{"id":11180,"date":"2011-01-01T23:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T23:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2011-01-01T23:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T23:11:29","slug":"blurred-borders-for-some-but-not-%e2%80%9cothers%e2%80%9d-racialization-%e2%80%9cflexible-ethnicity%e2%80%9d-gender-and-third-generation-mexican-american-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11180","title":{"rendered":"Blurred Borders for Some but not \u201cOthers\u201d: Racialization, \u201cFlexible Ethnicity,\u201d Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/sop.2010.53.1.45\" target=\"_blank\">Blurred Borders for Some but not \u201cOthers\u201d: Racialization, \u201cFlexible Ethnicity,\u201d Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/loi\/sop\" target=\"_blank\">Sociological Perspectives<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/toc\/sop\/53\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 53, Number 1<\/a> (Spring 2010)<br \/>\nPages 45\u201372<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/sop.2010.53.1.45\" target=\"_blank\">10.1525\/sop.2010.53.1.45<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.ku.edu\/people\/Vasquez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica M. Vasquez<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How are the lives of middle-class third-generation Mexican Americans both racialized and gendered? Third-generation Mexican Americans in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> experience a racialization process continuum that extends from \u201cflexible ethnicity,\u201d the ability to be considered an \u201cinsider\u201d in different racial\/ethnic communities, to racialization as nonwhite that is enforced through the deployment of negative stereotypes. Using interview data, the author finds that women are afforded more \u201cflexible ethnicity\u201d than men. <strong>Accordingly, men are more rigorously racialized than women. Women are racialized through exoticization, whereas men are racialized as threats to safety.<\/strong> Lighter skinned individuals escaped consistent racialization. These findings have consequences for the incorporation possibilities of later-generation Mexican Americans, as women and light-skinned (often multiracial) individuals are more frequently granted \u201cflexible ethnicity\u201d and less strongly racialized than men and dark-skinned (often monoracial) individuals. Even among the structurally assimilated, contemporary racial and gender hierarchies limit the voluntary quality of ethnicity among third-generation Mexican Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/doi\/pdf\/10.1525\/sop.2010.53.1.45\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blurred Borders for Some but not \u201cOthers\u201d: Racialization, \u201cFlexible Ethnicity,\u201d Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity Sociological Perspectives Volume 53, Number 1 (Spring 2010) Pages 45\u201372 DOI: 10.1525\/sop.2010.53.1.45 Jessica M. Vasquez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Kansas How are the lives of middle-class third-generation Mexican Americans both racialized and gendered? Third-generation Mexican Americans in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20],"tags":[455,4957,4958,3133],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-california","tag-jessica-m-vasquez","tag-jessica-vasquez","tag-sociological-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}