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A lot of #Krug convos are bringing up issues related to racial identity, racial ambiguity, & colorism and I just want to say that all of these concepts are related but also very *different*
I want to share some relevant (mainly sociological) works in this #Thread
I want to share some relevant (mainly sociological) works in this #Thread
First, Nikki Kanna's work has explored passing and reflected appraisals for mixed race folks. Here w/ Cathryn Johnson on Black mixture "Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0190272510389014 and also Asian Ams too https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/019027250406700201
I love Jenn Sims' ( @RavenclawSoc23) @SREJournal article on how questioning race impacts ID choice: "Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332649216634740?rss=1
Racial perceptions aren't only fuzzy for mixed-race. In fact, Nancy Lopez discusses the idea of "street race". Here with colleagues she thinks through how someones "street race" impacts their health https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332649217708798
This work by Ginetta E. B. Candelario brings nuance to Caribbean Afro-Latinx identities and how even racial cues like, hair, matter for race https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=WKZhl3N6uiMC&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=Ginetta+E.+B.+Candelario&ots=WDJ1L9k0sl&sig=ZsMd4a5_1cSIXIGYCCSZE9ihbV4#v=onepage&q=Ginetta%20E.%20B.%20Candelario&f=false
We really tried to interrogate the impact of hair on racial perceptions and do find that changing hair from curly to straight does change how some women are perceived racially @RavenclawSoc23 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2019.1700296
Margaret Hunter's work on colorism asserts that it is a form of oppression that harms those with darker skin tones within and across racial categories (the only impact of colorism for those with lighter skin comes to questioning of authenticity) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00006.x
I say slight because there is a clear cost to those with darker skin as @EllisMonk's work has shown https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/682162?origin=JSTOR-pdf&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
and Angela Dixon's work reiterates this as global https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053315
and Angela Dixon's work reiterates this as global https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053315
Colorism then matters for life chances but also remains important for shaping racial categories. As work by @cynfeliciano shows: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764215613401
And this article by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and @EdlinVeras is great- I have it on my syllabus for my Black Identities course this semester "Out of the Shadows, into the Dark: Ethnoracial Dissonance and Identity Formation among Afro-Latinxs" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332649219829784
