Dropping the Hyphen? Becoming Latino(a)-American through Racialized Assimilation

Autor/in	Golash-Boza, Tanya
Titel	Dropping the Hyphen? Becoming Latino(a)-American through Racialized Assimilation
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 85 (2006) 1, S.27-55 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Hispanic Americans; Immigrants; Acculturation; Ethnicity; Predictor Variables; Racial Discrimination; National Surveys; Data Analysis; Racial Identification; Racial Bias; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Akkulturation; Ethnizität; Prädiktor; Racial bias; Rassismus; Auswertung; Racial discrimination; USA
Abstract	Early assimilation theorists predicted the eventual loss of ethnic distinctiveness for immigrants in the United States. In this paper, the author not only questions the possibilities that Latino and Latina Americans have for losing their ethnic distinctiveness, but also proposes that these possibilities vary widely within the Hispanic population. The central question posed in this paper is: In addition to traditional predictors of assimilation, do experiences of discrimination also affect ethnic identification patterns for Hispanics? Based on the analysis of two data sets, the 1989 Latino National Political Survey and the 2002 National Survey of Latinos, the author provides evidence that Latino/a Americans who have experienced discrimination are less likely to self-identify as "Americans," and more likely to self-identify with pan-ethnic or hyphenated American labels. The author contends that this is because experiences of discrimination teach some Latinos and Latinas that other citizens of the United States do not view them as "unhyphenated Americans." The author further proposes that, through a process of racialized assimilation, these Latin American immigrants and their children are becoming Latino and Latina Americans. (Contains 7 tables and 4 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10