C Matthew Snipp
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Matthew Snipp |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Snipp |
| SIGNATURE | SNIPP C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 382 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
A new look at mixed-heritage people in the United States
The American Opportunity Study: A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Outcomes, Evaluating Policy, and Advancing Basic Science
The American Opportunity Study is an ongoing initiative to build the country's capacity to access and analyze linked administrative data. It is best viewed as a population-level scaffolding on which other administrative data can then be hung. This scaffolding, if used as a stand-alone resource, will allow for long-run analyses of fundamental population and labor market processes. If combined with data from other sources, it will allow for long-ru…
Measuring Hispanic Origin: Reflections on Hispanic Race Reporting
There are more than 50 million Hispanics in the United States, composing 16 percent of the population. Hispanics are also one of the fastest-growing race and ethnic groups. The American public often views and treats Hispanics as a racial group; yet 47 years after a Hispanic origin measure was added to the 1970 U.S. decennial census, and after numerous tests aimed at ameliorating racial measurement issues related to Hispanics, we continue to strug…
Changes in Racial and Gender Inequality since 1970
The decades following 1970 to the present were an important period because they marked an era in which measures such as Affirmative Action were introduced to improve opportunities for American minorities and women. Ironically, this also was a period when income inequality dramatically increased in the United States. We analyze Census data from 1970 to 2009 to assess whether inequality in the earnings received by women and minorities has changed i…
A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Social Mobility in the United States
The country's capacity to monitor trends in social mobility has languished since the last major survey on U.S. social mobility was fielded in 1973. It is accordingly difficult to evaluate recent concerns that social mobility may be declining or to develop mobility policy that is adequately informed by evidence. This article presents a new initiative, dubbed the American Opportunity Study (AOS), that would allow the country to monitor social mobil…
Utopian visions of racial admixture
Keywords: multiracialcensusabolitionistsracial classification Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. Matthew SnippC. MATTHEW SNIPP is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University
Cancer Screening and Risk Factor Rates Among American Indians
Objectives. We examined cancer screening and risk factor patterns in California using 4 different statistical tabulations of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations. Methods. We used the 2001 California Health Interview Survey to compare cancer screening and risk factor data across 4 different tabulation approaches. We calculated weighted prevalence estimates by gender and race/ethnicity for cancer screening and risk factors, sociode…
Assimilation in American Society: Occupational Achievement and Earnings for Ethnic Minorities in the United States, 1970 to 1990
Racial Measurement in the American Census: Past Practices and Implications for the Future
In 1977, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established an official classification standard for the measurement of race in the American population. In so doing, the OMB authorities created what amounted to a racial cosmology that spread throughout American society, affecting public perceptions about the racial hierarchy of American society. In 1997, the OMB issued a revised version of this classification in which small changes may …
American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century. By Nancy Shoemaker. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xiv, 156 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-1919-X.) Get access C. Matthew Snipp C. Matthew Snipp Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 743–744, https://doi.org/10…
Changes in racial identification and the educational attainment of American Indians, 1970–1990
We use data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 census public-use files to assess the impact of newly identified Indians on the educational attainment of American Indians who were at least 25 years old in 1970. We test the hypotheses that this impact was limited to metropolitan areas and to states with small Indian populations. We find that educational attainment for American Indians rose sharply between 1970 and 1990 and that changes in racial identif…
The size and distribution of the American Indian population: Fertility, mortality, migration, and residence
Some observations about racial boundaries and the experiences of American Indians
The number of inter-racial marriages has increased sharply in the last two decades. There are a number of factors that might account for this development - for example, immigration, changing norms, and marriage market composition - but one indisputable outcome has been a rise in the number of persons with multiracial backgrounds. This article argues that multiracial persons have a number of options about how they might identify their ancestry, an…
Understanding Race and Ethnicity in Rural America1
Rural sociologists have an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the race and ethnic relations literature by focusing on the unique social position of minority communities in rural areas. Reservations, colonias, and rural African-Americans in the South are located in close proximity to the historic institutions established for their exploitation and oppression-slavery, for example. As such, these communities represent a legacy from wh…
Property Rights and Indian Economies
Disease and Demography in the Americas
Journal Article Disease and Demography in the Americas Get access Disease and Demography in the Americas. Edited by Verano John W. Ubelaker Douglas H.. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. x + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliographies, index. $62.00.) C. Matthew Snipp C. Matthew Snipp University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Vo…
Ethnic reorganization: American Indian social, economic, political, and cultural strategies for survival
In this article, we argue that there is an important, but as yet unidentified, process involved in the maintenance and reconstruction of ethnic identity. We call this process 'ethnic reorganization'. We argue that this process is useful for understanding the ethnic survival of indigenous peoples in colonized societies, as well as for illuminating the processes of ethnic renascence among both indigenous and immigrant groups. We find it especially …
The Cherokees: A Population History: Indians of the Southeast
Sociology
Indian Country, L. A: Maintaining Ethnic Community in Complex Society. Joan Weibel-Orlando
American Indians: The First of This Land
Sociological Perspectives on American Indians
The sociology of American Indians incorporates perspectives from across the social sciences. Recently, sociologists have taken a greater interest in American Indians, perhaps because American Indians have become increasingly visible in the diverse ethnic mosaic of American society. This review focuses on the position of American Indians in the US socioeconomic hierarchy: their numbers, where they live, and their social and economic well-being. Th…
The Cherokees: A Population History
Journal Article The Cherokees: A Population History. By Russell Thornton with C. Matthew Snipp and Nancy Breen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. xvi + 237 pp. $35.00.) Get access David Henige David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1045–1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078821 Published: 01…
A Research Note: American Indian Fertility Patterns: 1910 and 1940 to 1980
SINCE THOMAS MALTHUS (1914 [1798]), the historical fertility patterns of North American Indian populations have been a concern of historians, anthropologists, and other scholars (see Krzywicki, 1934; Aberle, Watkins and Pitney, 1940; Cook, 1976; Grinde, 1984; and Shoemaker, 1988). More recent fertility patterns, particularly those during the twentieth century, have come under scrutiny by anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and others (se…
American Indians: The First of This Land
Racial Measurement in the American Census: Past Practices and Implications for the Future
In 1977, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established an official classification standard for the measurement of race in the American population. In so doing, the OMB authorities created what amounted to a racial cosmology that spread throughout American society, affecting public perceptions about the racial hierarchy of American society. In 1997, the OMB issued a revised version of this classification in which small changes may …
Sociological Perspectives on American Indians
The sociology of American Indians incorporates perspectives from across the social sciences. Recently, sociologists have taken a greater interest in American Indians, perhaps because American Indians have become increasingly visible in the diverse ethnic mosaic of American society. This review focuses on the position of American Indians in the US socioeconomic hierarchy: their numbers, where they live, and their social and economic well-being. Th…
Understanding Race and Ethnicity in Rural America1
Rural sociologists have an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the race and ethnic relations literature by focusing on the unique social position of minority communities in rural areas. Reservations, colonias, and rural African-Americans in the South are located in close proximity to the historic institutions established for their exploitation and oppression-slavery, for example. As such, these communities represent a legacy from wh…
Some observations about racial boundaries and the experiences of American Indians
The number of inter-racial marriages has increased sharply in the last two decades. There are a number of factors that might account for this development - for example, immigration, changing norms, and marriage market composition - but one indisputable outcome has been a rise in the number of persons with multiracial backgrounds. This article argues that multiracial persons have a number of options about how they might identify their ancestry, an…
Changes in racial identification and the educational attainment of American Indians, 1970–1990
We use data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 census public-use files to assess the impact of newly identified Indians on the educational attainment of American Indians who were at least 25 years old in 1970. We test the hypotheses that this impact was limited to metropolitan areas and to states with small Indian populations. We find that educational attainment for American Indians rose sharply between 1970 and 1990 and that changes in racial identif…
Ethnic reorganization: American Indian social, economic, political, and cultural strategies for survival
In this article, we argue that there is an important, but as yet unidentified, process involved in the maintenance and reconstruction of ethnic identity. We call this process 'ethnic reorganization'. We argue that this process is useful for understanding the ethnic survival of indigenous peoples in colonized societies, as well as for illuminating the processes of ethnic renascence among both indigenous and immigrant groups. We find it especially …
Who are American Indians? Some observations about the perils and pitfalls of data for race and ethnicity
A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Social Mobility in the United States
The country's capacity to monitor trends in social mobility has languished since the last major survey on U.S. social mobility was fielded in 1973. It is accordingly difficult to evaluate recent concerns that social mobility may be declining or to develop mobility policy that is adequately informed by evidence. This article presents a new initiative, dubbed the American Opportunity Study (AOS), that would allow the country to monitor social mobil…
The Changing Political and Economic Status of the American Indians: From Captive Nations to Internal Colonies
Resource development on American Indian lands is bringing about a dramatic transformation of the political and economic status of American Indians. Recently, scholars observing this change have increasingly used underdevelopment theory to explain the nature of these changes. However, this discussion points out that as applied to American Indians, the perspective of underdevelopment theory is skewed in several important ways. Specifically, it fail…
Changes in Racial and Gender Inequality since 1970
The decades following 1970 to the present were an important period because they marked an era in which measures such as Affirmative Action were introduced to improve opportunities for American minorities and women. Ironically, this also was a period when income inequality dramatically increased in the United States. We analyze Census data from 1970 to 2009 to assess whether inequality in the earnings received by women and minorities has changed i…
A Research Note: American Indian Fertility Patterns: 1910 and 1940 to 1980
SINCE THOMAS MALTHUS (1914 [1798]), the historical fertility patterns of North American Indian populations have been a concern of historians, anthropologists, and other scholars (see Krzywicki, 1934; Aberle, Watkins and Pitney, 1940; Cook, 1976; Grinde, 1984; and Shoemaker, 1988). More recent fertility patterns, particularly those during the twentieth century, have come under scrutiny by anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and others (se…
Occupational Mobility and Social Class: Insights From Men's Career Mobility
This paper reviews several neo-Weberian ideas about social class for understanding patterns of men's career mobility. Special attention is devoted to the non-Marxist concepts of social class advocated by Giddens, Sorokin, and Parkin. Further insights are provided by an analysis of data for 20,000 men in the experienced American civilian laborforce. The data are fit with a loglinear model and then further analyzed with multidimensional scaling tec…
The size and distribution of the American Indian population: Fertility, mortality, migration, and residence
Assimilation in American Society: Occupational Achievement and Earnings for Ethnic Minorities in the United States, 1970 to 1990
American Indians and Natural Resource Development: Indigenous Peoples'Land, Now Sought After, Has Produced New Indian-White Problems
In the colonial period of U.S. history, American Indian tribes enjoyed the status of political sovereigns, and dealt as equals with the English Crown and colonial authorities. In the years following U.S. independence, legal, administrative, and military actions were used to redefine the meaning of tribal sovereignty. Conceptualizing these developments, "captive nations" refers to the limited sovereignty of tribes and their isolation and detachmen…
Measuring Hispanic Origin: Reflections on Hispanic Race Reporting
There are more than 50 million Hispanics in the United States, composing 16 percent of the population. Hispanics are also one of the fastest-growing race and ethnic groups. The American public often views and treats Hispanics as a racial group; yet 47 years after a Hispanic origin measure was added to the 1970 U.S. decennial census, and after numerous tests aimed at ameliorating racial measurement issues related to Hispanics, we continue to strug…
American Indians: The First of This Land
The American Opportunity Study: A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Outcomes, Evaluating Policy, and Advancing Basic Science
The American Opportunity Study is an ongoing initiative to build the country's capacity to access and analyze linked administrative data. It is best viewed as a population-level scaffolding on which other administrative data can then be hung. This scaffolding, if used as a stand-alone resource, will allow for long-run analyses of fundamental population and labor market processes. If combined with data from other sources, it will allow for long-ru…
American Indians: The First of This Land
Earnings of American Indians and Alaskan Natives: The Effects of Residence and Migration
This paper examines the effects of residence in metropolitan areas and migration from nonmetropolitan areas to metropolitan areas on the earnings of American Indian and Alaskan Native householders aged 25–54. The results indicate that: (1) the earnings of metropolitan Indians are markedly higher than those of nonmetropolitan Indians, but the earnings of nonmetropolitan-to-metropolitan migrants are very little more than those of nonmetropolitan st…
Cancer Screening and Risk Factor Rates Among American Indians
Objectives. We examined cancer screening and risk factor patterns in California using 4 different statistical tabulations of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations. Methods. We used the 2001 California Health Interview Survey to compare cancer screening and risk factor data across 4 different tabulation approaches. We calculated weighted prevalence estimates by gender and race/ethnicity for cancer screening and risk factors, sociode…
The Cherokees: A Population History
Journal Article The Cherokees: A Population History. By Russell Thornton with C. Matthew Snipp and Nancy Breen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. xvi + 237 pp. $35.00.) Get access David Henige David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1045–1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078821 Published: 01…
American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492
This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the New World, the numbers of native peoples declined sharply; entire tribes, often in the space of a few years, were wiped from the face of the earth. The fires of the holo…
Working-Class Differentiation and Men's Career Mobility
This paper reviews the usefulness of neo-Weberian ideas about social class for understanding patterns of men's career mobility. Special attention is devoted to the non-Marxist concepts of social class advocated by Giddens, Sorokin, and Parkin. Further insights are provided by an analysis of data for 20,000 men in the experienced American civilian labor force. The data are fit with a log linear model and then further analyzed with multidimensional…
Educational Credentials and the Mental‐manual Division of Labour
While the literature available shows that indicators of educational success are the most proximate influences deciding occupational class at the beginning of workers' careers, there are still many unsettled issues as to exactly why education is important for the reproduction of social classes. An unimportant, relatively unexplored facet of this problem is how educational criteria are used by employers, unions, professional associations and licens…
Race Relations and Cultural Differences: Educational and Interpersonal Perspectives
Introduction. Multicultural Education: Problems and Issues G K Verma and C Bagley. Part 1: Race Relations, Cultural Differences and Ethnocentrism. 1. Race Relations and Cultural Differences: Some Ideas on a Racial Frame of Reference Peter M E Figueroa. 2. Toward An Explanation of Ethnocentrism Versus Ethnorelativism Based Upon Reference Group Orientation. James C Mayer. 3. Toward a Typology of Stranger-Host Relationships. William B Gudykunst. Par…
Working-Class Differentiation and Men's Career Mobility
This paper reviews the usefulness of neo-Weberian ideas about social class for understanding patterns of men's career mobility. Special attention is devoted to the non-Marxist concepts of social class advocated by Giddens, Sorokin, and Parkin. Further insights are provided by an analysis of data for 20,000 men in the experienced American civilian labor force. The data are fit with a log linear model and then further analyzed with multidimensional…
Occupational Mobility and Social Class: Insights From Men's Career Mobility
This paper reviews several neo-Weberian ideas about social class for understanding patterns of men's career mobility. Special attention is devoted to the non-Marxist concepts of social class advocated by Giddens, Sorokin, and Parkin. Further insights are provided by an analysis of data for 20,000 men in the experienced American civilian laborforce. The data are fit with a loglinear model and then further analyzed with multidimensional scaling tec…
Who are American Indians? Some observations about the perils and pitfalls of data for race and ethnicity
Population Information in Twentieth-Century Census Volumes: 1900-1949
A Poison Stronger than Love: The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community
The Changing Political and Economic Status of the American Indians: From Captive Nations to Internal Colonies
Resource development on American Indian lands is bringing about a dramatic transformation of the political and economic status of American Indians. Recently, scholars observing this change have increasingly used underdevelopment theory to explain the nature of these changes. However, this discussion points out that as applied to American Indians, the perspective of underdevelopment theory is skewed in several important ways. Specifically, it fail…
American Indians and Natural Resource Development: Indigenous Peoples'Land, Now Sought After, Has Produced New Indian-White Problems
In the colonial period of U.S. history, American Indian tribes enjoyed the status of political sovereigns, and dealt as equals with the English Crown and colonial authorities. In the years following U.S. independence, legal, administrative, and military actions were used to redefine the meaning of tribal sovereignty. Conceptualizing these developments, "captive nations" refers to the limited sovereignty of tribes and their isolation and detachmen…
More on Occupational Mobility and Social Class
Earnings of American Indians and Alaskan Natives: The Effects of Residence and Migration
This paper examines the effects of residence in metropolitan areas and migration from nonmetropolitan areas to metropolitan areas on the earnings of American Indian and Alaskan Native householders aged 25–54. The results indicate that: (1) the earnings of metropolitan Indians are markedly higher than those of nonmetropolitan Indians, but the earnings of nonmetropolitan-to-metropolitan migrants are very little more than those of nonmetropolitan st…
Public Policy Impacts on American Indian Economic Development
He Loves His White Children Most
American Indians: The First of This Land
American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492
This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the New World, the numbers of native peoples declined sharply; entire tribes, often in the space of a few years, were wiped from the face of the earth. The fires of the holo…
The Cherokees: A Population History
Journal Article The Cherokees: A Population History. By Russell Thornton with C. Matthew Snipp and Nancy Breen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. xvi + 237 pp. $35.00.) Get access David Henige David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1045–1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078821 Published: 01…
A Research Note: American Indian Fertility Patterns: 1910 and 1940 to 1980
SINCE THOMAS MALTHUS (1914 [1798]), the historical fertility patterns of North American Indian populations have been a concern of historians, anthropologists, and other scholars (see Krzywicki, 1934; Aberle, Watkins and Pitney, 1940; Cook, 1976; Grinde, 1984; and Shoemaker, 1988). More recent fertility patterns, particularly those during the twentieth century, have come under scrutiny by anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and others (se…
American Indians: The First of This Land
The Cherokees: A Population History: Indians of the Southeast
Sociology
Indian Country, L. A: Maintaining Ethnic Community in Complex Society. Joan Weibel-Orlando
American Indians: The First of This Land
Sociological Perspectives on American Indians
The sociology of American Indians incorporates perspectives from across the social sciences. Recently, sociologists have taken a greater interest in American Indians, perhaps because American Indians have become increasingly visible in the diverse ethnic mosaic of American society. This review focuses on the position of American Indians in the US socioeconomic hierarchy: their numbers, where they live, and their social and economic well-being. Th…
Property Rights and Indian Economies
Disease and Demography in the Americas
Journal Article Disease and Demography in the Americas Get access Disease and Demography in the Americas. Edited by Verano John W. Ubelaker Douglas H.. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. x + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliographies, index. $62.00.) C. Matthew Snipp C. Matthew Snipp University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Vo…
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