{"id":7162,"date":"2010-05-15T02:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2015-10-11T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T20:47:00","slug":"beyond-the-looking-glass-exploring-variation-between-racial-self-identification-and-interviewer-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7162","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/paa2010.princeton.edu\/download.aspx?submissionId=100130\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Population Association of America<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/paa2010.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Annual Meeting Program<\/a><br \/>\n2010-04-17<br \/>\n10 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.stanford.edu\/people\/aliya-saperstein\" target=\"_blank\">Aliya Saperstein<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5545\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Penner<\/a><\/strong>, Associate\u00a0Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recent research has demonstrated the existence of fluidity in both racial self-identification and interviewer classification. Racial self-identification has been shown to vary for the same individuals across contexts (Harris and Sim 2002), over time (Doyle and Kao 2007; Hitlin et al. 2006) and depending on their social position (Penner and Saperstein 2008). Similarly, interviewer classifications of the same individuals have been shown to vary over time (Brown et al. 2007), as well as change in response to biographical events such as incarceration, unemployment and experiencing a spell of poverty (Penner and Saperstein 2008). However, the specific pattern of variation between racial self-identification and interviewer classification\u2014i.e., how they might influence each other over time\u2014has yet to be empirically explored.<\/p>\n<p>The prevailing assumption in the literature on racial identity is that people calibrate or edit their self-identification based on how they are perceived by others (e.g., Nagel 1994). We propose to test this hypothesis directly by examining what happens when there is discordance between an individual\u2019s perceived and self-identified race, using data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Longitudinal_Study_of_Adolescent_to_Adult_Health\">National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health<\/a>. This is a crucial, and up to now missing, piece of the puzzle of whether and how different measures of race relate to one another. Additional analyses will also provide insight into how differences in life chances, such as educational attainment and contact with the criminal justice system, affect how respondents racially identify, are perceived by others and how both change over time.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/paa2010.princeton.edu\/download.aspx?submissionId=100130\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 10 pages Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate\u00a0Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Recent research has demonstrated the existence of fluidity in both racial self-identification and interviewer classification. 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