{"id":2486,"date":"2009-10-26T00:09:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T00:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:51:16","slug":"racial-boundary-formation-at-the-dawn-of-jim-crow-the-determinants-and-effects-of-blackmulatto-occupational-differences-in-the-united-states-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black\/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.washington.edu\/spotlight\/archive_detail.asp?ID=430\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black\/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Department Colloquium Series<br \/>\nUniversity of Washington, Department of Sociology<br \/>\nSavery Hall<br \/>\n2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uoregon.edu\/faculty\/gullickson.php\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Gullickson<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor<br \/>\n<em>University of Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses on contemporary issues and dynamics, often overlooking a larger historical literature. This paper provides a historical perspective on these issues by exploiting regional variation in the United States in the degree of occupational differentiation between blacks and mulattoes in the 1880 Census, during a transitionary period from slavery to freedom. <strong>The analysis reveals that the role of the mixed-race category as either a \u201cbuffer class\u201d or a status threat depended upon the class composition of the white population.<\/strong> Black\/mulatto occupational differentiation was greatest in areas where whites had a high level of occupational prestige and thus little to fear from an elevated mulatto group. Furthermore, the effect of black\/mulatto occupational differentiation on lynching varied by the occupational status of whites. In areas where whites were of relatively low status, black\/mulatto differentiation increased the risk of lynching, while in areas where whites were of relatively high status, black\/mulatto differentiation decreased the risk of lynching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black\/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,14647,459,13,8,14,394,20],"tags":[746,747,745],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-economics","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aaron-gullickson","tag-jim-crow","tag-university-of-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}