For Economic Advantage or Something Else? A Case for Racial Identification Switching
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10430447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salvador Contrera (0000-0001-9472-0233, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, corresponding author), Salvador Contreras (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinbrug, TX, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 301-323 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Black Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6446 • E-ISSN: 1936-4814 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12114-016-9238-5 |
| OpenAlex | W2515987193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
The identity choices people take on serve as a filter for viewing the world. It is believed that race identity formation is in part a response to economic and social incentives. Using NELS 1988 dataset we evaluate at the individual level factors that affect changes in self-reported racial identity. We find that being multiracial, living in a non-affirmative action ban state, and relative income/education measures within race groups have an effect on racial identity switching. We find strong evidence that the social-political environments surrounding an affirmative action ban alters the likelihood that an individual will change race. Our results suggest that social factors when present dominate economic incentives to take on a different racial identity
Action (physics · Affect (linguistics · Affirmative action · Economics · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Incentive · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Race (biology · Racial formation theory · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · State (computer science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Gender Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |