{"id":54964,"date":"2017-09-20T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54964"},"modified":"2017-09-20T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:33:27","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be-black-or-multiracial-or-white-cultural-variation-in-racial-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54964","title":{"rendered":"To Be or Not to Be (Black or Multiracial or White): Cultural Variation in Racial Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Be or Not to Be (Black or Multiracial or White): Cultural Variation in Racial Boundaries<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Social Psychological and Personality Science<\/a>
\nFirst Published 2017-08-28
\nDOI: 10.1177\/1948550617725149<\/a><\/p>\n

Jacqueline M. Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor, Social Psychology
\nUniversity of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n

Maria Clara P. de Paula Couto<\/strong>
\nAyrton Senna Institute, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Airi M. Sacco<\/strong><\/a>
\nDepartment of Psychology
\nFederal University of Pelotas, Pelatos, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Yarrow Dunham<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology
\nYale University<\/em><\/p>\n

Culture shapes the meaning of race and, consequently, who is placed into which racial categories. Three experiments conducted in the United States<\/a> and Brazil <\/a>illustrated the cultural nature of racial categorization. In Experiment 1, a target\u2019s racial ancestry influenced Americans\u2019 categorizations but had no impact on Brazilians\u2019 categorizations. Experiment 2 showed cultural differences in the reliance on two phenotypic cues to race; Brazilians\u2019 categorizations were more strongly determined by skin tone<\/a> than were Americans\u2019 categorizations, and Americans\u2019 categorizations were more strongly determined by other facial features compared to Brazilians’ categorizations. Experiment 3 demonstrated cultural differences in the motivated use of racial categories. When the racial hierarchy was threatened, only Americans more strictly enforced the Black\u2013White racial boundary. Cultural forces shape the conceptual, perceptual, and ideological construal of racial categories.<\/p>\n

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