What’s Your 'Street Race'? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs
| Autor: | Lisa Cacari-Stone, Melina Juárez, Edward D. Vargas, Nancy López, Sonia P. Bettez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Intersectionality
Gerontology 030505 public health Inequality media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Race and health Mental health Article Odds 03 medical and health sciences Race (biology) 0302 clinical medicine Racialization 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 4:49-66 |
| ISSN: | 2332-6506 2332-6492 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2332649217708798 |
| Popis: | Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N = 1,197), we examine the relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional measures of race: (1) street race, or how you believe other “Americans” perceive your race at the level of the street; (2) socially assigned race, or what we call ascribed race, which refers to how you believe others usually classify your race in the United States; and (3) self-perceived race, or how you usually self-classify your race on questionnaires. We engage in intersectional inquiry by combining street race and gender. We find that only self-perceived race correlates with physical health and that street race is associated with mental health. We also find that men reporting their street race as Latinx or Arab were associated with higher odds of reporting worse mental health outcomes. One surprising finding was that for physical health, men reporting their street race as Latinx were associated with higher odds of reporting optimal physical health. Among women, those reporting their street race as Mexican were associated with lower odds of reporting optimal physical health when compared to all other women; for mental health status, however, we found no differences among women. We argue that street race is a promising multidimensional measure of race for exploring inequality among Latinxs. |
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