{"id":45947,"date":"2016-10-26T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45947"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:04:42","slug":"reevaluation-of-the-influence-of-appearance-and-reflected-appraisals-for-mixed-race-identity-the-role-of-consistent-inconsistent-racial-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45947","title":{"rendered":"Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/2332649216634740\" target=\"_blank\">Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sre.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sociology of Race and Ethnicity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sre.sagepub.com\/content\/2\/4.toc\" target=\"_blank\">October 2016, Volume 2, Number 4<\/a><br \/>\npages 569-583<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/2332649216634740\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/2332649216634740<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/~jsims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Patrice Sims<\/a><\/strong>, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin, River Falls<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Developed from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Looking_glass_self\" target=\"_blank\">Cooley\u2019s looking-glass self<\/a>, the theory of reflected appraisals is frequently used to explain how appearance influences the racial identity development of mixed-race people. However, postulating that racial identity develops via the internalization of the perception of what race one thinks others assume him or her to be rests on the assumption that others consistently perceive the individual in the same manner. Although true for many people, the appearance of mixed-race people is often ambiguous and changeable and is perceived differently depending on context, which results in mixed-race people\u2019s being ascribed to, and interacted with as if a member of, a variety of different races and ethnicities. This fact illuminates a gap in our knowledge of how appearance influences racial identity absent consistent perception by others. Drawing on 30 interviews with mixed-race adults from a variety of racial backgrounds in the United States and United Kingdom, the author examines not only the particular experiences with differential racial perception that mixed-race people have but also the mechanisms by which appearance influences identity when one experiences varying perceptions from others. This work ultimately extends the theory of reflected appraisals by advancing the idea that, under certain conditions, identity can form from experiences being consistently inconsistently perceived when that consistent inconsistency itself functions as a reflected appraisal of a particular identity.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/sre.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2016\/03\/07\/2332649216634740.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception Sociology of Race and Ethnicity October 2016, Volume 2, Number 4 pages 569-583 DOI: 10.1177\/2332649216634740 Jennifer Patrice Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls Developed from Cooley\u2019s looking-glass self, the theory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,10,20],"tags":[6521,19075],"class_list":["post-45947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-usa","tag-jennifer-patrice-sims","tag-sociology-of-race-and-ethnicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45947","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=45947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49616,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45947\/revisions\/49616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}