{"id":33579,"date":"2013-09-13T02:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33579"},"modified":"2013-09-13T02:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T02:26:23","slug":"genetic-bio-ancestry-and-social-construction-of-racial-classification-in-social-surveys-in-the-contemporary-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33579","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13524-013-0242-0\" target=\"_blank\">Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/13524\" target=\"_blank\">Demography<\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 2013<br \/>\n32 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13524-013-0242-0\" target=\"_blank\">10.1007\/s13524-013-0242-0-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.unc.edu\/people\/faculty\/guang-guo\" target=\"_blank\">Guang Guo<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yilan Fu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hedwig Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tianji Cai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathleen Mullan Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yi Li<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Self-reported race is generally considered the basis for racial classification in social surveys, including the U.S. census. Drawing on recent advances in human molecular genetics and social science perspectives of socially constructed race, our study takes into account both genetic bio-ancestry and social context in understanding racial classification. This article accomplishes two objectives. First, our research establishes geographic genetic bio-ancestry as a component of racial classification. Second, <strong>it shows how social forces trump biology in racial classification and\/or how social context interacts with bio-ancestry in shaping racial classification.<\/strong> The findings were replicated in two racially and ethnically diverse data sets: the College Roommate Study (<em>N<\/em> = 2,065) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Longitudinal_Study_of_Adolescent_Health\" target=\"_blank\">National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health<\/a> (<em>N<\/em> = 2,281).<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/pay+per+view?SGWID=0-1740713-3131-0-0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States Demography September 2013 32 pages DOI: 10.1007\/s13524-013-0242-0-0 Guang Guo, Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu Hedwig Lee Tianji Cai Kathleen Mullan Harris Yi Li Self-reported race is generally considered the basis for racial classification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,20],"tags":[3010,15725,3012,15726,15727,3011],"class_list":["post-33579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-guang-guo","tag-hedwig-lee","tag-kathleen-mullan-harris","tag-tianji-cai","tag-yi-li","tag-yilan-fu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33579","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=33579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}