Mary E Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 99005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary E Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary E |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6125-191X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 810 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification
We link the 2010 Census microdata to the 2010–2020 American Community Surveys and Social Security Administration records to test patterns of ethnoracial identification change across this decade. After documenting substantial ethnoracial stability in some categories, we find substantial flows between many racial categories, more movement into Hispanic identification than movement out of the Hispanic category, foreign-born Hispanic multiracial resp…
Becoming a Citizen in the Age of Trump: Citizenship as Social Rights for Latines in Texas
In the anti-immigrant national context of the first Trump administration, what motivated Latine immigrants in Texas to pursue naturalization? Based on 31 Spanish and English semi-structured interviews conducted during 2017–2019, we examine how lawful permanent residents’ (LPRs’) perceptions of contemporary immigration policy and their social rights affect their motivations to naturalize. Surprisingly, we find that although fear of deportation was…
Mapping mixed families
Punishment is purple: The political economy of prison building
The United States is unique among rich countries in the world in its level of contemporary mass incarceration, a massive social change that has reshaped the nature of inequality and social mobility. We have more than tripled the number of prison facilities since 1970. Despite employing nearly 450,000 corrections officers, occupying a land mass of roughly 600 square miles, and costing conservatively $30 billion to build, this massive public works …
Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality
Researchers often assume that close interracial relationships, especially intermarriage, simultaneously reflect and cause a weakening of racial and ethnic boundaries and inequality between groups. In fact, interracial marriage is often used as a measure of social distance. We question those assumptions, noting the salient boundaries and durable inequalities that remain despite decades of increases in interracial relationships. We begin with histo…
Same-Sex and Different-Sex Interracial Couples: The Importance of Demographic and Religious Context
Do White People See Variation in Black Skin Tones? Reexamining a Purported Outgroup Homogeneity Effect
Previous research has reported that white survey interviewers remember black respondents’ skin tones in a much narrower range than recollections by black interviewers. This finding has been used to suggest that, in line with the one-drop rule, whites do not perceive meaningful differences between light- and dark-skinned black people. The authors reanalyze evidence thought to demonstrate relative homogeneity in white interviewers’ evaluation of bl…
Media Consumption and Racial Residential Preferences
Objective To what extent do mainstream media, social media, and ethnic media consumption, as dominant and counter‐dominant forms of public discourse, connect to where people prefer to live? We unpack whether media consumption influences such preferences in Texas, a racially segregated and increasingly racially diverse state. Methods Using the Texas Diversity Survey ( n = 1,322), we run a series of logit regression models, stratified by respondent…
On the (Racial) Border: Expressed Race, Reflected Race, and the U.S.-Mexico Border Context
In this era of growing immigration and debates about the U.S.-Mexico Border, the authors tackle a question that is growing in importance as the Border is at the forefront of national debate: Do people (White or Latinx) who believe that they are seen as Latinx experience more community division on the basis of proximity to the Border? The authors use data from the 2015 Texas Diversity Survey to examine the experience of racialization for people li…
Is a Picture Worth A Thousand Words? An Experiment Comparing Observer-Based Skin Tone Measures
Color and Constraint: Skin Tone and Identification among Recent Immigrants to the United States
Immigrants to the United States are assigned to ethnic and racial categories that often make little sense in an international context or are actively resisted by new arrivals. This study uses a large, nationally representative sample to test how skin color constrains and patterns that resistance, and how individual characteristics shape identification choices. Using the 2003 New Immigrant Survey, I find that skin tone has significant relationship…
Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States
Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
Living race together: The role of partner's race in racial/ethnic differences in smoking
Objective: Crossing racial lines provides a unique context for understanding racial patterns in smoking. This research explores whether adults whose unions cross racial lines behave more similarly to their own group or their partner's Design: Using a sample of respondents from the National Health Interview Survey (2001-2011), we compare the likelihood of current smoking and quitting smoking among adults in mixed-race unions to adults in same-race…
Is Blindness Contagious? Examining Racial Attitudes among People of Color with Close Interracial Relationships
Are people of color with close relationships with whites more likely to embrace colorblind racial ideologies (CBRI)? Using restricted data from waves 1 and 2 of the Portraits of American Life Study ( N = 2,713), collected in 2006 and 2012, we test whether black, Latina/o, and Asian respondents are more likely to express colorblind racial attitudes if they have an intimate partner or close friends who are white. We use ordinal logit models to exam…
Measuring the Diverging Components of Race: An Introduction
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…
Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born: Variation across Communities
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions. Using 2000 census race, ethnicity, and nat…
Both Personal and Public: Measuring Interethnic Marriage Attitudes
In this article, we examine a new survey measure called the “grid item” that we designed to assess personal willingness to engage in interethnic marriage, rather than approval of intergroup relations for an abstract other, while also mitigating social desirability pressures to respond in favor of intermarriage. Using three waves of 2006–2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) data (Ns range from 727 to 2,731 over waves and across sur…
Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
I wouldn't, but you can: Attitudes toward interracial relationships
Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
Paul Lawrence Farber, MIXING RACES: FROM SCIENTIFIC RACISM TO MODERN EVOLUTIONARY IDEAS, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, xi + 120 pp., $19.95 (paper) In this slim volume, Paul
Further Data on Misclassification: A Reply to Cheng and Powell
Politics and policies: Attitudes toward multiracial Americans
The growing prominence of the multiracial population in the United States is prompting new questions about attitudes toward multiracial people and popular opinion of policies designed to protect them from discrimination. Currently, American anti-discrimination policies are directed at groups who identify with a single race, but the rising profile of multiracial groups introduces new complexity into questions about racial policy. In this study, we…
Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide
How do multiracial groups "fit" into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals explained by the Latin Americanization hypothesis (Bonilla-Silva 2002), or a hardening racial divide between blacks and all other racial groups (Gans 1999; Yancey 2006)? Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I address these questions and show that the educational outcomes of mul…
The Implications of Racial Misclassification by Observers
We hypothesize that individuals who self-identify with one racial group but are routinely perceived by observers as "looking like" another racial group may experience negative outcomes associated with this stressful situation. Since American Indians experience very high rates of misclassification, we use them as our case in point. Drawing from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, our analyses compare young American Indian adults…
Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation
How will racial divisions in student friendship networks change as U.S. schools incorporate a growing Asian and Hispanic population? Drawing on theories of race in assimilation processes and the effects of relative group size on intergroup relations, several hypotheses are developed to address this question. These hypotheses are tested using data on friendships among students in grades 7 to 12 from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent He…
The Implications of Racial Misclassification by Observers
We hypothesize that individuals who self-identify with one racial group but are routinely perceived by observers as "looking like" another racial group may experience negative outcomes associated with this stressful situation. Since American Indians experience very high rates of misclassification, we use them as our case in point. Drawing from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, our analyses compare young American Indian adults…
I wouldn't, but you can: Attitudes toward interracial relationships
Family resources, social capital, and college attendance
"What About the Children?" The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents
We used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the social and psychological well-being of multiracial adolescents. Using two different measures of multiracial identity, we investigated the ways in which these adolescents compare to their monoracial counterparts on five outcomes: depression, seriously considering suicide, feeling socially accepted, feeling close to others at school, and participating in extrac…
Categorical Imperatives: The Interaction of Latino and Racial Identification
Objective. Most large data sets solicit “ethnic” identification and “racial” identification in separate questions. We test the relative salience of these two identifications by exploring whether individuals who chose both a Latino “ethnic” label and a “racial” label on separate survey questions still chose both of these labels when they were given a single combined question about their racial and ethnic origins. Methods. Using the May 1995 Race a…
Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
Thinking outside the (black) box: Measuring black and multiracial identification on surveys
Further Data on Misclassification: A Reply to Cheng and Powell
Measuring the Diverging Components of Race: An Introduction
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…
Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide
How do multiracial groups "fit" into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals explained by the Latin Americanization hypothesis (Bonilla-Silva 2002), or a hardening racial divide between blacks and all other racial groups (Gans 1999; Yancey 2006)? Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I address these questions and show that the educational outcomes of mul…
Politics and policies: Attitudes toward multiracial Americans
The growing prominence of the multiracial population in the United States is prompting new questions about attitudes toward multiracial people and popular opinion of policies designed to protect them from discrimination. Currently, American anti-discrimination policies are directed at groups who identify with a single race, but the rising profile of multiracial groups introduces new complexity into questions about racial policy. In this study, we…
Is a Picture Worth A Thousand Words? An Experiment Comparing Observer-Based Skin Tone Measures
Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born: Variation across Communities
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions. Using 2000 census race, ethnicity, and nat…
Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Caucasian Parents and Korean Adoptees: A Survey of Parents' Perceptions
This study explored the transracial adoption experiences of Caucasian parents who adopted children from Korea. Self-report data from parents of 117 adoptive families were used to compare mothers and fathers' perceptions in three key areas: parent reasons for adopting, family adjustment related to the adoption, and racial identity of adoptees. On the topic of adoptee's racial identity, parents' perceptions were compared over a seven-year period. O…
Is Blindness Contagious? Examining Racial Attitudes among People of Color with Close Interracial Relationships
Are people of color with close relationships with whites more likely to embrace colorblind racial ideologies (CBRI)? Using restricted data from waves 1 and 2 of the Portraits of American Life Study ( N = 2,713), collected in 2006 and 2012, we test whether black, Latina/o, and Asian respondents are more likely to express colorblind racial attitudes if they have an intimate partner or close friends who are white. We use ordinal logit models to exam…
Both Personal and Public: Measuring Interethnic Marriage Attitudes
In this article, we examine a new survey measure called the “grid item” that we designed to assess personal willingness to engage in interethnic marriage, rather than approval of intergroup relations for an abstract other, while also mitigating social desirability pressures to respond in favor of intermarriage. Using three waves of 2006–2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) data (Ns range from 727 to 2,731 over waves and across sur…
Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality
Researchers often assume that close interracial relationships, especially intermarriage, simultaneously reflect and cause a weakening of racial and ethnic boundaries and inequality between groups. In fact, interracial marriage is often used as a measure of social distance. We question those assumptions, noting the salient boundaries and durable inequalities that remain despite decades of increases in interracial relationships. We begin with histo…
Media Consumption and Racial Residential Preferences
Objective To what extent do mainstream media, social media, and ethnic media consumption, as dominant and counter‐dominant forms of public discourse, connect to where people prefer to live? We unpack whether media consumption influences such preferences in Texas, a racially segregated and increasingly racially diverse state. Methods Using the Texas Diversity Survey ( n = 1,322), we run a series of logit regression models, stratified by respondent…
Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
Paul Lawrence Farber, MIXING RACES: FROM SCIENTIFIC RACISM TO MODERN EVOLUTIONARY IDEAS, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, xi + 120 pp., $19.95 (paper) In this slim volume, Paul
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification
We link the 2010 Census microdata to the 2010–2020 American Community Surveys and Social Security Administration records to test patterns of ethnoracial identification change across this decade. After documenting substantial ethnoracial stability in some categories, we find substantial flows between many racial categories, more movement into Hispanic identification than movement out of the Hispanic category, foreign-born Hispanic multiracial resp…
Do White People See Variation in Black Skin Tones? Reexamining a Purported Outgroup Homogeneity Effect
Previous research has reported that white survey interviewers remember black respondents’ skin tones in a much narrower range than recollections by black interviewers. This finding has been used to suggest that, in line with the one-drop rule, whites do not perceive meaningful differences between light- and dark-skinned black people. The authors reanalyze evidence thought to demonstrate relative homogeneity in white interviewers’ evaluation of bl…
Color and Constraint: Skin Tone and Identification among Recent Immigrants to the United States
Immigrants to the United States are assigned to ethnic and racial categories that often make little sense in an international context or are actively resisted by new arrivals. This study uses a large, nationally representative sample to test how skin color constrains and patterns that resistance, and how individual characteristics shape identification choices. Using the 2003 New Immigrant Survey, I find that skin tone has significant relationship…
Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States
An Exploration of the Factors Shaping the Scholarly Productivity of Social Work Academicians
This article explores the impact of two sets of variables on the scholarly productivity of undergraduate social work educators. The variables associated with individual research orientation which are the most significant predictors of recent productivity are number of statistics courses, interest in research, number of research projects during training, and liking research. Environmental variables which are evidenced as most related to recent pro…
Caucasian Parents and Korean Adoptees: A Survey of Parents' Perceptions
This study explored the transracial adoption experiences of Caucasian parents who adopted children from Korea. Self-report data from parents of 117 adoptive families were used to compare mothers and fathers' perceptions in three key areas: parent reasons for adopting, family adjustment related to the adoption, and racial identity of adoptees. On the topic of adoptee's racial identity, parents' perceptions were compared over a seven-year period. O…
Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation
How will racial divisions in student friendship networks change as U.S. schools incorporate a growing Asian and Hispanic population? Drawing on theories of race in assimilation processes and the effects of relative group size on intergroup relations, several hypotheses are developed to address this question. These hypotheses are tested using data on friendships among students in grades 7 to 12 from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent He…
Categorical Imperatives: The Interaction of Latino and Racial Identification
Objective. Most large data sets solicit “ethnic” identification and “racial” identification in separate questions. We test the relative salience of these two identifications by exploring whether individuals who chose both a Latino “ethnic” label and a “racial” label on separate survey questions still chose both of these labels when they were given a single combined question about their racial and ethnic origins. Methods. Using the May 1995 Race a…
"What About the Children?" The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents
We used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the social and psychological well-being of multiracial adolescents. Using two different measures of multiracial identity, we investigated the ways in which these adolescents compare to their monoracial counterparts on five outcomes: depression, seriously considering suicide, feeling socially accepted, feeling close to others at school, and participating in extrac…
Family resources, social capital, and college attendance
The Implications of Racial Misclassification by Observers
We hypothesize that individuals who self-identify with one racial group but are routinely perceived by observers as "looking like" another racial group may experience negative outcomes associated with this stressful situation. Since American Indians experience very high rates of misclassification, we use them as our case in point. Drawing from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, our analyses compare young American Indian adults…
Thinking outside the (black) box: Measuring black and multiracial identification on surveys
Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide
How do multiracial groups "fit" into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals explained by the Latin Americanization hypothesis (Bonilla-Silva 2002), or a hardening racial divide between blacks and all other racial groups (Gans 1999; Yancey 2006)? Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I address these questions and show that the educational outcomes of mul…
Politics and policies: Attitudes toward multiracial Americans
The growing prominence of the multiracial population in the United States is prompting new questions about attitudes toward multiracial people and popular opinion of policies designed to protect them from discrimination. Currently, American anti-discrimination policies are directed at groups who identify with a single race, but the rising profile of multiracial groups introduces new complexity into questions about racial policy. In this study, we…
Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
Paul Lawrence Farber, MIXING RACES: FROM SCIENTIFIC RACISM TO MODERN EVOLUTIONARY IDEAS, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, xi + 120 pp., $19.95 (paper) In this slim volume, Paul
Further Data on Misclassification: A Reply to Cheng and Powell
I wouldn't, but you can: Attitudes toward interracial relationships
Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Both Personal and Public: Measuring Interethnic Marriage Attitudes
In this article, we examine a new survey measure called the “grid item” that we designed to assess personal willingness to engage in interethnic marriage, rather than approval of intergroup relations for an abstract other, while also mitigating social desirability pressures to respond in favor of intermarriage. Using three waves of 2006–2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) data (Ns range from 727 to 2,731 over waves and across sur…
Measuring the Diverging Components of Race: An Introduction
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…
Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born: Variation across Communities
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions. Using 2000 census race, ethnicity, and nat…
Living race together: The role of partner's race in racial/ethnic differences in smoking
Objective: Crossing racial lines provides a unique context for understanding racial patterns in smoking. This research explores whether adults whose unions cross racial lines behave more similarly to their own group or their partner's Design: Using a sample of respondents from the National Health Interview Survey (2001-2011), we compare the likelihood of current smoking and quitting smoking among adults in mixed-race unions to adults in same-race…
Is Blindness Contagious? Examining Racial Attitudes among People of Color with Close Interracial Relationships
Are people of color with close relationships with whites more likely to embrace colorblind racial ideologies (CBRI)? Using restricted data from waves 1 and 2 of the Portraits of American Life Study ( N = 2,713), collected in 2006 and 2012, we test whether black, Latina/o, and Asian respondents are more likely to express colorblind racial attitudes if they have an intimate partner or close friends who are white. We use ordinal logit models to exam…
Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States
Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
Media Consumption and Racial Residential Preferences
Objective To what extent do mainstream media, social media, and ethnic media consumption, as dominant and counter‐dominant forms of public discourse, connect to where people prefer to live? We unpack whether media consumption influences such preferences in Texas, a racially segregated and increasingly racially diverse state. Methods Using the Texas Diversity Survey ( n = 1,322), we run a series of logit regression models, stratified by respondent…
On the (Racial) Border: Expressed Race, Reflected Race, and the U.S.-Mexico Border Context
In this era of growing immigration and debates about the U.S.-Mexico Border, the authors tackle a question that is growing in importance as the Border is at the forefront of national debate: Do people (White or Latinx) who believe that they are seen as Latinx experience more community division on the basis of proximity to the Border? The authors use data from the 2015 Texas Diversity Survey to examine the experience of racialization for people li…
Is a Picture Worth A Thousand Words? An Experiment Comparing Observer-Based Skin Tone Measures
Color and Constraint: Skin Tone and Identification among Recent Immigrants to the United States
Immigrants to the United States are assigned to ethnic and racial categories that often make little sense in an international context or are actively resisted by new arrivals. This study uses a large, nationally representative sample to test how skin color constrains and patterns that resistance, and how individual characteristics shape identification choices. Using the 2003 New Immigrant Survey, I find that skin tone has significant relationship…
Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Race (biology (17 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (17 works) · Geography (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Ethnic group (13 works)