The Color Gradient of Economic Opportunity: Implications of Skin Tone Labor Market Segmentation for Puerto Ricans in the United States.

Literature suggests that skin tone segmentation is a salient characteristic of intergroup economic inequality in the United States. Yet empirical investigations of this social phenomenon and its impact on labor market outcomes for Puerto Ricans remain limited. This article asserts that despite the s...

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Publicado en:Centro Journal Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 47 - 72
Autor principal: VISSER, M. ANNE
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Fall2019
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        affil: Associate Professor of Community and Regional Development in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis
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        Labor market
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        Outcome assessment (Social services)
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        colorism
        economic inequality
        labor market discrimination
        racial inequality
      ab: Literature suggests that skin tone segmentation is a salient characteristic of intergroup economic inequality in the United States. Yet empirical investigations of this social phenomenon and its impact on labor market outcomes for Puerto Ricans remain limited. This article asserts that despite the salience of race as a powerful force shaping outcomes for Puerto Ricans in the US, colorism presents a new challenge for scholarship. The article analyzes a recent study on skin tone labor market segmentation in the US and highlights the importance of the findings related to Puerto Ricans. Three significant implications for research related to the intersections of race, socioeconomic opportunity, and Puerto Ricans are presented. The article concludes with a proposed reorientation of the general perspectives that have guided research in this area of Puerto Rican Studies.
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