Essential Measures
Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756819 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Gullickson (0000-0001-7237-8131, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 498-518 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764215613398 |
| OpenAlex | W2294482318 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 40 |
Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person's essentialized identity that answer the question of "who is what?" Despite this loose but well-understood connection between the two concepts and the availability of ancestry data on the U.S. census, researchers have rarely used the two sources of data in combination. In this article, drawing on theories of boundary formation, I compare these two forms of identification to explore the salience and social closure of racial boundaries. Specifically, I analyze race-reporting inconsistency and predict college completion at multiple levels of racial ancestry aggregation using Census data. The results suggest that, while much of the variation in these measures corresponds to popular "big race" conceptions of difference, considerable variation remains among individual ancestries
Census · Cognitive psychology · Genealogy · Identification (biology · Population · Race (biology · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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What Motivates Mixed Heritage People to Assert Their Ancestries
The Residential Segregation of the Middle Eastern and North African and South Asian Populations from the White Population in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 2012–2016
Institutional Injustice
Measuring Race and Ancestry in the Age of Genetic Testing
On the (Racial) Border
Race Counts
The Heaviest Drop of Blood
Educational Trajectories and Outcomes of Multiracial College Students
Boundary Blurring? Racial Identification among the Children of Interracial Couples
The multiple dimensions of race
From many strands
Who is black?
Caribbean New York
Postethnic America
New people
Changing race
Making Race and Nation
How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America
Race in North America
Black Identities
The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
Racial, Educational and Religious Endogamy in the United States
Ethnic Boundary Making
Assimilating to a White Identity
Ethnic Options
How the Irish Became White
Defining America’s Racial Boundaries
From bi-racial to tri-racial
The sociological imagination
There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama
Black/White Interracial Marriage Trends, 1850–2000
Land, Labor, and Difference
American Indian Ethnic Renewal
The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
Whiteness of a Different Color
Race Mixture
America's Changing Color Lines
The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries
The Case for a New Class Map
Race in a "Postracial" Epoch
Non-Hispanics with Latin American ancestry
Choosing race
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |