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Abstract: This paper describes the impact of racial self-identification, racial ancestry, and racial composition of contexts on measures of depressive symptoms, achievement, and self-esteem among 1,417 multiracial youth and 7,310 monoracial youth ages 14-19. Comparisons are made both between multi- and monoracial groups, and within groups of multiracial respondents who self-identify in different single-race categories. Results show that racial ancestry, self-identification, and context are significantly related to these developmental outcomes. For multiracial youth, self-identifying as Black or Hispanic is associated with lower grades while simply having Black ancestry (regardless of self-identification) is not. Net of other factors, neither ancestry nor identification appear to have a significant impact on depressive symptoms among monoracial students but they have a significant impact for multi-racial part-Blacks and part-Hispanics. Racial context showed a significant impact only for neighborhood: the lower percentage of whites in a multiracial youth’s neighborhood, the lower his or her grades.

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Abstract: ?Three systems of racial inequality have existed in the United States: slavery, de jure segregation
(tenancy, ?Jim Crow?), and ?contemporary racial inequality? (de facto inequality). Such systems
are notably stable. Slavery existed roughly from the 1600s to the 1860s tenancy and Jim Crow
persisted from the 1870s to the 1960s, and contemporary system has been in place since the
1960s. Under what conditions do such generally stable systems of inequality change? What
factors influence the contours of the emerging systems? I address these questions by comparing
the political coalitions and world economic contexts surrounding shifts from one system to the
next. In doing so, I focus on two ?moments? of change: 1855-1870, and 1955-1970. Changes in
the dominant political coalitions during these two periods ushered in a change in the system of
racial inequality and formed the limits of new freedoms for African Americans.

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Abstract: Quantitative studies of racial attitudes typically assess respondents’ beliefs about other racial groups without specifying the gender of target group members. In this paper, we contend that such research is missing gendered nuances that have important consequences for our understanding of policy preferences and race and gender relations in society. We use data from 1,936 whites interviewed for the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality in Atlanta, Boston, and Los Angeles to develop and test a measure of gendered racial antipathy. We investigate the ways in which gender mediates the relationship between racial attitudes and support for affirmative action for African-Americans. Using OLS to examine two different types of affirmative action policy, special job training and educational assistance and hiring and promotion preferences, we find that the relationship between racial antipathy and policy preferences is deeply gendered. Antipathy towards Black women has the strongest influence on whites’ attitudes about affirmative action on both measures. Therefore, research that disregards gender may overestimate the salience of antipathy towards Black men and underestimate the salience of antipathy towards Black women in predicting whites’ policy preferences towards Blacks as a group. We conclude that gender is a crucial factor in understanding the mechanisms that shape white Americans’ views. We call for a rethinking of racial attitudes research to include the role of gendered racial antipathy in affirmative action opinions and in all other research on racial disadvantage in social life. Suggestions for both methodological and theoretical improvements are offered.

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Abstract: The paper explores whether the racial and ethnic compositions of firms and their surrounding localities matter in determining the use of replacement workers.