Latino Immigrants and the U.S. Racial Order: How and where Do They Fit In?

Autor/inn/en	Frank, Reanne; Redstone Akresh, Ilana; Bo Lu,
Titel	Latino Immigrants and the U.S. Racial Order: How and where Do They Fit In?
Quelle	In: American Sociological Review, 75 (2010) 3, S.378-401 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1224
DOI	10.1177/0003122410372216
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Hispanic Americans; Race; Surveys; Futures (of Society); Whites; Racial Identification; Racial Bias; Income; Classification; Prediction; Ethnicity; Regression (Statistics); United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Rasse; Abstammung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Future; Society; Zukunft; White; Weißer; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Einkommen; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Vorhersage; Ethnizität; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; USA
Abstract	How do Latino immigrants in the United States understand existing racial categories? And how does the existing U.S. racial order influence this understanding? Using data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), our analysis points to changes in how the U.S. racial order might operate in the future. We find that most Latino immigrants recognize the advantages of a White racial designation when asked to self-identify, but wider society is not often accepting of this White expansion. Our findings suggest that relatively darker-skinned Latino immigrants experience skin-color-based discrimination in the realm of annual income. Furthermore, Latinos who are most integrated into the United States are the most likely to opt out of the existing U.S. racial categorization scheme. We predict that a racial boundary is forming around some Latino immigrants: those with darker skin and those who have more experience in the U.S. racial stratification system. (Contains 14 notes and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10