{"id":23359,"date":"2012-05-25T23:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23359"},"modified":"2016-07-10T23:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T23:11:20","slug":"beyond-fixed-or-fluid-degrees-of-fluidity-in-racial-identification-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23359","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/perla.princeton.edu\/beyond-fixed-or-fluid-degrees-of-fluidity-in-racial-identification-in-latin-america\/\">Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perla.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America<\/a><br \/>\nPrinceton University<br \/>\n2012-05-23<br \/>\n60 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/sociology\/faculty\/telles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward E. Telles<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Princeton University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiannapaschel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tianna S. Paschel<\/a><\/strong>, Post Doctoral Fellow (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science as of July 2012)<br \/>\nDepartment of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Com\u00adpar\u00ada\u00adtive research on race and eth\u00adnic\u00adity has often turned to Latin Amer\u00adica where racial iden\u00adtity is seen as fluid. Using nation\u00adally rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive data from the 2010 America\u2019s Barom\u00ade\u00adter, we exam\u00adined the extent to which skin color, nation, class and region shape who iden\u00adti\u00adfies as black or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulato<\/a> in Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Colom\u00adbia and the Domini\u00adcan Repub\u00adlic. While racial cat\u00ade\u00adgories over\u00adlap sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcantly, skin color largely deter\u00admines both black and mulatto self-identification in all five coun\u00adtries although its effect varies con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably. We dis\u00adcov\u00adered dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive pat\u00adterns in racial flu\u00adid\u00adity, in how color shapes racial clas\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion, in the fre\u00adquency of black and mixed-race cat\u00ade\u00adgories, and in the influ\u00adence of sta\u00adtus and region on racial clas\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion. We sug\u00adgest that these pat\u00adterns are related to nation\u00adal\u00adist nar\u00adra\u00adtives, state poli\u00adcies and black move\u00adment orga\u00adniz\u00ading. These find\u00adings chal\u00adlenge widely held assump\u00adtions about race rela\u00adtions in Latin Amer\u00adica, sug\u00adgest\u00ading rather that unique national his\u00adto\u00adries have given way to dif\u00adfer\u00adent sys\u00adtems of race clas\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion in each coun\u00adtry. We advance the con\u00adcept of racial schemas and vis\u00adcos\u00adity to bet\u00adter under\u00adstand these differences.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/perla.princeton.edu\/files\/2012\/05\/BeyondFixedorFluid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America Princeton University 2012-05-23 60 pages Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Tianna S. Paschel, Post Doctoral Fellow (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science as of July 2012) Department of Political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,33,14,394],"tags":[10882,8950,10883,701,1893,10289,10885,10884,10881,10880],"class_list":["post-23359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-papers","category-socialscience","tag-colombia","tag-costa-rica","tag-dominican-republic","tag-edward-e-telles","tag-edward-telles","tag-panama","tag-perla","tag-the-project-on-ethnicity-and-race-in-latin-america","tag-tianna-paschel","tag-tianna-s-paschel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359","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=23359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48191,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23359\/revisions\/48191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}