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  • Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity

    Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity University of California, Irvine 2009-01-05 Laura Rico, University Communications Andrew Penner studies how social status shapes ethnicity Andrew Penner studies how perception of race can change, depending on one’s social status.Losing your job or doing jail time can affect how people perceive your racial background, according to…

  • How Social Status Shapes Race

    How Social Status Shapes Race Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume 105, Number 50 (2008-12-16) pages 19628-19630 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805762105 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Edited by Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley We show that racial perceptions…

  • Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification

    Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 10 pages Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Recent research has demonstrated the existence of fluidity in both racial self-identification and interviewer classification.…