{"id":5156,"date":"2010-02-10T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2010-02-10T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T02:36:30","slug":"racial-boundary-formation-at-the-dawn-of-jim-crow-the-determinants-and-effects-of-blackmulatto-occupational-differences-in-the-united-states-1880-working-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5156","title":{"rendered":"Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black\/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 (Working Paper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoregon.edu\/~aarong\/papers\/gullick_mulatto1880.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black\/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 (Working Paper)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>33 pages<br \/>\nUpdated 2008-07-03<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uoregon.edu\/faculty\/gullickson.php\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Gullickson<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses on contemporary issues and dynamics, often overlooking a larger historical literature.\u00a0 This article provides a historical perspective on these issues by exploiting regional variation in the United States in the degree of occupational differentiation between blacks and mulattoes in the 1880 Census, during a transitionary period from slavery to freedom.\u00a0 The analysis reveals that the role of the mixed-race category as either a \u201cbuffer class\u201d or a status threat depended upon the class composition of the white population.\u00a0 Black\/mulatto occupational differentiation was greatest in areas where whites had a high level of occupational prestige and thus little to fear from an elevated mulatto group. Furthermore, the effect of black\/mulatto occupational differentiation on lynching varied by the occupational status of whites. In areas where whites were of relatively low status, black\/mulatto differentiation increased the risk of lynching, while in areas where whites were of relatively high status, black\/mulatto differentiation decreased the risk of lynching.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoregon.edu\/~aarong\/papers\/gullick_mulatto1880.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black\/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 (Working Paper) 33 pages Updated 2008-07-03 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses on contemporary issues and dynamics, often overlooking a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,8,14,394,20],"tags":[746],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aaron-gullickson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","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=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}