Doctoral Dissertation Research: Racial Identity at Home and Abroad: Its Impact on Puerto Ricans' and Dominicans' Social Networks and Economic Mobility

本文将第一代多米尼加和波多黎各移民在纽约的种族认同过程与这些群体在其原籍国的种族认同过程进行比较。拉丁美洲人倾向于将种族视为一个统一体，其类别比美国人所接受的要多得多。对于来自这些种族异质国家的移民来说，种族认同应该受到美国及其原籍国文化背景的影响。深度访谈将询问受访者对种族的态度、对他人如何看待自己所在群体的看法，以及受访者的种族分类体系。移民导致的种族认同的变化应该与受访者的社会网络和经济成果有关。

This dissertation compares the process of racial identification among first generation Dominican and Puerto Rican immigrants in New York with racial identification among these groups in their countries of origin. Latin Americans tend to see race as a continuum with many more categories than are accepted in the United States. For immigrants from these racially heterogeneous countries, racial identification should be affected by cultural contexts in both the U.S. and their countries of origin. In depth interviews will ask about attitudes toward race, the perceptions of how their group is viewed by others, and the respondents' systems of racial classification. Changes in racial identification because of immigration should be related to the respondents' social networks and economic outcomes.