Making sense of race and racial classification

James, Angela D.

doi:10.1016/s1090-9524(03)00012-3

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“…This stratification is similar to racial disparities in the health benefits of other key socioeconomic resources (Crimmins 2004). This theoretical and methodological perspective advances the sociological understanding of racial stratification beyond attempts to “explain away” residual racial disparities, and toward an understanding of the interactive processes generating inequalities (Brown 2003; James 2008). Racial and ethnic stratification generates barriers both to non-Whites’ attainment of salient socioeconomic resources, and the degree to which they can translate these resources into health advantages.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial and ethnic stratification in the relationship between homeownership and self-rated health

Finnigan

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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Social scientists have long demonstrated that socioeconomic resources benefit health. More recently, scholars have begun to examine the potential stratification in the health returns different groups receive for a given resource. Motivated by fundamental cause theory, this paper examines homeownership as a salient health resource with potentially stratified benefits. Homeowners have significantly greater housing quality, wealth, neighborhood quality and integration, and physical and mental health than renters. However, there are compelling theoretical reasons to expect the health advantage of homeownership to be unequally distributed across racial and ethnic groups. Analyses of the 2012 March Current Population Survey initially suggest all homeowners experience a significant health advantage. Further examination finds robust evidence for a homeowner health advantage among Whites, on par with the difference between the married and divorced. The advantage among minority households is considerably smaller, and not significant among Latinos or Asians. Conditioning on a broad array of observable characteristics, White homeowners emerge as exceptionally healthy compared to White renters and all minority groups. This leads to the unexpected finding that racial/ethnic differences in health are concentrated among homeowners. The findings demonstrate the interactive nature of racial/ethnic stratification in health through both access to and returns from socioeconomic resources.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial and ethnic stratification in the relationship between homeownership and self-rated health

Finnigan

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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“…As James (2008) notes, while race/ ethnicity is a social construct, using race as a control variable, without any contextualization or explanation implies that the casual mechanism for social differences lies in the categories themselves . .…”

Section: Student-level Covariatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging with parents: the relationship between school engagement efforts, social class, and learning

González

Jackson

2013

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

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Using data from the U.S. Department of Education's (2000) Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), this study investigates the relationship between school efforts to engage parents, average socioeconomic status (SES) of families within a school, and kindergarteners' endof-year reading and mathematics achievement. Drawing from Epstein's (2001) parent involvement framework, the 4 types of engagement efforts explored are intended to promote communication, parent volunteering, parent influence in school decision making, and parenting skills. We apply multilevel methods to explore the impact of schools' efforts to engage parents on student achievement. Our findings indicate certain types of school efforts to engage parents influence achievement. Depending on average school SES, efforts to promote volunteering has a differential impact on reading achievement, efforts to involve parents in school decision making has a differential impact on mathematics achievement, and efforts to increase communication and promote parenting skills have a differential impact on reading and mathematics achievement.

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“…In the articles where race is presented as an independent variable (n = 116 or 54%), the analyses attempt to determine whether being White, Black, Hispanic, or Other 6 impact the dependent variable under review (often a form of street crime or some aspect of deviant behavior or connection to the criminal justice system). Specifically, the majority of the studies employ race as a variable in statistical analyses to determine whether it is statistically significant in relation to other social facts or trends (James, 2008). While these studies also look at a variety of other possible variables, the notion that being a particular race still emerges as a viable explanation for the differences in outcomes.…”

Section: Reducing Race To a Variablementioning

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Unveiling White logic in criminological research: an intertextual analysis

Henne¹,

Shah

2015

Contemporary Justice Review

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Critical race scholars have called into question the objective neutrality upon which much positivist social science rests, arguing that it discursively masks how whiteness underpins the normative purview of research design and findings. As the scholarly securing of whiteness takes shape through explicit and discursive mechanisms, this article examines how it is manifest in criminological research through an intertextual analysis of contemporary peer-reviewed scholarship. Examining 558 articles in five recognized journals, this paper documents how blind spots towards race and racial stratification surface in criminological research, arguing that most of the articles analyzed do not simply ignore White privilege; they actively uphold it. Findings suggest that they do so through two means: first by whitewashing race, that is, disregarding how race and racism can differentially affect acts and trends of crime and deviance, and secondly, by narrowly representing race as merely explanatory variable without querying the broader power relations it marks. After discussing how these patterns reveal and uphold whiteness as a normative value, we conclude with a discussion of preliminary steps aimed at exposing and unpacking how White logic informs the field.

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Making sense of race and racial classification

Cited by 48 publications

References 5 publications

Racial and ethnic stratification in the relationship between homeownership and self-rated health

Racial and ethnic stratification in the relationship between homeownership and self-rated health

Engaging with parents: the relationship between school engagement efforts, social class, and learning

Unveiling White logic in criminological research: an intertextual analysis

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