{"id":59071,"date":"2019-10-19T03:08:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T03:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59071"},"modified":"2019-10-19T03:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T03:08:42","slug":"context-dependence-of-race-self-classification-results-from-a-highly-mixed-and-unequal-middle-income-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59071","title":{"rendered":"Context-dependence of race self-classification: Results from a highly mixed and unequal middle-income country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Context-dependence of race self-classification: Results from a highly mixed and unequal middle-income country<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

PLOS ONE<\/a>
\n2019-05-16
\nDOI: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0216653<\/a><\/p>\n

D\u00f3ra Chor<\/strong><\/a>
\nDepartment of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods
\nNational School of Public Health
\nOswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexandre Pereira<\/strong>
\nLaboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor)
\nUniversity of S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Paulo, SP, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Antonio G. Pacheco<\/strong>
\nScientific Computing Program
\nOswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Ricardo V. Santos<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods
\nNational School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil<\/em>
\nDepartment of Anthropology, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Maria J. M. Fonseca<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods
\nNational School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Maria I. Schmidt<\/strong>
\nPostgraduate Program in Epidemiology, School of Medicine
\nFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Bruce B. Duncan<\/strong>
\nPostgraduate Program in Epidemiology, School of Medicine
\nFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Sandhi M. Barreto<\/strong>, Faculty of Medicine & Clinical Hospital
\nFederal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Estela M. L. Aquino<\/strong>
\nInstitute of Collective Health
\nFederal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 G. Mill<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Physiological Sciences
\nFederal University of Espirito Santo, Vit\u00f3ria, ES Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Maria delCB Molina<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Physiological Science
\nFederal University of Espirito Santo, Vit\u00f3ria, ES Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Luana Giatti<\/strong>, Faculty of Medicine & Clinical Hospital
\nFederal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Maria daCC Almeida<\/strong>
\nGon\u00e7alo Muniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, BA Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Isabela Bensenor<\/strong>
\nCenter for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, University Hospital
\nUniversity of S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Paulo, SP Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Paulo A. Lotufo<\/strong>
\nCenter for Clinical and Epidemiological Research
\nUniversity Hospital, University of S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Paulo, SP Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Ethnic-racial classification criteria are widely recognized to vary according to historical, cultural and political contexts. In Brazil<\/a>, the strong influence of individual socio-economic factors on race\/colour self-classification is well known. With the expansion of genomic technologies, the use of genomic ancestry<\/a> has been suggested as a substitute for classification procedures such as self-declaring race, as if they represented the same concept. We investigated the association between genomic ancestry, the racial composition of census tracts and individual socioeconomic factors and self-declared race\/colour in a cohort of 15,105 Brazilians. Results show that the probability of self-declaring as black or brown increases according to the proportion of African ancestry and varies widely among cities. In Porto Alegre<\/a>, where most of the population is white, with every 10% increase in the proportion of African ancestry, the odds of self-declaring as black increased 14 times (95%CI<\/a> 6.08\u201332.81). In Salvador<\/a>, where most of the population is black or brown, that increase was of 3.98 times (95%CI 2.96\u20135.35). The racial composition of the area of residence was also associated with the probability of self-declaring as black or brown. Every 10% increase in the proportion of black and brown inhabitants in the residential census tract increased the odds of self-declaring as black by 1.33 times (95%CI 1.24\u20131.42). Ancestry alone does not explain self-declared race\/colour. An emphasis on multiple situational contexts (both individual and collective) provides a more comprehensive framework for the study of the predictors of self-declared race\/colour, a highly relevant construct in many different scenarios, such as public policy, sociology and medicine.<\/p>\n

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We investigated the association between genomic ancestry, the racial composition of census tracts and individual socioeconomic factors and self-declared race\/colour in a cohort of 15,105 Brazilians. Results show that the probability of self-declaring as black or brown increases according to the proportion of African ancestry and varies widely among cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,33,2039,8,26,394],"tags":[12311,30380,30383,30379,30385,30390,30386,30388,30389,30387,30382,30381,30391,11247,8487,30384],"class_list":["post-59071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-alexandre-pereira","tag-antonio-g-pacheco","tag-bruce-b-duncan","tag-dora-chor","tag-estela-m-l-aquino","tag-isabela-bensenor","tag-jose-g-mill","tag-luana-giatti","tag-maria-dacc-almeida","tag-maria-delcb-molina","tag-maria-i-schmidt","tag-maria-j-m-fonseca","tag-paulo-a-lotufo","tag-plos-one","tag-ricardo-v-santos","tag-sandhi-m-barreto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071","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=59071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59072,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071\/revisions\/59072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}