi:10.1155/2015/712046

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“…Increasing ethnic diversity within Black America complicates what blackness and race means, creating new forms of identity with the potential to challenge racial hierarchies based on being Black or immigrant status and segmented assimilation success stories (Jones, et al 2015). This multidimensional aspect of experience is absent from much of the empirical attention on how varying Black cultures, histories, and needs produce an ethnically diverse people.…”

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African American and Black Caribbean feelings of closeness to Africans

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African American and Black Caribbean relations dominate research on interactions across black ethnic divides. Using National Survey of American Life data, we explore a different aspect of black interethnic attitudes: how close these groups feel toward Africans. African Americans and Black Caribbeans were largely similar in their feelings of closeness to Africans. For Black Caribbeans, younger and male respondents, those reporting higher levels of financial strain, living in the northeast and persons who immigrated to the United States at least 11 years ago, report feeling especially close to Africans. Being male was the only significant correlate among African Americans. The findings are discussed in relation to how race, ethnicity and national origin shape personal identities within the U.S. and their significance for intergroup perceptions. These broader issues warrant further consideration in light of assertions that race as a defining feature of American life and intergroup relations is obsolete.

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“…Race is also, by definition, a structure of categories and groups (Bonilla-Silva 1999; Golash-Boza 2016; Omi and Winant 1994). 5 How individuals perceive themselves racially is frequently related (but not identical) to how closely they identify with others in their shared categories (Jones, Andrews, and Policastro 2015). Group identity is a product of emotional ties and is shaped by relationships, environment, and social norms (Davenport 2018:91).…”

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Making Minorities or Honorary Whites? Examining Multiracial Self-Concept

Jones,

Frank

2023

Soc Psychol Q

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Since the 1990s, scholars have speculated on the role of multiracials in shaping race relations in the twenty-first century. Drawing from a purposive sample of roughly 600 self-identified multiracials of partial white origin, we examine race making among multiracials through what we are calling self-concept, a conceptualization that runs along two dimensions—identity and closeness—by which we assess the extent to which multiracials align more closely with a white self-concept, more closely with a minority self-concept, or equally. We find that while there is variation, multiracials of partial white ancestry are more likely to express a self-concept that is more aligned with minorities than with whites. Moreover, we find that despite what the literature suggests, variation in self-concept is less associated with ascription than with social/familial context and racial attitudes. These findings suggest that while ascription matters, racial self-concept is primarily shaped through experience.

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A comparative overview of social enterprise ‘ecosystems’ in Scotland and England: an evolutionary perspective

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Bajwa-Patel

Roy

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International Review of Sociology

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Social enterprise has been identified as a culturally and socially constructed phenomenon that varies in its meaning both internationally and within geographic regions. Over recent years there has been increasing academic focus on how social enterprise ecosystems differ across different countries. This focus has been both global (examinations of differences between North American, Asian and European social enterprise) and regional (exploring differences between countries within Europe). There has however, been less focus on the differences in social enterprise ecosystems within countries, where subtle regional differences in the cultural, political and social environment can potentially lead to significant variations in the environment for support. The recent history of the United Kingdom, with devolution for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, has led to all four countries (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England) developing fairly diverse political and policy environments despite sharing relatively similar social and cultural backgrounds. This paper seeks to explore this through the lens of evolutionary theory. Evolutionary theory posits that within an ecosystem all organisms are a product of the evolution of that ecosystem, and that this evolution is based upon genetics, epigenetics and phenotypes. The research reported in this paper draws upon qualitative data gathered as part of a European Commission FP7 project. Semistructured interviews explored the perceptions of a variety of key stakeholders in regards to the historical, socio-political, cultural and regulatory environments, at both local authority/city (either not both) and national levels, in Scotland and England. The results are discussed in relation to evolutionary theory and how socio-political and regulatory differences can lead to the rapid divergence of social enterprise ecosystems.

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Neighborhood Racial Composition, Institutional Socialization, and Intraracial Feelings of Closeness among Black Americans

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African American and Black Caribbean feelings of closeness to Africans

African American and Black Caribbean feelings of closeness to Africans

Making Minorities or Honorary Whites? Examining Multiracial Self-Concept

A comparative overview of social enterprise ‘ecosystems’ in Scotland and England: an evolutionary perspective

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