{"id":59329,"date":"2019-12-12T16:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59329"},"modified":"2019-12-12T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:13:42","slug":"doing-hair-doing-race-the-influence-of-hairstyle-on-racial-perception-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59329","title":{"rendered":"Doing hair, doing race: the influence of hairstyle on racial perception across the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2019.1700296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Doing hair, doing race: the influence of hairstyle on racial perception across the US<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2019-12-11<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2019.1700296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/01419870.2019.1700296<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uah.edu\/ahs\/departments\/sociology\/faculty-staff\/jennifer-sims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jennifer Patrice Sims<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Alabama, Huntsville<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whitneylpirtle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Whitney Laster Pirtle<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Merced<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iris-johnson-arnold-0043983b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Iris Johnson-Arnold<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Speech Pathology and Audiology<br \/>\n<em>Tennessee State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2019.1700296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/na101\/home\/literatum\/publisher\/tandf\/journals\/covergifs\/rers20\/0\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"Publication Cover\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hair is an easily changeable \u201cracial marker\u201d feature. Although growing interdisciplinary research suggests that hairstyle influences how one is racially perceived, extant methodological practices in racial perception research reduce external validity. This study introduces new experimental and analytical procedures to test the effect of hairstyle on racial perception across racial contexts. Over 1,000 participants from primarily white, black and multiracial test sites racially categorized a diverse group of women from matched pairs of pictures in which the women have different hairstyles. Results from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linear_regression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multilevel regression<\/a> show that altering hairstyle significantly alters how participants perceive mixed-race women, Latinas, most black and some white women and that this varies by racial context with perceptions of race being less swayed by hairstyle in the multiracial context. Our research thus demonstrates that doing hair is a context-dependent part of \u201cdoing race\u201d that has theoretical, methodological, and legal implications.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01419870.2019.1700296?journalCode=rers20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study introduces new experimental and analytical procedures to test the effect of hairstyle on racial perception across racial contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20,25],"tags":[30570,461,30572,28099,30573,6522,6521,6523,30571,30568,30569,24723],"class_list":["post-59329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-doing-race","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-experiments","tag-hair","tag-iris-johnson-arnold","tag-jennifer-p-sims","tag-jennifer-patrice-sims","tag-jennifer-sims","tag-physical-appearance","tag-racial-perception","tag-racialization","tag-whitney-laster-pirtle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59329","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=59329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59331,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59329\/revisions\/59331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}