essay
Placing race in context
Ethnic and racial studies • 15 • Published In 1992 • Pages: 523-542
By: Rodríguez, Clara E., Cordero-Guzman, Hector.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of racial responses in the 1980 US census and racial self-identification among 240 randomly selected Puerto Rican travelers in a New York City airport. In the 1980 census, 52 percent of Puerto Ricans living in New York City checked the category 'other' and wrote in a Spanish descriptor when asked to identify themselves racially, 44 percent said that they were 'white,' and 3.9 percent said that they were 'black.' The authors' found that very few of the travelers used conventional US racial terms when asked to identify themselves racially. The authors also found that the longer the travelers lived in the United States the less likely they identified themselves as 'white.' Puerto Ricans do not divide US culture into White and Black races.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Interviewing in research
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Ethnic stratification
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clara Rodríguez and Hector Cordero-Guzman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 540-541)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79641700
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States