Dissertation Research: Ethnic Identity Switching Among Latinos in Two Queens, NY Communities

论文研究：纽约州两个皇后区拉丁裔社区的种族身份转换

• 批准号: 0450930
• 负责人: H. Russell Bernard
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-15 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450930&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Ethnic; Identity; Switching

As the nation's ethnic diversity continues to grow, the distribution of resources, ethnic conflict, and assimilation cannot be understood in terms of neatly packaged identities in competition. Advances in communication and transportation allow immigrants to maintain ties in both their country of origin and in the countries where they settle. The great concentration of people from diverse racial, ethnic and national backgrounds characteristic of urban centers like New York City promotes the formation of inter-ethnic group networks and inter-ethnic unions. An increasing number of people report being of mixed-racial or mixed-ethnic ancestry in population surveys like the census. Taken together, these factors suggest that more people can lay claim to multiple ethnic identities. This dissertation project by a cultural anthropologist will examine how Latinos in Queens, NY negotiate between multiple ethnic identities in everyday contexts. The research builds on the proposition that an increasing number of people regularly switch from ethnicity to ethnicity in normal discourse, in an attempt to maximize their economic and political interests. Close observations of participants' verbal interactions, interviews, discourse analysis, social network assessment questionnaires, and household surveys will be used to determine the contexts under with ethnic identity switching occurs and how switching is done. While ethnic identity has long been understood by anthropologists to be a contextual phenomenon, less is known about how the process of ethnic identity switching works. The broader significance of the project, in addition to contributing to the education of a doctoral student, includes its contribution to an understanding of how people choose among ethnic identities in day-to-day contexts. The research will specifically examine language use among Spanish-bilinguals as an ethnic identity marker. The findings will have practical applications for policy makers interested in refining current methods for collecting and categorizing data on ethnic identification; and educators interested in incorporating a bilingual approach in their classrooms.

随着国家种族多样性的持续增长，资源分配、种族冲突和同化不能用竞争中整齐包装的身份来理解。通信和交通的进步使移民能够在原籍国和定居国保持联系。 纽约市等城市中心的特点是，来自不同种族、族裔和民族背景的人高度集中，这促进了族裔间群体网络和族裔间联盟的形成。越来越多的人报告说，在人口普查等人口调查中，他们的祖先是混合种族或混合民族。 这些因素加在一起表明，更多的人可以声称拥有多重种族身份。 由文化人类学家的这篇论文项目将研究如何在皇后区，纽约州的拉丁美洲人之间的谈判在日常环境中的多民族身份。 这项研究的基础是，越来越多的人在正常话语中经常从一个种族转向另一个种族，试图最大化他们的经济和政治利益。 密切观察参与者的口头互动，访谈， 本研究将使用话语分析、社会网络评估问卷和家庭调查来确定族裔身份转换发生的背景以及转换是如何进行的。 虽然种族认同长期以来一直被人类学家理解为一种背景现象，但人们对种族认同转换过程的工作原理知之甚少。该项目的更广泛的意义，除了有助于博士生的教育，包括它的贡献，以了解人们如何选择在日常背景下的族裔身份。 该研究将专门研究西班牙语双语者的语言使用作为种族身份标记。 研究结果将有实际应用的政策制定者有兴趣完善目前的方法收集和分类数据的族裔身份;和教育工作者有兴趣在他们的课堂上采用双语的方法。