Natural ambiguities: Racial categorization of multiracial individuals
By Jacqueline M. Chen, D. Hamilton. 2012
143 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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In Sociology and Political Science
- John T. Jost
- David M. Amodio
- Mahzarin R. Banaji
- J. Sidanius
- J. V. Bavel
- Leslie Berntsen
- Amy R. Krosch
- A. Ho
Citations in the corpus
- More Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Transformative Theory of Biculturalism (2017, background): “When people do use a multiracial label to categorize multiracials, categorization is slower and requires more effortful processing (Chen & Hamilton, 2012).”
- Shades of Race (2016, background): “On the other, racial categorization may be shaped by familiarity, such that individuals are more likely to recognize a range of phenotypes as members of their in-group (Chen & Hamilton, 2012; Willadsen-Jensen & Ito, 2006).”
- On the ideology of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces as Black (2013, background): “Furthermore, Chen and Hamilton (2012) point out that racial categorization (e.”
- Contraction as a Response to Group Threat: Demographic Decline and Whites’ Classification of People Who Are Ambiguously White (2020, unknown): “These studies are peppered with references to Barack Obama, Halle Berry, and Tiger Woods, public figures who either identify as multiracial or whose parents identify with different racial groups (e.g., Chen and Hamilton 2012; Cooley et al. 2018; Ho, Kteily, and Chen 2017; Krosch et al. 2013).”
- Learning Race from Face: A Survey (2014, background): “However, very recent reports [239], [240] indicate that multiracial people could be harder yet still recognizable.”
- Status boundary enforcement and the categorization of black–white biracials (2013, background): “P Importantly, the current studies begin to identify moderators of hypodescent, and in doing so, also help to explain why hypodescent is not always observed (e.g., Chen & Hamilton, 2012). that are likely to motivate individuals who are relatively high in SDO to act to preserve the status quo.”