2009: Vol. 56, Issue 3 by Mary E. Campbell
How do multiracial groups " fit " into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the Unite... more How do multiracial groups " fit " into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals explained by the Latin Americanization hypothesis (Bonilla-Silva 2002), or a hardening racial divide between blacks and all other racial groups (Gans 1999; Yancey 2006)? Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I address these questions and show that the educational outcomes of multiracial groups and individuals are not consistently explained by measures of appearance, as suggested by these theories. Although the educational outcomes of Latinos and single-race groups are significantly associated with skin color and the racial perceptions of observers, multiracial young adults' high school and college educational outcomes are not consistently related to either measure of appearance. Parental education and family income are the most important predictors of educational outcomes for multiracial respondents across different types of outcomes. The implications of these findings for racial inequality and research on multiracial groups are discussed.
Papers by Mary E. Campbell
American Journal of Botany, 2011
Microsatellite markers were developed for the medicinal plant Tripterygium (Celastraceae) to asse... more Microsatellite markers were developed for the medicinal plant Tripterygium (Celastraceae) to assess its population structure and to facilitate source tracking of plant materials used for medicinal extracts. Ten microsatellite markers were isolated and characterized in T. wilfordii using an enriched genomic library. The number of alleles per locus ranged from five to 12. Observed and expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.166 to 0.630 and 0.392 to 0.562, respectively. These markers will be useful for a variety of applications including source tracking of plant materials, resolution of taxonomic issues, and population genetics studies.
Supplemental material, SupplementalTablesFigures for Do White People See Variation in Black Skin ... more Supplemental material, SupplementalTablesFigures for Do White People See Variation in Black Skin Tones?: Reexamining a Purported Outgroup Homogeneity Effect by Lance Hannon, Verna M. Keith, Robert DeFina and Mary E. Campbell in Social Psychology Quarterly
Multiracial groups provide important leverage for understanding the future of racial health dispa... more Multiracial groups provide important leverage for understanding the future of racial health disparities in the United States and their relationship with family and neighborhood context. This research uses restricted data and employs a multi-level database, with data on individuals’ socio-demographic background, psychological well-being and health behaviors, the race and Hispanic origin of respondents and co-residents (i.e. spouses/partners), and information on neighborhood characteristics. First, we identify the specific racial backgrounds of self-identified multiracial respondents among all respondents in the restricted-access National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) by employing full (unedited) racial/ethnic information from the NHIS ethnicity and race questions for the years 2001 to 2011. Second, we explore multiracial neighborhood and family contexts and parse the relationship between these contexts and self-rated health status, using family data from the NHIS and tract level dat...
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2020
Immigrants to the United States are assigned to ethnic and racial categories that often make litt... more Immigrants to the United States are assigned to ethnic and racial categories that often make little sense in an international context or are actively resisted by new arrivals. This study uses a large, nationally representative sample to test how skin color constrains and patterns that resistance, and how individual characteristics shape identification choices. Using the 2003 New Immigrant Survey, I find that skin tone has significant relationships with ethnic and racial self-identification choices for immigrants, even after controlling for characteristics like country of origin, with higher rates of Latinx identification among light-skinned immigrants than dark-skinned respondents, and especially high rates of refusing the “standard” racial categories for those near the middle of the skin tone scale. The racial categories selected by immigrants reflect not only their region of origin, but also their education level and their age, controlling for a range of demographic predictors. I ...
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
She has experience working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on... more She has experience working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Race and Social Problems, 2020
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
interested in protozoan parasitology, neglected tropical diseases, and infectious disease epidemi... more interested in protozoan parasitology, neglected tropical diseases, and infectious disease epidemiology. Her current research interests center around disparities in healthcare access and education, diseases of poverty, and emerging zoonotic diseases. Her education research centers around the evaluation of diversity and inclusion measures at Colleges and Schools of Public Health and the development of innovative service learning curricula.
Social Science & Medicine, 2019
Specificity and Everyday Discrimination: Assessing the difficulty associated with identifying a m... more Specificity and Everyday Discrimination: Assessing the difficulty associated with identifying a main reason for discrimination among racial/ethnic minority respondents." Sociological Methods & Research.
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2019
In this era of growing immigration and debates about the U.S.-Mexico Border, the authors tackle a... more In this era of growing immigration and debates about the U.S.-Mexico Border, the authors tackle a question that is growing in importance as the Border is at the forefront of national debate: Do people (White or Latinx) who believe that they are seen as Latinx experience more community division on the basis of proximity to the Border? The authors use data from the 2015 Texas Diversity Survey to examine the experience of racialization for people living in different social environments. The authors find that Latinxs who live closer the U.S.-Mexico Border are more likely to believe that they are perceived by others as Latinx, demonstrating how racialization is contextual and variable across space. The authors show that these differences are consequential for a sense of community division: Latinxs feel more community division when they live closer to the Border and believe that strangers see them as Latinx, even after controlling for socioeconomic characteristics, gender, age, and charac...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2018
Objective Clinical research data warehouses are largely populated from information extracted from... more Objective Clinical research data warehouses are largely populated from information extracted from electronic health records (EHRs). While these data provide information about a patient’s medications, laboratory results, diagnoses, and history, her social, economic, and environmental determinants of health are also major contributing factors in readmission, morbidity, and mortality and are often absent or unstructured in the EHR. Details about a patient’s socioeconomic status may be found in the U.S. census. To facilitate researching the impacts of socioeconomic status on health outcomes, clinical and socioeconomic data must be linked in a repository in a fashion that supports seamless interrogation of these diverse data elements. This study demonstrates a method for linking clinical and location-based data and querying these data in a de-identified data warehouse using Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside. Materials and Methods Patient data were extracted from the EHR...
American Behavioral Scientist, 2016
This special issue brings together original research that advances the emerging subfield on the m... more This special issue brings together original research that advances the emerging subfield on the measurement and analysis of varying components of race. The articles provide insight into how social scientists can tease apart the multiple components of race and leverage them to better understand how race continues to divide life chances, creatively using existing and new sources of data. The articles speak to three key themes: how we can better understand the various ways that race is experienced, alternative approaches to measuring the different components of race, and the implications of race measures for understanding social inequality.
Public Library Quarterly, 2016
ABSTRACT Using the General Social Survey from 1972–2014, we examine variation in attitudes toward... more ABSTRACT Using the General Social Survey from 1972–2014, we examine variation in attitudes toward retaining controversial materials in libraries. Previously controversial topics have become much more widely accepted. We find that other controversies remain, showing how global conflicts become intertwined in local cultural controversies, and how the perceived threat from particular groups informs public concern with disseminating information from those groups. We find that more frequent library users are somewhat less likely to want to remove controversial books from the shelves, although some of these relationships are explained by variation in the respondent’s age, race, and other characteristics.
Popular press accounts of the educational success of immigrants in the United States often attrib... more Popular press accounts of the educational success of immigrants in the United States often attribute these positive outcomes to the behaviors of immigrant parents, who are described as more authoritarian and intensively focused on their children's schoolwork than native-born parents in the United States. Although children who were born outside the United States do have more pro-school attitudes than native-born youth, less research has tested whether parental behaviors actually explain this difference. Using the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS:2002), we test generational differences in the "educational commitment" of high school sophomores, comparing their academic interest and purpose. We find that, across both of these educational attitudes and regardless of national origin, first-generation youth are the most educationally committed, followed by second-generation youth and then those in the third or higher generation. These generational gaps are not explained by differences in parental behaviors, earlier measures of academic ability and expectations, perceptions of discrimination, or peer influences. However, interesting ethnic differences emerge and suggest that the familial and school context may be more important for understanding the educational commitment of Mexican-origin students than East and South Asian students. We find that, among the firstgeneration, living in the United States for a longer time is associated with less educational commitment as well. Finally, we explore the importance of these findings for future explorations of the "immigrant advantage" in educational attitudes and outcomes, comparing explanations that focus on the amount of contact with institutions in the U.S. to explanations that focus on the characteristics of the parents.
This Article examines the strength of arguments concerning the causal connection between racial s... more This Article examines the strength of arguments concerning the causal connection between racial stigma and affirmative action. In so doing, this Article reports and analyzes the results of a survey on internal stigma (feelings of dependency, inadequacy, or guilt) and external stigma (the burden of others' resentment or doubt about one's qualifications) for the Class of 2009 at seven public law schools, four of which employed race-based affirmative action policies when the Class of 2009 was admitted and three of which did not use such policies at that time. Specifically, this Article examines and presents survey findings of 1) minimal, if any, internal stigma felt by minority law students, regardless of whether their schools practiced race-based affirmative action; 2) no statistically significant difference in internal stigma between minority students at affirmative action law schools and non-affirmative action law schools; and 3) no significant impact from external stigma.
Health Services Research, 2009
Objective. This study examines two dimensions of racial segregation across hospitals, using a dis... more Objective. This study examines two dimensions of racial segregation across hospitals, using a disease for which substantial disparities have been documented.Data Sources. Black (n=32,289) and white (n=244,042) patients 67 years and older admitted for acute myocardial infarction during 2004–2005 in 105 hospital markets were identified from Medicare data. Two measures of segregation were calculated: Dissimilarity (i.e., dissimilar distribution by race across hospitals), and Isolation (i.e., racial isolation within hospitals). For each measure, markets were categorized as having low, medium, or high segregation.Study Design. The relationship of hospital segregation to residential segregation and other market characteristics was evaluated. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to evaluate disparities in the use of revascularization within 90 days by segregation level.Results. Agreement of segregation category based on Dissimilarity and Isolation was poor (κ=0.12), and the relatio...
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2010
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2013
This open access edition has been made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, thanks to the s... more This open access edition has been made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, thanks to the support of Knowledge Unlatched.
American Sociological Review, 2003
How will racial divisions in student friendship networks change as U.S. schools incorporate a gro... more How will racial divisions in student friendship networks change as U.S. schools incorporate a growing Asian and Hispanic population? Drawing on theories of race in assimilation processes and the effects of relative group size on intergroup relations, several hypotheses are developed to address this question. These hypotheses are tested using data on friendships among students in grades 7 to 12 from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Key findings are that (1) cross-race friendships including Asian and Hispanic students are more common than those between white and black students, but race and Hispanic background have significant influences on student friendships that persist over immigrant generations; (2) black or white racial identifications are strongly associated with the friendship choices of Hispanic students: {3) cross-race friendships increase with school racial diversity: and (4) own-group friend selection intensifies for students in small racial minorities in a school. The results support theories of racially segmented patterns of assimilation in primary group relations and suggest that .students in small racial minorities seek to tnaintain a friendship network including several own-race friends. Implications are discussed. A LTHOUGH statements to the court in Brown v. Board of Education proposed desegregation as a policy to increase the achievement and self-esteem of hlack children, contemporary discussions focus more on fostering improved racial relations and reducing minority exclusion as major rationales for desegregation (Wells and Crain 1994). Central to these goals is the proposition that racially desegregated schooling will tend to generate cooperative, equal-status contact across racial lines
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2009: Vol. 56, Issue 3 by Mary E. Campbell
Papers by Mary E. Campbell