{"id":8463,"date":"2017-01-09T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:15:16","slug":"fifty-shades-of-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2017\/01\/09\/fifty-shades-of-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2016: Fifty Shades of Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Alexis Rosenblum, William Darity, Jr., Angel L. Harris, Tod G. Hamilton, <\/span>“Looking Through the Shades: The Effect of Skin Color on Earnings by Region of Birth and Race for Immigrants to the United States,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2015<\/span><\/div>\n

Originally published March 15, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

Race is a socially constructed system of classification<\/a> often conceptualized as different tones of skin color, and it\u2019s easy to see how people may conflate the two. Interestingly enough, however, skin color can have distinct impacts, including tangible ones like differences in paychecks. A recent Sociology of Race & Ethnicity<\/em> article<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n

Alexis Rosenblum<\/a>, William Darity Jr<\/a>., Angel L. Harris<\/a>, and Tod G. Hamilton<\/a> draw on the New Immigrant Survey<\/a>, a nationally representative study sampling over 8,000 permanent-resident immigrants. Other scholars had already conducted some analyses on the NIS, but Rosenblum and her coauthors provide a vital intervention: describing how color variation predicts immigrant wages by home geographic region<\/em>, disaggregating data previously studied as composite.<\/p>\n

Their findings show that, overall, there is a negative relationship between skin color and wages\u2014darker immigrants are paid less. Further exploration goes further to show that immigrants from of European, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries do not<\/em> contribute to this overall finding: only darker-skinned immigrants from Latin American or Sub-Saharan-African countries are penalized on payday.<\/p>\n

The new work also makes it plain that skin shade matters more than race among respondents from Latin American or Caribbean nations. \u201cLight\u201d or \u201cdark\u201d skin color predicted wages in these groups better than \u201cwhite\u201d or \u201cblack\u201d racial identity. The opposite held true for Sub-Saharan respondents, among whom being identified as \u201cblack\u201d was a better predictor of lower wages than darker skin. As scholars tackle questions about assimilation, integration, and ethnic diversity, findings like these make us all remember that race and color have important effects, especially when considering how each intersects with class.<\/p>\n

See also Ellis P. Monk\u2019s <\/em>AJS findings that skin tone corresponds to unequal health outcomes<\/a>, covered on TSP by Amber Joy Powell.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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