{"id":30592,"date":"2013-04-23T00:24:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30592"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:54:44","slug":"race-and-ethnicity-are-neither-scientifically-reliable-nor-valid-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30592","title":{"rendered":"Race and ethnicity are neither scientifically reliable nor valid categories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Race and ethnicity are neither scientifically reliable nor valid categories, and assignments to racial or ethnic categories are often based on observer biases, changing situational identities, and historical-political vagaries (Lee 1993; Kaplan and Bennett 2003; Williams 2007). In real life, people do not have only one fixed racial or ethnic identity which remains the same over time and space and that can be accurately measured. A further complication inherent in categorization is that people embrace biracial, multiracial, and multi-ethnic identities, <strong>which makes the categories even more difficult to sustain, compare, and enumerate.<\/strong> Current racial and ethnic categories for federal data collection are not sensitive to the complex intra-group heterogeneity that exists in the nation (Kaplan and Bennett 2003; Office of Management and Budget 1997).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alison Stratton, Ava Nepaul, and Margaret Hynes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30577\" target=\"_blank\">Issue Brief \u2013 Race and Ethnicity Matters: Concepts and Challenges of Racial and Ethnic Classifications in Public Health<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Connecticut Health Disparities Project<\/em>, (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Department of Public Health, Fall 2007). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/dph\/lib\/dph\/hisr\/pdf\/race_and_ethnicity_matters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/dph\/lib\/dph\/hisr\/pdf\/race_and_ethnicity_matters.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race and ethnicity are neither scientifically reliable nor valid categories, and assignments to racial or ethnic categories are often based on observer biases, changing situational identities, and historical-political vagaries (Lee 1993; Kaplan and Bennett 2003; Williams 2007). In real life, people do not have only one fixed racial or ethnic identity which remains the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14497,14498,14496,14499,14495],"class_list":["post-30592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-alison-stratton","tag-ava-nepaul","tag-connecticut-department-of-public-health","tag-margaret-hynes","tag-the-connecticut-health-disparities-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592","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=30592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47737,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592\/revisions\/47737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}