The Costs of a Costless Community

Waters, Mary C.

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“…Put another way, White need not be capitalized to mirror Black, because “these two identities don’t simply mirror each other—one works through a pronounced group identity; the other more often is lived as unraced individuality” (Painter 2020). Whiteness is a “costless community” (Waters 1990) of unraced individuals who never need to think of themselves of having a race. However, following from the tradition of many scholars, I consider White to be a race, and the capitalization of White pushes us to examine Whiteness as such.…”

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A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion in Ethnoracial Assignment

d’Urso¹

2022

Perspect. polit.

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How do White Americans operationalize Whiteness? This article argues that religion, in conjunction with country of origin, alters how self-identified White Americans assign ethnoracial labels to other groups. To test the role of religion in White assignment, this article uses the case of Muslims and of Americans from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Although MENA individuals are legally classified as White in the United States, they are subjected to racialization and often conflated with Muslims. Using an historical analysis of racial prerequisite court cases and a survey experiment, I find that country of origin and religion play separate, additive roles in racial assignment decisions, both historically and today. These findings also extend to perceived skin tone. This is important because many of the benefits that come from being White depend on whether others perceive an individual as White. Understanding the constitutive parts of Whiteness compels research to be specific when discussing White people and why some “White” people are excluded.

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A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion in Ethnoracial Assignment

d’Urso¹

2022

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“…It is plausible that parents born abroad have different ways of understanding race than parents born in the U.S. who may have a stronger racial awareness and a better understanding of American norms regarding racial classification (e.g., one‐drop rule). It is also possible that foreign‐born blacks are well aware of racial stratification in the U.S. and strive to distance themselves and their children from native‐born blacks (Waters 1994, 1999). According to Holloway et al.…”

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Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data

Khanna

2012

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In 2010, approximately nine million Americans self‐identified with more than one race on the U.S. Census – a 32 percent increase since 2000. In this paper, I review the growing body of research on this population, with a particular focus on identifying and describing factors important in shaping their racial identities. Factors explored include: social norms regarding racial classification, socioeconomic status, racial composition of one’s neighborhood and community, region, socialization by family, age, cohort, genealogical locus of multiracial ancestry, nativity, and phenotype. I discuss the broader implications of findings to‐date, with a particular focus on the ongoing scholarly discourse regarding the collection of race data in the United States.

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Confessions in the Courtroom: An Audience Research on Court Shows

Berti¹

2016

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The Costs of a Costless Community

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A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion in Ethnoracial Assignment

A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion in Ethnoracial Assignment

Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data

Confessions in the Courtroom: An Audience Research on Court Shows

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