{"id":16483,"date":"2011-09-25T00:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16483"},"modified":"2015-05-11T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:11:09","slug":"colourism-and-african-american-wealth-evidence-from-the-nineteenth-century-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16483","title":{"rendered":"Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00148-006-0111-x\" target=\"_blank\">Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/0933-1433\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Population Economics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/0933-1433\/20\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 20, Number 3<\/a> (July 2007)<br \/>\npages 599-620<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00148-006-0111-x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1007\/s00148-006-0111-x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/people.clemson.edu\/~bodnhrn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Bodenhorn<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.lafayette.edu\/ruebeckc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher S. Ruebeck<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate into significant differences in outcomes. Data on more than 15,000 households interviewed during the 1860 US federal census exhibit sharp differences in wealth holdings between white, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>, and black households in the urban <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">South<\/a>. We document these differences, investigate relationships between wealth and recorded household characteristics, and decompose the wealth gaps to examine the returns to racial characteristics. The analysis reveals a distinct racial hierarchy. Black wealth was only 20% of white wealth, but mulattoes held nearly 50% of whites\u2019 wealth. This advantage is consistent with colourism, the favouritism shown to those of lighter complexion.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/dspace.lafayette.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/10385\/666\/Ruebeck-JournalofPopulationEconomics-vol20-no3-2007.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South Journal of Population Economics Volume 20, Number 3 (July 2007) pages 599-620 DOI: 10.1007\/s00148-006-0111-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14647,459,8,20],"tags":[7628,265,749,267,7629],"class_list":["post-16483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-economics","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-christopher-ruebeck","tag-christopher-s-ruebeck","tag-howard-bodenhorn","tag-howard-n-bodenhorn","tag-journal-of-population-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483","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=16483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}