{"id":37898,"date":"2014-10-23T18:41:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37898"},"modified":"2014-10-23T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:41:46","slug":"skin-tone-biracial-stratification-and-tri-racial-stratification-among-sperm-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37898","title":{"rendered":"Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2012.696666\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/37\/3\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 37,\u00a0 Issue 3, 2014<\/a>\u00a0(Special Issue: Race, Migration and Identity: Shifting Boundaries in the USA)<br \/>\npages 517-536<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2012.696666\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2012.696666<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.niu.edu\/sociology\/faculty\/staffdirectory\/walther.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carol S. Walther<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Northern Illinois University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conception through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_insemination\" target=\"_blank\">donor insemination<\/a> is an attractive option for many couples and single women in the USA, being a relatively simple and inexpensive way of having a baby by a biological birth. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sperm_bank\" target=\"_blank\">Sperm banks<\/a> provide online catalogues in which sperm donors can be selected according to their physical and social characteristics. One sperm bank&#8217;s catalogue was analysed based on the pregnancy of selected donors. Three hypotheses were tested related to colourism, biracial stratification and tri-racialism. Specifically, the selection of donors did not reflect: (1) any general preference for a lighter skin tone; (2) a black\u2013white polarity; or (3) any trend towards tri-racialism. Donors who could be identified as Jewish or Muslim were more likely to be selected. Donors whose major was law were less likely to be selected.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2012.696666\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37,\u00a0 Issue 3, 2014\u00a0(Special Issue: Race, Migration and Identity: Shifting Boundaries in the USA) pages 517-536 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2012.696666 Carol S. Walther, Assistant Professor of Sociology Northern Illinois University Conception through donor insemination is an attractive option for many couples and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,820,394,20],"tags":[18242,18243,461],"class_list":["post-37898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-carol-s-walther","tag-carol-walther","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37898","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=37898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}