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Title: How Social Status Shapes Race
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1. Penner, Andrew M.
Saperstein, Aliya
How Social Status Shapes Race
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105,50 (December 16, 2008): 19628-19630.
Also: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2604956
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences (NAS), United States
Keyword(s): Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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We show that racial perceptions are fluid; how individuals perceive their own race and how they are perceived by others depends in part on their social position. Using longitudinal data from a representative sample of Americans, we find that individuals who are unemployed, incarcerated, or impoverished are more likely to be seen and identify as black and less likely to be seen and identify as white, regardless of how they were classified or identified previously. This is consistent with the view that race is not a fixed individual attribute, but rather a changeable marker of status.
Bibliography Citation
Penner, Andrew M. and Aliya Saperstein. "How Social Status Shapes Race." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105,50 (December 16, 2008): 19628-19630.