W D Roth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 50717 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W D Roth |
| NOMBRES | W D |
| APELLIDO | Roth |
| FIRMA | ROTH W D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2455-7738 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 668 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Seen as Latino, Assumed Lower Class
Although racial and class stereotypes are intertwined, few studies have examined the degree to which racial perceptions are linked to assumptions about social class. Among Latinos, racial self-identities often do not align with racial classifications by others, complicating debates about their place in the U.S. racial order. This study draws on unique survey data in which respondents classify the race, immigrant status, and social class of people…
Determinants of genetic essentialist beliefs about race
Segmented assimilation within and without
Linking race and genes
The genomic revolution is highly relevant to scholarship on racial conceptualization. As genomic research has increasingly focused on small amounts of variation between ancestral groups, it may promote beliefs in racial essentialism. Genetic ancestry tests (GATs) are one of the primary ways the consequences of the genomic revolution are communicated to laypersons, necessitating a better understanding of how test-takers conceptualize race. We anal…
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups
The phenomenon of widespread genetic ancestry testing has raised questions about its social impact, particularly on issues of race. Some accounts suggest testing can promote bridging social capital - connections between racial groups. In this multi-method paper, we ask whether (1) taking genetic ancestry tests (GATs) and (2) receiving results of African, Asian, or Native American ancestry increases network racial diversity for White Americans. We…
Genetic Options and Constraints
An estimated 21% of US adults have taken genetic ancestry tests (GATs). Recent studies have found that many test-takers change their ethnic and racial identities based on GAT results, viewing them through social lenses rather than always deferring to genetic information. Yet these studies have several limitations; most fail to consider the counterfactual or account for ancestry percentages reported in admixture tests. In this first randomized con…
Conceptualizations of Race
Demonstrating how race is socially constructed has been a core sociological objective, yet many individuals continue to hold essentialist and other concepts of what races are and how to account for group differences. These conceptualizations have crucial consequences for intergroup attitudes, support for social policies, and structures of inequality, all of which are key sociological concerns; yet much of the research in this area has emerged out…
Beyond Money Whitening
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people's socioeconomic status. In both Latin America and the United States, someone with higher SES is more likely to be classified as White than others of similar appearance, a pattern epitomized by the expression "money whitens." However, recent studies of the effect of SES on racial classifications …
The Role of Skin Color in Latino Social Networks
How does skin color shape the social networks and integration pathways of phenotypically diverse immigrant groups? Focusing on Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, groups with considerable diversity across the Black-White color line, the authors explore whether migrants to the United States have greater color homophily in their primary social networks than nonmigrants in the sending societies. The authors analyze egocentric network data, including uniqu…
Race Migrations
Systemic Anti-Black Racism Must Be Dismantled
Establishing the Denominator
For multiracial, Hispanic, and Native Americans, norms for racial and ethnic self-identification are less well established than they are for other population groups. There is considerable variation and fluidity in how multiracial, Hispanic, and Native Americans self-identify, as well as how they are classified by others. This presents challenges to researchers and analysts in terms of consistently and accurately estimating the size and population…
Genetic Options
The rapid growth of genetic ancestry testing has brought concerns that these tests will transform consumers’ racial and ethnic identities, producing “geneticized” identities determined by genetic knowledge. Drawing on 100 qualitative interviews with white, black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Native Americans, the authors develop the genetic options theory to account for how genetic ancestry tests influence consumers’ ethnic and racial identities. …
Unsettled identities amid settled classifications? Toward a sociology of racial appraisals
Individuals are claiming greater scope for choice in their racial identities. But how they \nare seen and classified by others is not necessarily changing in a similar way. Racial \nappraisals are the way that people classify the race of others, both particular individuals \nand larger groups. In this paper, I make a case for the study of racial appraisals as a field \nof sociological inquiry. I map out the different analytical levels and methodo…
Identity Work
In this theoretical analysis, we discuss the attributional and enactment approaches to identity and present a new Ethnic-Racial Identity Enactment Model derived from extant theory and research. We highlight modes of identity work that provide 1) self-concept and self-esteem protection; 2) achievement and success during everyday encounters; 3) a sense of belonging and attachment to one’s ascriptive group; and 4) the relation between internalized o…
Methodological pitfalls of measuring race
Official statistics are political creations more than theoretically-guided concepts. The \npapers in this panel make this exceptionally clear, as does the work of many others (e.g., Loveman \n2014; Nobles 2000; Prewitt 2013). This means that official measures of race in countries around \nthe world are unlikely to be guided by theoretical concern for distinguishing the different \ndimensions that are all embedded under the umbrella term: "race". …
Measuring the Diverging Components of Race
This special issue brings together original research that advances the emerging subfield on the measurement and analysis of varying components of race. The articles provide insight into how social scientists can tease apart the multiple components of race and leverage them to better understand how race continues to divide life chances, creatively using existing and new sources of data. The articles speak to three key themes: how we can better und…
The multiple dimensions of race
Increasing numbers of people in the United States and beyond experience "race" not as a \nsingle, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions. This article \ndistinguishes the multiple dimensions of the concept of race, including racial identity, self-classification, observed race, reflected race, phenotype, and racial ancestry. With the word \n"race" used as a proxy for each of these dimensions, much of our scholarship and publ…
Native American DNA
Relocating Prejudice
Immigration is changing the racial composition of many societies. Yet leading theories of racial prejudice, even in a multiracial context, focus on dynamics in a single nation-state and fail to account for the experiences of the foreign-born. We adopt a transnational approach that incorporates processes creating prejudice from both inside and outside the receiving society and that shows how attitudes move across borders through immigration, trans…
A Single Shade of 'Negro
In and Out of the Ethnic Economy
The economic benefits to immigrants of taking jobs in ethnic workplaces, relative to the open economy, are heavily debated. We examine longitudinally differences across immigrant categories in how the choice of ethnic or non-ethnic workplace influences the ethnic composition of social networks and how these factors impact immigrants’ economic success. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, with data 6 months, 2 years, and 4 years …
The costs and benefits of ‘red tape’
This paper explicates a central conflict that can affect science research organizations, the conflict between the anti-bureaucratic stance believed to advance science and concerns for gender equity rooted in the universalist ethos of science. We present a case study of a science research organization, using employment and publication records, a survey of 308 employees, and qualitative interviews with 60 employees. We show how anti-bureaucratic or…
Racial Mismatch
Objectives. A primary justification for collecting U.S. racial statistics is the need to monitor racial discrimination. This article aims to show how analyses of Hispanics—who may officially be of any race—tend to miss discrimination based on racial appearance by relying on data that instead capture racial self‐identification, a different aspect of race that often does not correspond. Methods. The study analyzes 60 qualitative interviews with Dom…
Ginetta E.B. Candelario, Black Behind the Ears
The multiple dimensions of race
Increasing numbers of people in the United States and beyond experience "race" not as a \nsingle, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions. This article \ndistinguishes the multiple dimensions of the concept of race, including racial identity, self-classification, observed race, reflected race, phenotype, and racial ancestry. With the word \n"race" used as a proxy for each of these dimensions, much of our scholarship and publ…
The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages
Racial Mismatch
Objectives. A primary justification for collecting U.S. racial statistics is the need to monitor racial discrimination. This article aims to show how analyses of Hispanics—who may officially be of any race—tend to miss discrimination based on racial appearance by relying on data that instead capture racial self‐identification, a different aspect of race that often does not correspond. Methods. The study analyzes 60 qualitative interviews with Dom…
Genetic Options
The rapid growth of genetic ancestry testing has brought concerns that these tests will transform consumers’ racial and ethnic identities, producing “geneticized” identities determined by genetic knowledge. Drawing on 100 qualitative interviews with white, black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Native Americans, the authors develop the genetic options theory to account for how genetic ancestry tests influence consumers’ ethnic and racial identities. …
Unsettled identities amid settled classifications? Toward a sociology of racial appraisals
Individuals are claiming greater scope for choice in their racial identities. But how they \nare seen and classified by others is not necessarily changing in a similar way. Racial \nappraisals are the way that people classify the race of others, both particular individuals \nand larger groups. In this paper, I make a case for the study of racial appraisals as a field \nof sociological inquiry. I map out the different analytical levels and methodo…
Conceptualizations of Race
Demonstrating how race is socially constructed has been a core sociological objective, yet many individuals continue to hold essentialist and other concepts of what races are and how to account for group differences. These conceptualizations have crucial consequences for intergroup attitudes, support for social policies, and structures of inequality, all of which are key sociological concerns; yet much of the research in this area has emerged out…
Beyond Money Whitening
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people's socioeconomic status. In both Latin America and the United States, someone with higher SES is more likely to be classified as White than others of similar appearance, a pattern epitomized by the expression "money whitens." However, recent studies of the effect of SES on racial classifications …
Latino before the world
Studies of panethnic boundary formation focus on multi-ethnic environments like immigrant receiving nations. Central to these accounts are the structured interactions between the ethnic majority and the minorities they perceive as a homogenous group. I argue that theoretical models of panethnicity overlook how panethnic identities may be extended transnationally to migrant sending societies lacking local ethnic interactions. Using multi-sited eth…
Relocating Prejudice
Immigration is changing the racial composition of many societies. Yet leading theories of racial prejudice, even in a multiracial context, focus on dynamics in a single nation-state and fail to account for the experiences of the foreign-born. We adopt a transnational approach that incorporates processes creating prejudice from both inside and outside the receiving society and that shows how attitudes move across borders through immigration, trans…
Measuring the Diverging Components of Race
This special issue brings together original research that advances the emerging subfield on the measurement and analysis of varying components of race. The articles provide insight into how social scientists can tease apart the multiple components of race and leverage them to better understand how race continues to divide life chances, creatively using existing and new sources of data. The articles speak to three key themes: how we can better und…
The Rashomon Effect
Positivist and interpretivist analytical approaches are frequently believed to be incompatible as research strategies and ways of understanding the world. This article argues that not only may versions of positivism and interpretivism be combined in the analysis of contested events, but this combination can further the goals of both approaches by contributing information that may have been missed by adopting only one perspective. The authors illu…
The costs and benefits of ‘red tape’
This paper explicates a central conflict that can affect science research organizations, the conflict between the anti-bureaucratic stance believed to advance science and concerns for gender equity rooted in the universalist ethos of science. We present a case study of a science research organization, using employment and publication records, a survey of 308 employees, and qualitative interviews with 60 employees. We show how anti-bureaucratic or…
Establishing the Denominator
For multiracial, Hispanic, and Native Americans, norms for racial and ethnic self-identification are less well established than they are for other population groups. There is considerable variation and fluidity in how multiracial, Hispanic, and Native Americans self-identify, as well as how they are classified by others. This presents challenges to researchers and analysts in terms of consistently and accurately estimating the size and population…
In and Out of the Ethnic Economy
The economic benefits to immigrants of taking jobs in ethnic workplaces, relative to the open economy, are heavily debated. We examine longitudinally differences across immigrant categories in how the choice of ethnic or non-ethnic workplace influences the ethnic composition of social networks and how these factors impact immigrants’ economic success. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, with data 6 months, 2 years, and 4 years …
Rethinking Development in Latin America
Methodological pitfalls of measuring race
Official statistics are political creations more than theoretically-guided concepts. The \npapers in this panel make this exceptionally clear, as does the work of many others (e.g., Loveman \n2014; Nobles 2000; Prewitt 2013). This means that official measures of race in countries around \nthe world are unlikely to be guided by theoretical concern for distinguishing the different \ndimensions that are all embedded under the umbrella term: "race". …
A Single Shade of 'Negro
Segmented assimilation within and without
Systemic Anti-Black Racism Must Be Dismantled
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups
The phenomenon of widespread genetic ancestry testing has raised questions about its social impact, particularly on issues of race. Some accounts suggest testing can promote bridging social capital - connections between racial groups. In this multi-method paper, we ask whether (1) taking genetic ancestry tests (GATs) and (2) receiving results of African, Asian, or Native American ancestry increases network racial diversity for White Americans. We…
Genetic Options and Constraints
An estimated 21% of US adults have taken genetic ancestry tests (GATs). Recent studies have found that many test-takers change their ethnic and racial identities based on GAT results, viewing them through social lenses rather than always deferring to genetic information. Yet these studies have several limitations; most fail to consider the counterfactual or account for ancestry percentages reported in admixture tests. In this first randomized con…
The Rashomon Effect
Positivist and interpretivist analytical approaches are frequently believed to be incompatible as research strategies and ways of understanding the world. This article argues that not only may versions of positivism and interpretivism be combined in the analysis of contested events, but this combination can further the goals of both approaches by contributing information that may have been missed by adopting only one perspective. The authors illu…
The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages
Rethinking Development in Latin America
Product Review
“There Is No Racism Here”
Integrating Multiple Identities
Ginetta E.B. Candelario, Black Behind the Ears
Latino before the world
Studies of panethnic boundary formation focus on multi-ethnic environments like immigrant receiving nations. Central to these accounts are the structured interactions between the ethnic majority and the minorities they perceive as a homogenous group. I argue that theoretical models of panethnicity overlook how panethnic identities may be extended transnationally to migrant sending societies lacking local ethnic interactions. Using multi-sited eth…
Racial Mismatch
Objectives. A primary justification for collecting U.S. racial statistics is the need to monitor racial discrimination. This article aims to show how analyses of Hispanics—who may officially be of any race—tend to miss discrimination based on racial appearance by relying on data that instead capture racial self‐identification, a different aspect of race that often does not correspond. Methods. The study analyzes 60 qualitative interviews with Dom…
The costs and benefits of ‘red tape’
This paper explicates a central conflict that can affect science research organizations, the conflict between the anti-bureaucratic stance believed to advance science and concerns for gender equity rooted in the universalist ethos of science. We present a case study of a science research organization, using employment and publication records, a survey of 308 employees, and qualitative interviews with 60 employees. We show how anti-bureaucratic or…
In and Out of the Ethnic Economy
The economic benefits to immigrants of taking jobs in ethnic workplaces, relative to the open economy, are heavily debated. We examine longitudinally differences across immigrant categories in how the choice of ethnic or non-ethnic workplace influences the ethnic composition of social networks and how these factors impact immigrants’ economic success. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, with data 6 months, 2 years, and 4 years …
Relocating Prejudice
Immigration is changing the racial composition of many societies. Yet leading theories of racial prejudice, even in a multiracial context, focus on dynamics in a single nation-state and fail to account for the experiences of the foreign-born. We adopt a transnational approach that incorporates processes creating prejudice from both inside and outside the receiving society and that shows how attitudes move across borders through immigration, trans…
A Single Shade of 'Negro
Native American DNA
Measuring the Diverging Components of Race
This special issue brings together original research that advances the emerging subfield on the measurement and analysis of varying components of race. The articles provide insight into how social scientists can tease apart the multiple components of race and leverage them to better understand how race continues to divide life chances, creatively using existing and new sources of data. The articles speak to three key themes: how we can better und…
The multiple dimensions of race
Increasing numbers of people in the United States and beyond experience "race" not as a \nsingle, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions. This article \ndistinguishes the multiple dimensions of the concept of race, including racial identity, self-classification, observed race, reflected race, phenotype, and racial ancestry. With the word \n"race" used as a proxy for each of these dimensions, much of our scholarship and publ…
Identity Work
In this theoretical analysis, we discuss the attributional and enactment approaches to identity and present a new Ethnic-Racial Identity Enactment Model derived from extant theory and research. We highlight modes of identity work that provide 1) self-concept and self-esteem protection; 2) achievement and success during everyday encounters; 3) a sense of belonging and attachment to one’s ascriptive group; and 4) the relation between internalized o…
Methodological pitfalls of measuring race
Official statistics are political creations more than theoretically-guided concepts. The \npapers in this panel make this exceptionally clear, as does the work of many others (e.g., Loveman \n2014; Nobles 2000; Prewitt 2013). This means that official measures of race in countries around \nthe world are unlikely to be guided by theoretical concern for distinguishing the different \ndimensions that are all embedded under the umbrella term: "race". …
Establishing the Denominator
For multiracial, Hispanic, and Native Americans, norms for racial and ethnic self-identification are less well established than they are for other population groups. There is considerable variation and fluidity in how multiracial, Hispanic, and Native Americans self-identify, as well as how they are classified by others. This presents challenges to researchers and analysts in terms of consistently and accurately estimating the size and population…
Genetic Options
The rapid growth of genetic ancestry testing has brought concerns that these tests will transform consumers’ racial and ethnic identities, producing “geneticized” identities determined by genetic knowledge. Drawing on 100 qualitative interviews with white, black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Native Americans, the authors develop the genetic options theory to account for how genetic ancestry tests influence consumers’ ethnic and racial identities. …
Unsettled identities amid settled classifications? Toward a sociology of racial appraisals
Individuals are claiming greater scope for choice in their racial identities. But how they \nare seen and classified by others is not necessarily changing in a similar way. Racial \nappraisals are the way that people classify the race of others, both particular individuals \nand larger groups. In this paper, I make a case for the study of racial appraisals as a field \nof sociological inquiry. I map out the different analytical levels and methodo…
Race Migrations
Systemic Anti-Black Racism Must Be Dismantled
The Role of Skin Color in Latino Social Networks
How does skin color shape the social networks and integration pathways of phenotypically diverse immigrant groups? Focusing on Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, groups with considerable diversity across the Black-White color line, the authors explore whether migrants to the United States have greater color homophily in their primary social networks than nonmigrants in the sending societies. The authors analyze egocentric network data, including uniqu…
Beyond Money Whitening
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people's socioeconomic status. In both Latin America and the United States, someone with higher SES is more likely to be classified as White than others of similar appearance, a pattern epitomized by the expression "money whitens." However, recent studies of the effect of SES on racial classifications …
Sociology (27 obras) · Gender Studies (21 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (16 obras) · Gender Studies (15 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Ethnic group (13 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Anthropology (10 obras) · Race (biology (10 obras)