Racial Formation in Perspective: Connecting Individuals, Institutions, and Power Relations

Saperstein, Aliya; Penner, Andrew M.; Light, Ryan

doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-071312-145639

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“…For example, cross-group differences in levels and types of response change may reflect important differences in the social construction of race/ethnicity across groups. The results also have consequential implications for social scientists who take into account race and/or ethnicity yet rely on the implicit assumption that these are life-long, immutable characteristics (see Saperstein, Penner, and Light 2013). Our work highlights the extent to which this assumption is untenable, as well as areas where the assumption holds.…”

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America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

Lieble¹,

Rastogi²,

Fernández³

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Race and ethnicity responses can change over time and across contexts -a component of population change not usually taken into account. To what extent do race and/or Hispanic origin responses change? Is change more common to/from some race/ethnic groups than others? Does the propensity to change responses vary by characteristics of the individual? To what extent do these changes affect researchers? We use internal Census Bureau data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses in which individuals' responses have been linked across years. Approximately 9.8 million people (about 6 percent) in our large, non-representative linked data have a different race and/or Hispanic origin response in 2010 than they did in 2000. Several groups experienced considerable fluidity in racial identification: American Indians and Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, and multiple-race response groups, as well as Hispanics when reporting a race. In contrast, race and ethnic responses for single-race non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Asians were relatively consistent over the decade, as were ethnicity responses by Hispanics. People who change their race and/or Hispanic origin response(s) are doing so in a wide variety of ways, as anticipated by previous research. For example, people's responses change from multiple races to a single race, from a single race to multiple races, from one single race to another, and some people add or drop a Hispanic response. The inflow of people to each race/Hispanic group is in many cases similar in size to the outflow from the same group, such that cross-sectional data would show a small net change. We find response changes across ages, sexes, regions, and response modes, with variation across groups. Researchers should consider the implications of changing race and Hispanic origin responses when conducting analyses and interpreting results.

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America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

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Rastogi²,

Fernández³

et al. 2017

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“…First, the origins of White privilege as we see it manifest in everyday life, are in fact born of White supremacy. Individuals who are constructed as White (Painter, 2010;Saperstein, Penner, & Light, 2013) would not enjoy the benefits of that label and status were it not for the ideological foundation propping up the assertion that Whiteness is superior and justifies an unearned merit that individuals constructed as other races are not owed (McIntosh, 2015). Second, to entertain a discussion about colorblindness absent an examination of how normalizing and standardizing notions of White supremacy insidiously permeate our social institutionseven the darkest among them, including the carceral state-undermines our aspirational efforts towards social justice.…”

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An historical review of racial bias in prison-based substance abuse treatment design

Kerrison

2017

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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This study leverages critical race and legal epidemiological frameworks to illustrate the race-based historical evolution of U.S. rehabilitation paradigms directed at imprisoned heroin and opioid users. What began as a racist early-20th-century federal antinarcotic trafficking effort has since assumed a state-based treatment agenda whose programmatic operations are largely based in correctional settings disproportionately reserved for poor substance abusers of color. Even in contemporary carceral facilities, where incarcerated populations are teeming with White addicts, in the aggregate, White drug abusers have been protected from the depraved, incorrigible, and inherently pathological drug-using caricature assigned to their non-White counterparts. This historical examination demonstrates how links between broader drug policy and prison-based drug treatment support a legally codified White supremacist narrative that erodes health and wellbeing for program participants of color, and the communities to which they inevitably return.

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“…This paper assumes a social constructionist view of ethnicity, race, and nationality (Brubaker 2009(Brubaker , 2012Omi and Winant 1986;Saperstein, Penner and Light 2013;Winant 2000) which, in turn, is tied to a broader literature on the social construction of groups and group boundaries (Bernstein 2005;Lamont and Molnár 2002). Race/ethnicity is always socially constructed and, in the United States and in many other countries, is also a structure of domination and a basis for social closure.…”

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“…3 The literature on the social construction of race and ethnicity contains many nuances and debates about boundary-formation and the history of ethnic categories that cannot be addressed in this paper including the historical development of ethnic identities out of smaller placeoriented identities in the process of nation-formation, the differences between group's accounts of their origins and more objective histories, the ways racial classification schemes vary among the nations of the Americans and over time, and the active processes of group-making and boundary construction. See (Marx 1996), (Alonso 1994), (Olzak 2004) and (Saperstein et al 2013) for reviews of these issues. Like age or income, ethnic or racial boundaries can be fluid and continuously variable and still have importance in a structure of domination.…”

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The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements

Oliver¹

2017

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This paper draws on work in the social construction of race and ethnicity to explain why race/ethnic divisions are so often axes of domination and why these divisions are central to social movements. Ethnic/racial groups are constructed in political processes that are intertwined with state formation and social movements. Processes of state formation and collective action create ethnic/racial groups, define majorities and minorities, and create racial/ethnic structures of domination. Physical and social segregation in tandem with intergenerational inheritance creates network cliquing that reinforces group boundaries, group differences, and group interests. Movements by members of dominant racial/ethnic majorities differ from movements by members of subordinate racial/ethnic minorities in key ways including access to democratic processes for achieving group goals, experience of repression, need for allies, identity construction, processes of consciousness raising, and bases of mobilization. The "ethnic dimensions" matter for all social movements.

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Racial Formation in Perspective: Connecting Individuals, Institutions, and Power Relations

Cited by 112 publications

References 142 publications

America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

An historical review of racial bias in prison-based substance abuse treatment design

The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements

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