Beyond Race/Ethnicity: Skin Color, Gender, and the Health of Young Adults in the United States

The rise of cohabitation in family process among American young adults and declining rates ofmarriage among cohabitors are considered by some scholars as evidence for the importance ofsociety-wide ideational shifts propelling recent changes in family. With data on two cohabitingcohorts from the NSFG 1995 and 2006-10, the current study finds that marriage rates amongcohabitors have declined steeply among those with no college degree, resulting in growingeducational disparities over time. Moreover, there are no differences in marital intentions byeducation (or race-ethnicity) among recent cohabitors. We discuss how findings of this studyspeak to the changes in the dynamics of social stratification system in the United States andsuggest that institutional and material constraints are at least as important as ideational accountsin understanding family change and family behavior of contemporary young adults.

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Race/ethnicity, citizenship status, and crime examined through trauma experiences among young adults in the United States

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice ◽

10.1080/15377938.2019.1570413 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 110-132

Author(s):

Christopher Allen Mallett ◽

Miyuki Fukushima Tedor ◽

Linda M. Quinn

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Young Adults ◽

The United States ◽

Citizenship Status ◽

Race Ethnicity

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Beyond Race/Ethnicity: Skin Color and Cardiometabolic Health Among Blacks and Hispanics in the United States

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health ◽

10.1007/s10903-016-0495-y ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

pp. 1018-1026 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Joshua Wassink ◽

Krista M. Perreira ◽

Kathleen M. Harris

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Skin Color ◽

The United States ◽

Cardiometabolic Health ◽

Race Ethnicity

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A Different Kind of Brown: Arabs and Middle Easterners as Anti-American Muslims

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity ◽

10.1177/2332649217706089 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 178-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Bradley J. Zopf

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Skin Color ◽

Minority Groups ◽

The United States ◽

National Origin ◽

Racial Classification ◽

American Muslims ◽

American Muslim ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Middle Easterners

The growth of nonwhite/nonblack ethnoracial minority groups, especially Latina/os, Asians, and Arab/Middle Easterners, is redefining the United States racial landscape. These groups, which defy straightforward racial classification and occupy different positions in the racial order, challenge narrow conceptualizations of race based on skin color and phenotype. Interviews with 53 Egyptian and Egyptian Americans reveal the existence of a brown racialization that simultaneously homogenizes, yet differentiates, brown-skinned ethnoracial groups. Their narratives indicate a brown ethnoracial category differentiated by ethnic, national origin, and religious differences. In problematizing the homogenization of this broad brown ethnoracial category, Egyptians emphasize the racialization of Islam as a key differentiating factor distinguishing them as a particular kind of brown. This research demonstrates racialization as a layered process in which race, ethnicity, national origin, and religion combine in unique ways in defining Arabs and Middle Easterners not only as brown and foreign but also more specifically as anti-American Muslim terrorists.

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