{"title":"Some Reflections on the Promise and Limits of ‘Getting King right’ in the Age of Polarization","authors":"Jared Loggins","doi":"10.1177/23326492241232334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241232334","url":null,"abstract":"The following is a reflection on the limits and possibilities of Hajar Yazdiha’s empirical approach to adjudicating misreadings of Dr. King’s ideas.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricio Solís, Braulio Güémez, Raymundo M. Campos‐Vazquez
{"title":"Skin Tone and Inequality of Socioeconomic Outcomes in Mexico: A Comparative Analysis Using Optical Colorimeters and Color Palettes","authors":"Patricio Solís, Braulio Güémez, Raymundo M. Campos‐Vazquez","doi":"10.1177/23326492231217232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231217232","url":null,"abstract":"We study the association between skin tone and socioeconomic outcomes in Mexico. Previous studies have relied on subjective measures of skin tone, but these may suffer from measurement error and bias from “money lightening” effects, and they do not include other physical attributes, which could lead to overestimation. We use a new data source in Mexico specifically designed to address these challenges, including an objective measurement of skin tone based on optical colorimeters. We find that the estimates of the association between skin tone and socioeconomic outcomes are consistent across data collection techniques (interviewer-rated, self-rated, machine-rated) and surveys. Around half of the association is explained by differences in socioeconomic background, a finding that emphasizes the importance of considering both historically accumulated disadvantages and current mechanisms of generating inequality. We also find that phenotypical characteristics other than skin tone (eye and hair color) are significant predictors of socioeconomic outcomes. These findings suggest that more than a strict pigmentocracy, where light skin is the only element or the definitive one, ethnoracial stratification in Mexico may be better characterized in a broader sense: as one where people with a set of racialized physical features linked to European origins have greater accumulated privilege and social advantages than those with features linked to Indigenous or Black ancestry.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139140015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black, No Question Mark: Black Student Organizations, (Multi)Racial Awakenings, and Reflective Resistance in Multiracial Families","authors":"Angelica C. Loblack","doi":"10.1177/23326492231218228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231218228","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing visibility of multiracial college students has catalyzed debate about the need for organizations to better address the racialized experiences of these students. These debates are fueled by scholarship highlighting multiracial students’ feelings of exclusion and alienation from race-oriented student organizations. Yet, much of this research is predicated on the aggregated experiences of all multiracial students with minimal, or no specific attention to those who both have Black ancestry and indicate involvement in Black student organizations (BSOs). To fill this gap, I draw on interviews with 21 Black multiracial college students involved in BSOs to examine how they interpret the impacts of their involvement. In doing so, I elucidate how BSOs operate as critical activation sites for (multi)racial awakenings, through which students develop deeper understandings of and attachments to Blackness as well as demonstrate strengthened commitments to antiracism. I then introduce reflective resistance to account for the ways that these (multi)racial awakenings informed shifts in students’ navigation of intrafamilial relationships, leading many to adopt strategies meant to dismantle, confront, and even resist the racist logics perpetuated by loved ones. Black multiracial students’ engagement in reflective resistance illustrates how BSO involvement not only impacts understandings of race and racism but also provides the tools necessary to critically reflect and resist anti-Blackness in students’ social, political, and intimate lives.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139137182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times","authors":"Dominik Drabent","doi":"10.1177/23326492231222177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231222177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":" 115","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139139389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India","authors":"Jack Jin Gary Lee, Julián Gómez-Delgado","doi":"10.1177/23326492231217223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231217223","url":null,"abstract":"northwestern.edu Description: Why does modern life seem so inevitably corrupt? Through an analysis of the East India Company's tumultuous shift from a commercial trader to de-facto sovereign of much of contemporary South Asia, this talk suggests that the category of corruption was deeply intertwined with not only the practical problems of organizing imperial administration, but also modern social and moral imaginaries.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139010280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Changing Colonial Racial Hierarchies in International Development","authors":"Skye Niles, S. Roudbari, Santina L. Contreras","doi":"10.1177/23326492231214450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231214450","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines a shift in international development discourse away from more overtly colonial and abject depictions of people from the Global South toward foregrounding positive portrayals of people from the Global South who are self-reliant and empowered through entrepreneurship and market labor. Through interviews, observations, and content analysis of university-based development programs and development organizations, we examine the racial meaning and consequences of this shift. We argue that this discourse reformulates colonial racial hierarchies in development by suturing racial value to adherence to free market ideals, such as freedom and fulfillment through markets, while legitimizing these changes through affirmations of multiculturalism. This shift in development aligns with a broader context of neoliberal multiculturalism, which has reconfigured racial hierarchies based on adherence to multicultural global citizenship and free market principles. This research illustrates the changing intersections of race, colonialism, neoliberalism, and development and speaks to the importance of universities and development organizations in shaping racial meaning and inequalities in a global context.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138596168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery","authors":"Gladys Mitchell-Walthour","doi":"10.1177/23326492231214496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231214496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139209521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trading on Diverse Relationships: The Process of Racialized Social Commodification in Multiracial Congregations","authors":"O. Okuwobi, Christopher W. Munn, Korie L. Edwards","doi":"10.1177/23326492231213327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231213327","url":null,"abstract":"Diverse organizations focus on appearing progressive but, in practice, may reproduce internal and external racial inequalities. Previous research has focused on how organizations with superficial levels of diversity may be detrimental to racial equity; are organizations with deep and sustained, cross-racial relationships any better? Drawing on in-depth interviews, field notes, and surveys of 121 head clergy of multiracial churches, we examine the strategies of leaders of multiracial churches to raise funds for their organizations. Our systematic analysis reveals how these, mostly White, religious leaders act as brokers by leveraging embeddedness with congregants of color, social and cultural capital within institutions valuing diversity, and the racial status of their organizations to gain access to social and organizational benefits. We develop a theoretical concept called “racialized social commodification” (RSC) to explore how leaders convert the racial capital of people of color into social and economic resources in contexts of substantive diversity. Through RSC, even organizations boasting strong, cross-racial relationships continue to reproduce racial inequality by protecting power and resource hierarchies that benefit White Americans.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"106 1","pages":"16 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paying for the Prestige: Differences in College Investment between Asian American and White Families","authors":"K. Goyette, Yongai Jin, Yu Xie","doi":"10.1177/23326492231210927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231210927","url":null,"abstract":"Much research has focused on the relative success of Asian Americans in U.S. higher education, particularly their high rates of enrollment and graduation compared to White Americans. In this research, we investigate one factor that may influence these outcomes: whether Asian American families invest more financially in their children’s college education. Using data from the 2015–2016 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, we find that Asian American families contribute more not only absolutely but also proportionate to their incomes. This is not due to their greater financial resources but is related to Asian American students’ attendance at more selective institutions. Asian American families may adopt college investment strategies that place more value on selective institutions, perhaps because of perceived intrinsic value, high esteem in their social networks, limited information about other institutions, and/or because they anticipate that such experiences more easily translate into desired occupations.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"47 14 1","pages":"71 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139241964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro: A Book History","authors":"P. L. Sinitiere","doi":"10.1177/23326492231214175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231214175","url":null,"abstract":"The Philadelphia Negro pioneered the field of urban sociology. As a result, scholars often highlight its academic interventions that over a century after its publication remain germane to the study of cities and multiethnic populations in urban settings. While emphasis on the text’s scholarly originality and contemporary analytic relevancy is central to demonstrate its importance, consideration of The Philadelphia Negro’s book history provides an equally compelling account of its enduring significance. Book history addresses the creation of a book as a physical publication. Book history also considers the authorial choices behind infrastructural, textual adornments such as appendixes or maps. In addition, book history deals with subjects like cover art and how publishers and authors often cocreate the external visual presentation of a book’s interior contents. In this brief book history, I explore an editorial history of critical scholarly editions of The Philadelphia Negro, an analysis occasioned by a recent 2023 University of Pennsylvania Press updated edition of the text that features sociologist Elijah Anderson’s revised editorial introduction, first published in 1996. In other words, I historicize critical scholarly editions of The Philadelphia Negro to trace the book’s reception and meaning over time. I also examine selected textual and infrastructural features of each critical edition, most especially the book covers. Historical analysis of sociological writing summons historians (like me) to perform cross-disciplinary intellectual labor while it also invites sociologists to consider historical context more expansively in their assessment of sociological texts.","PeriodicalId":46879,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"14 ","pages":"159 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139241312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}