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Title: Just Skin Deep? The Impact of Interviewer Race on the Assessment of African American Respondent Skin Tone
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Hannon, Lance DeFina, Robert |
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Just Skin Deep? The Impact of Interviewer Race on the Assessment of African American Respondent Skin Tone Race and Social Problems 6,4 (December 2014): 356-364. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-014-9128-z Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Discrimination; General Social Survey (GSS); Interviewer Characteristics; Racial Differences; Racial Equality/Inequality; Skin Tone Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the last decade, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has seen a significant increase in the number of discrimination claims based on skin shade. However, in some ways, substantiating colorism has proven to be more difficult than documenting racism, as skin tone data are rarely collected and few existing skin tone measures have been validated. The present study examines an increasingly popular skin tone scale that includes a professionally designed color guide to enhance rater consistency. Logistic regression analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and General Social Survey indicates that despite the addition of the color guide, the race of the interviewer matters for the assessment of respondent skin tone. On average, African American respondents with a white interviewer were about 3 times more likely to be classified as dark than those with an African American interviewer. We argue that failing to appropriately account for this race-of-interviewer effect can significantly impact colorism findings. |
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Hannon, Lance and Robert DeFina. "Just Skin Deep? The Impact of Interviewer Race on the Assessment of African American Respondent Skin Tone." Race and Social Problems 6,4 (December 2014): 356-364.
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