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Author: Petts, Amy L.
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Petts, Amy L. |
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Mapping Racial Boundaries: For Whom Do Varying Racial Identities Decrease Happiness? Race and Social Problems published online (3 November 2019): DOI: 10.1007/s12552-019-09271-2. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-019-09271-2 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Happiness (see Positive Affect/Optimism); Racial Equality/Inequality; Racial Studies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Racial boundaries are hard to measure but consequential for understanding larger processes of racial inequality. Some argue that the racial hierarchy is expanding to include a third category for non-black minority identities while others believe that a binary racial hierarchy will persist as many non-black minorities will come to be seen as white. I use the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 to investigate how racial identities that vary (either because racial identities changed across survey waves or because racial identities are incongruent with interviewer perceptions) speak to each of these theories. I assess the frequency of different racial variations and how different patterns of racial variations are associated with individuals' perceived level of happiness. When racial identities vary across time, context, or the perception of others, the work required to negotiate a racial identity can take a psychological toll and may decrease happiness. I find support for the whitening hypothesis; the most common type of racial variation includes respondents classified as non-black minorities by a household member later claiming a white identity. And, for those individuals, claiming a white identity is congruent with how they are perceived by interviewers. In addition, only for individuals who crossed black boundaries is racial variability consequential to perceived happiness, evidencing a strong racial boundary between black and anything else and more permeability in the boundary between non-black minorities and whites. |
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Petts, Amy L. "Mapping Racial Boundaries: For Whom Do Varying Racial Identities Decrease Happiness?" Race and Social Problems published online (3 November 2019): DOI: 10.1007/s12552-019-09271-2.
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Petts, Amy L. Petts, Richard James |
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Gender Matters: Racial Variation and Marital Stability Among Intraracial Couples Journal of Family Issues 40,13 (September 2019): 1808-1831. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192513X19849631 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Marital Stability; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Studies assessing differences between intraracial and interracial marriages typically use race data from one time point. Yet because racial identification can vary across time, context, or perspective, whether a relationship is defined as intraracial or interracial can also differ. We use a sample of 2,845 respondents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997, whose marriages are intraracial (based on 2002 data) to examine whether marital stability differs for those whose racial identification varied across waves and whether this effect is moderated by gender. Approximately 6% of respondents in intraracial relationships had inconsistent racial identities. We also find evidence that the association between racial variation and marital stability differs by gender. Women whose race varied are more likely to divorce than any other group, including static-race couples and men whose race varied. More attention should be given to intraracial heterogeneity, especially as groups that are more likely to have varying racial identities grow in number. |
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Bibliography Citation
Petts, Amy L. and Richard James Petts. "Gender Matters: Racial Variation and Marital Stability Among Intraracial Couples." Journal of Family Issues 40,13 (September 2019): 1808-1831.
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