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Title: The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perceptions
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Saperstein, Aliya Penner, Andrew M. |
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The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perceptions Social Problems 57,1 (February 2010): 92-113. Also: http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.92 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of California Press Keyword(s): Incarceration/Jail; Racial Studies; Self-Perception The article reports on research conducted to determine whether being incarcerated in the United States affects how individuals perceive their own race and how they are perceived by others. Researchers used unique longitudinal data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. They found that respondents who have been incarcerated are more likely to identify as and be seen as black, and less likely to identify and be seen as white, regardless of how they were perceived or identified previously. Researchers concluded that their research results suggest that race is not a fixed characteristic of individuals but is flexible and continually negotiated in everyday interactions. |
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Saperstein, Aliya and Andrew M. Penner. "The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perceptions." Social Problems 57,1 (February 2010): 92-113.
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