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A CKN OW LED GEM EN TS......................................................................................................... III
LIST OF TA BLES AN D FIGURES............................................................................................ V I
CHA PTER 1 IN TRODU CTION ................................................................................................... 1
Research Questions............................................................................................................. 3
CHA PTER 2 REV IEW OF THE LITERA TU RE ......................................................................... 4
Changing D efinitions of Race............................................................................................ 4
Race under European Dom ination..................................................................................... 7
The One-Drop Rule or Hypo-Descent ............................................................................... 8
Color Stratification am ong Blacks..................................................................................... 9
Passing as W hite ............................................................................................................... 10
Challenge to the One-Drop Rule...................................................................................... 12
Biracial Identity ................................................................................................................ 13
Racial Classifications have Porous Borders .................................................................... 14
Race as a Sorting M echanism .......................................................................................... 15
Tri-Racial Isolate Groups................................................................................................. 17
The Case of the M ississippi Choctaw Rejected............................................................... 18
Racial M isclassification and N ative Am ericans .............................................................. 19
M ixed Race Individuals and K inship N etw orks .............................................................. 21
Racial Fusion and the H ispanics ...................................................................................... 24
The U .S. Census and the Social Construction of Race .................................................... 26
CHA PTER 3 TH EORETICA L PERSPECTIV ES....................................................................... 28
Racial Form ation Theory ................................................................................................. 28
A ssim ilation Theory......................................................................................................... 31
The Latin A m ericanization Thesis..................................... 32
Theoretical Perspectives: D iscussion................................... 37
CHA PTER 4 M ETH OD S .......................................................................................................... 45
Recruitm ent.................................................................................................................... 45
D ata-G athering Instrum ents.......................................... 47iv
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Smith, Starita. “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity and the Social Construction of Race in the Us, dissertation, May 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115163/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .