{"id":8202,"date":"2010-08-09T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2014-11-10T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:38:10","slug":"institutions-inculcation-and-black-racial-identity-pigmentocracy-vs-the-rule-of-hypodescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8202","title":{"rendered":"Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/13504630802343390\" target=\"_blank\">Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t713445719\" target=\"_blank\">Social Identities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=g902375931\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Issue 5<\/a> (September 2008)<br \/>\npages 567-585<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/13504630802343390\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/13504630802343390<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:middletonrt@umsl.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Richard T. Middleton IV<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>University of Missouri, St. Louis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study individual inculcation in contexts where political institutions institutionalize either of two forms of racial social structures\u2014a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorism\" target=\"_blank\">pigmentocracy<\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a>), or the rule of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\">hypodescent<\/a> (the US South), and the effect such inculcation has on black racial identity. I sampled 101 respondents from the Dominican Republic and 102 from the state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a>, USA. Consistent with the basic assumptions of my hypotheses, respondents in the Dominican Republic study sites showed a weaker degree of identification with blackness vis\u2014vis something \u2018whiter\u2019. Nevertheless, respondents in the Dominican Republic sites demonstrated a stronger identification with blackness than what most conventional observers would have anticipated. Respondents in the Mississippi study sites showed a stronger sense of identification with blackness. Surprisingly, however, Mississippi respondents demonstrated a larger degree of neutrality than expected in their belief of being of a mixed racial heritage rather than just a black African heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a902346983~fulltext=713240930~frm=content\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent Social Identities Volume 14, Issue 5 (September 2008) pages 567-585 DOI: 10.1080\/13504630802343390 Richard T. Middleton IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,125,8,1459,394,20],"tags":[3468,159,2441,3469,1036],"class_list":["post-8202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-dominican-republic","tag-richard-middleton","tag-richard-t-middleton","tag-richard-t-middleton-iv","tag-social-identities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","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=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}