{"id":45935,"date":"2016-03-08T02:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45935"},"modified":"2016-03-08T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:34:25","slug":"shades-of-race-how-phenotype-and-observer-characteristics-shape-racial-classification-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45935","title":{"rendered":"Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002764215613395\" target=\"_blank\">Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abs.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Behavioral Scientist<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abs.sagepub.com\/content\/60\/4.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 60, Number 4<\/a> (April 2016)<br \/>\npages 420-441<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002764215613395\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0002764215613395<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/princeton.academia.edu\/DeniaGarcia\" target=\"_blank\">Denia Garcia<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~mabascal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Abascal<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond the dimensions of self- or other-classification. Current understandings of the relationship between phenotypic traits, like skin color, and racial classification are incomplete. Scholars agree that perceptions of phenotypic traits shape how people classify others; it remains to be seen, however, whether racial classification in turn shapes people\u2019s perceptions of phenotypic traits. The present study is based on an original survey experiment that tests whether assessments of others\u2019 skin color are affected by a subtle racial cue, a name. Results indicate that skin color ratings are affected by the presence of a racially distinctive name: A significant share of people will rate the same face darker when that face is assigned a distinctively Hispanic name as opposed to a non-Hispanic name. In addition, ratings of male faces are more sensitive to racially distinctive names. The findings bear important lessons for our understanding of the social construction of race and its role in producing inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/abs.sagepub.com\/content\/60\/4\/420.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 420-441 DOI: 10.1177\/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[8585,19455,21790,23156],"class_list":["post-45935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-american-behavioral-scientist","tag-denia-garcia","tag-maria-abascal","tag-maria-c-abascal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45935","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=45935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45941,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45935\/revisions\/45941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}