{"id":2458,"date":"2009-10-25T19:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2013-04-20T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T16:55:10","slug":"toward-a-sociology-of-racial-conceptualization-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/sof.0.0169\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sf.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Forces<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sf.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/87\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 87, Number 3<\/a>, 2009<br \/>\nPages: 1167-1192<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/sof.0.0169\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/sof.0.0169<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/annmorning\" target=\"_blank\">Ann J. Morning<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>New York Univeristy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in \u201cracial conceptualization\u201d \u2013 that is, notions of what race is, how races differ, and the origins of race. This article outlines key empirical, methodological and theoretical considerations for a research agenda on racial conceptualization. <strong>Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than 50 college students<\/strong>, I describe the variety of race concepts among respondents, illustrate the importance of using multiple measures of conceptualization, and demonstrate the malleability of conceptualization, linking it to demographic context and thereby raising the question of its future evolution in the changing United States of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>The color line, \u201cproblem of the twentieth century\u201d as Du Bois (1986[1903]) famously put it, has long been a prominent concern of American sociologists (Calhoun 2007). \u00a0The ways in which they have engaged the topic of race, however, reflect the preoccupations of their times. Early work on \u201crace relations\u201d (Park 1949) gave way to theories of \u201cracism\u201d in the civil-rights era, drawing new attention to institutional structures of racial oppression (Winant 2000). Large-scale surveys began to track attitudes \u2013 toward groups and policies \u2013 that might pose obstacles to achieving racial equality (Schuman, Steeh, Bobo and Krysan 1997). And in the wake of diversifying immigration inflows and rising intermarriage rates, scholars have revisited longstanding assumptions about racial identity and classification, <strong>launching new research on the categorization of mixed-race people and immigrant groups (Lee and Bean 2004). <\/strong>\u00a0By the end of the 20th century, American sociology had acquired a significant body of knowledge on race relations, attitudes, stratification and classification&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.fas.nyu.edu\/docs\/IO\/1043\/Racial_Conceptualization.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Social Forces Volume 87, Number 3, 2009 Pages: 1167-1192 DOI: 10.1353\/sof.0.0169 Ann J. Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York Univeristy Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in \u201cracial conceptualization\u201d \u2013 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394],"tags":[740,562,429],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-ann-j-morning","tag-ann-morning","tag-social-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}