Apparently economic and other social circumstances can affect what race people see you as, too. Which is fascinating, illuminating, and more than a bit disappointing.
'Saperstein, along with researchers Andrew Penner and Jessica Kizer, pored through thousands of surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which tracks its participants for several years. What Saperstein found from the responses was that “If someone went from being employed to being unemployed, or being out of prison to being in prison, or being off welfare to being on welfare, the interviewer was more likely to see the person as black – after they experienced that sort of downward mobility – than before.”
Saperstein found the same trends across other races — people who died from liver failure were more likely to be listed as Native American on the coroner’s report, even if the family indicated another race.
'[…] “One fascinating thing that Saperstein has found is that it isn’t just other people’s perceptions of you that change, Vendanta added. “The survey that she followed also asked people to report their own race. And she found that when people went to prison, they became more likely to think of themselves as black. And that’s because their minds were also subject to this very same stereotypes.”'
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