{"id":67851,"date":"2015-09-24T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=67851"},"modified":"2017-09-17T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:26:12","slug":"unemployment-can-change-your-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/09\/24\/unemployment-can-change-your-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment can change your race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 6-minute video below, Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein discusses her research showing that the\u00a0perception of other peoples&#8217; race is shaped by what we know about them.\u00a0She uses data collected through a series of\u00a0in-person interviews in which interviewers sit down with respondents several times over many\u00a0years, learn about what&#8217;s happened and, among other things, make a judgment call as to\u00a0their race. You may be surprised how often racial designations. In one of her samples,\u00a020% of respondents were inconsistently identified, meaning that they were given different racial classifications by different interviewers at least once.<\/p>\n<p>Saperstein found\u00a0that a person judged as white in an early interview was\u00a0more likely to be marked as black in a later interview if they experienced a life event that is stereotypically associated with blackness, like imprisonment or unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>She and some colleagues also did an experiment, asking\u00a0subjects to indicate whether people with\u00a0black, white, and ambiguous faces dressed in a suit or\u00a0a blue work shirt were white or black. Tracing their mouse paths, it was clear that the same face in a suit was more easily categorized as white than the one in a work shirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/53.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67852\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/53.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"488\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Race is a social construction, not just in the sense that we made it up, but in that it&#8217;s flexible and dependent on status as well as phenotype.<\/p>\n<p>She finishes with the observation that, while phenotype definitely impacts a person&#8217;s\u00a0life chances, we also need to be aware that differences in education, income, and imprisonment reflect not only bias against phenotype, but the fact\u00a0that success begets whiteness. And vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the whole thing here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jiwieME2tis[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>The Colbert Report also referenced Saperstein&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:09048e17-1ecb-4da8-8a32-c61243a2d6ea\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 6-minute video below, Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein discusses her research showing that the\u00a0perception of other peoples&#8217; race is shaped by what we know about them.\u00a0She uses data collected through a series of\u00a0in-person interviews in which interviewers sit down with respondents several times over many\u00a0years, learn about what&#8217;s happened and, among other things, make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":67853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,2056,34,23699,274,283,285,1760,20063,1757,293,37],"class_list":["post-67851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-crimelaw","tag-education","tag-intersectionality-race-x-class","tag-methodsuse-of-data","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-social-construction","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/8.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71757,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67851\/revisions\/71757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}