Thread by @thePhDandMe

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

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" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01… and also Asian Ams too journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

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" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

This work by Ginetta E. B. Candelario brings nuance to Caribbean Afro-Latinx identities and how even racial cues like, hair, matter for race

books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr…

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 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I say slight because there is a clear cost to those with darker skin as @EllisMonk's work has shown jstor.org/stable/10.1086…
and Angela Dixon's work reiterates this as global annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Colorism then matters for life chances but also remains important for shaping racial categories. As work by @cynfeliciano shows:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

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" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

*Khanna (my bad!)

OK I am adding more. ALL of @WendyRothSoc's work on racial classification is great, and here in asking about "Unsettled identities amid settled classifications" she pushes towards a full sociology of racial appraisals
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

And because I have done more work on this I might pub that too

Here, I look at "Inconsistency within expressed and observed racial identifications" over time and how it interacts with skin color. I looked at those claims to American Indian Identity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

Then, with @RyonCobb , C S. Thomas, and @SandyDarity we examined both self-identified race and other identified skin tone and found they matter in intragroup variation in allostatic load among Black Americans

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Importantly @AnnJMorning discusses how "claims of race-group membership are being complicated by technological developments in genetics and in cosmetics, as well as by new respect for subjective self-identification" leading to kaleidoscopic arrays of race tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…