{"id":47628,"date":"2016-06-13T23:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T23:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47628"},"modified":"2016-06-13T23:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T23:48:40","slug":"essential-measures-ancestry-race-and-social-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47628","title":{"rendered":"Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002764215613398\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/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\">April 2016, Volume 60, Number 4<\/a><br \/>\npages 498-518<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002764215613398\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0002764215613398<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uoregon.edu\/profile\/aarong\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Aaron Gullickson<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person\u2019s essentialized identity that answer the question of \u201cwho is what?\u201d Despite this loose but well-understood connection between the two concepts and the availability of ancestry data on the U.S. census, researchers have rarely used the two sources of data in combination. In this article, drawing on theories of boundary formation, I compare these two forms of identification to explore the salience and social closure of racial boundaries. Specifically, I analyze race-reporting inconsistency and predict college completion at multiple levels of racial ancestry aggregation using Census data. The results suggest that, while much of the variation in these measures corresponds to popular \u201cbig race\u201d conceptions of difference, considerable variation remains among individual ancestries.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/abs.sagepub.com\/content\/60\/4\/498.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference American Behavioral Scientist April 2016, Volume 60, Number 4 pages 498-518 DOI: 10.1177\/0002764215613398 Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person\u2019s essentialized identity that answer the question 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":[12,2895,33,8,394,20],"tags":[746,8585],"class_list":["post-47628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aaron-gullickson","tag-american-behavioral-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47628","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=47628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47629,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47628\/revisions\/47629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}