Consistent Divisions or Methodological Decisions? Assessing the U.S. Racial Hierarchy Across Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Scholars have offered a range of perspectives on the twenty-first century racial landscape with little consensus about either the current state of the U.S. racial hierarchy or its future trajectory. We offer a more comprehensive assessment, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to study racial stratification across a number of socioeconomic outcomes. We pay particular attention to the robustness of results across different categorization schemes that account for self-identification and interviewer classification, as well as racial fluidity. Although we observe that White and Asian Americans generally have the best socioeconomic outcomes, on average, while Black Americans and American Indians have the worst, we also find meaningful differ

SUBMITTER: Guluma B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8792454 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature