Racial Identity Contestation: Mapping and Measuring Racial Boundaries

Vargas, Nicholas; Kingsbury, Jared

doi:10.1111/soc4.12395

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“…It is important to point out that differences by phenotype are distinct from differences between internal (subjective self-identification) and observed (the race others assume you to be) R/E (Roth, 2010; Vargas & Kingsbury, 2016). Racial identity contestation refers to when one identifies as one R/E but is perceived by most others as a different R/E.…”

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How Administrative Data Collection and Analysis Can Better Reflect Racial and Ethnic Identities

Viano

Baker

2020

Review of Research in Education

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Measuring race and ethnicity for administrative data sets and then analyzing these data to understand racial/ethnic disparities present many logistical and theoretical challenges. In this chapter, we conduct a synthetic review of studies on how to effectively measure race/ethnicity for administrative data purposes and then utilize these measures in analyses. Recommendations based on this synthesis include combining the measure of Hispanic ethnicity with the broader racial/ethnic measure and allowing individuals to select more than one race/ethnicity. Data collection should rely on self-reports but could be supplemented using birth certificates or equivalent sources. Collecting data over time, especially for young people, will help identify multiracial and American Indian populations. For those with more complex racial/ethnic identities, including measures of country of origin, language, and recency of immigration can be helpful in addition to asking individuals which racial/ethnic identity they most identify with. Administrative data collection could also begin to incorporate phenotype measures to facilitate the calculation of disparities within race/ethnicity by skin tone. Those analyzing racial/ethnic disparities should understand how these measures are created and attempt to develop fieldwide terminology to describe racial/ethnic identities.

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How Administrative Data Collection and Analysis Can Better Reflect Racial and Ethnic Identities

Viano

Baker

2020

Review of Research in Education

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“…), then having data on how others perceive a person rather than self-identification can correlate better with inequality measures. Vargas and Kingsbury (2016:719) wrote a critical review on “racial identity contestation” or “the discordance between racial identity and racial identification given the racial categories available” and how understanding racial identity contestation is useful for understanding ongoing racial projects and implications for studying racial inequality. Saperstein (2012) found that income and health care correlate with two measures of racial identity: how a person self-identifies and an assigned identity by an interviewer.…”

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Race Counts: Racial and Ethnic Data on the U.S. Census and the Implications for Tracking Inequality

Strmic-Pawl

Jackson

Garner

2017

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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This article is a critical review of racial and ethnic categories on the U.S. Census with a focus on how the census categories affect opportunities to track racial and ethnic inequality. The authors summarize how motivations behind the census categories changed from a historical basis in controlling people of color and protecting Whiteness toward a contemporary orientation around equity. Yet, many issues remain that confound the racial and ethnic census data, which are then used in research. A look at these issues and possible changes for the upcoming 2020 census serves as a critical reminder of the limitations of the census data. Taking this information into account, the authors conclude with comments and suggestions on the principles underlying racial and ethnic data collection on the census and the implications for tracking inequality.

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“…Other work has begun to question the subjective and cultural adequacy of fixed racial and ethnic classifications (Boehmer et al 2002;Brown, Hitlin, and Elder 2006;Harris and Sim 2002;Roth 2016;Saperstein 2012Saperstein , 2013Saperstein and Penner 2012). Studies have found significant variation between how researchers perceive and classify their subjects' race and the self-identified racial identities of those subjects (Boehmer et al 2002;Brown et al 2006;Harris and Sim 2002;Roth 2016;Vargas and Kingsbury 2016;Vargas and Stainback 2016). A given individual's racial identity can shift over time as well (Saperstein 2012(Saperstein , 2013Saperstein and Penner 2012).…”

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Race as an Open Field: Exploring Identity beyond Fixed Choices

Croll

Gerteis

2017

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Recent work on shifting racial classifications and the fluidity of racial identities in the United States has questioned the subjective and cultural adequacy of dominant racial and ethnic classifications. The cultural legitimacy of biracial, hybrid, and contextual racial identifications appears to be increasing, and the U.S. census now allows Americans to choose multiple races (Brunsma and Rockquemore 2002; Liebler et al. 2017; Rockquemore and Brunsma 2008). According to Brunsma and Rockquemore (2002:112-13), such changes cast "serious doubt on the validity of races as social identities. .. [since] individuals may no longer view themselves in mutually exclusive ways and, at a deeper level, ... others may not view them as members of distinct racial groups." Are traditional racial categories breaking down? This paper examines how Americans racially identify themselves when they are not constrained by traditional fixed-choice categories. We use data from a nationally representative survey panel that included two sets of racial and ethnic identifiers collected at different times: a standard fixed-choice race question that respondents answered when they entered the panel and another asked at the time of 748425S REXXX10.

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Racial Identity Contestation: Mapping and Measuring Racial Boundaries

Cited by 38 publications

References 67 publications

How Administrative Data Collection and Analysis Can Better Reflect Racial and Ethnic Identities

How Administrative Data Collection and Analysis Can Better Reflect Racial and Ethnic Identities

Race Counts: Racial and Ethnic Data on the U.S. Census and the Implications for Tracking Inequality

Race as an Open Field: Exploring Identity beyond Fixed Choices

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