{"id":15927,"date":"2011-08-29T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15927"},"modified":"2015-10-25T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T20:09:31","slug":"mismatched-racial-identities-colourism-and-health-in-toronto-and-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15927","title":{"rendered":"Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.socscimed.2011.07.030\" target=\"_blank\">Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/02779536\" target=\"_blank\">Social Science &amp; Medicine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/02779536\/73\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 73, Issue 8<\/a>, October 2011<br \/>\npages 1152\u20131162<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.socscimed.2011.07.030\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.socscimed.2011.07.030<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soci.ubc.ca\/index.php?id=11216\" target=\"_blank\">Gerry Veenstra<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using original telephone survey data collected from adult residents of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a> (<em>n<\/em>=685) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vancouver\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver<\/a> (<em>n<\/em>=814) in 2009, I investigate associations between mental and physical health and variously conceived racial identities. An \u2018expressed racial identity\u2019 is a self-identification with a racial grouping that a person will readily express to others when asked to fit into official racial classifications presented by Census forms, survey researchers, insurance forms, and the like. Distinguishing between Asian, Black, South Asian, and White expressed racial identities, I find that survey respondents expressing Black identity are the most likely to report high blood pressure or hypertension, a risk that is slightly attenuated by socioeconomic status, and that respondents expressing Asian identity are the most likely to report poorer self-rated mental health and self-rated overall health, risks that are not explained by socioeconomic status. I also find that darker-skinned Black respondents are more likely than lighter-skinned Black respondents to report poor health outcomes, indicating that colourism, processes of discrimination which privilege lighter-skinned people of colour over their darker-skinned counterparts, exists and has implications for well-being in Canada as it does in the United States. Finally, \u2018reflected racial identity\u2019 refers to the racial identity that a person believes that others tend to perceive him or her to be. I find that expressed and reflected racial identities differ from one another for large proportions of self-expressed Black and South Asian respondents and relatively few self-expressed White and Asian respondents. <strong>I also find that mismatched racial identities correspond with relatively high risks of various poor health outcomes, especially for respondents who consider themselves White but believe that others tend to think they are something else.<\/strong> I conclude by presenting a framework for conceptualizing multifaceted suites of racial identities and relating their various components and inconsistencies between them to health outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver Social Science &amp; Medicine Volume 73, Issue 8, October 2011 pages 1152\u20131162 DOI: 10.1016\/j.socscimed.2011.07.030 Gerry Veenstra, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Using original telephone survey data collected from adult residents of Toronto (n=685) and Vancouver (n=814) in 2009, I investigate associations between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,2039,125,8,394],"tags":[7382,3743,2372,6790],"class_list":["post-15927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-health-medicine","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-gerry-veenstra","tag-social-science-medicine","tag-toronto","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15927","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=15927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43467,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15927\/revisions\/43467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}