BLURRED BORDERS FOR SOME BUT NOT “OTHERS”: RACIALIZATION, “FLEXIBLE ETHNICITY,” GENDER, AND THIRDGENERATION MEXICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY

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dc.contributor.authorVasquez-Tokos, Jessica
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-22T21:15:07Z
dc.date.available2025-01-22T21:15:07Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description27 pages
dc.description.abstractHow are the lives of middle-class third-generation Mexican Americans both racialized and gendered? Third-generation Mexican Americans in California experience a racialization process continuum that extends from “flexible ethnicity,” the ability to be considered an “insider” in different racial/ ethnic communities, to racialization as nonwhite that is enforced through the deployment of negative stereotypes. Using interview data, the author finds that women are afforded more “flexible ethnicity” than men. Accordingly, men are more rigorously racialized than women. Women are racialized through exoticization, whereas men are racialized as threats to safety. Lighterskinned individuals escaped consistent racialization. These findings have consequences for the incorporation possibilities of later-generation Mexican Americans, as women and light-skinned (often multiracial) individuals are more frequently granted “flexible ethnicity” and less strongly racialized than men and dark-skinned (often monoracial) individuals. Even among the structurally assimilated, contemporary racial and gender hierarchies limit the voluntary quality of ethnicity among third-generation Mexican Americans.
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5948-4244
dc.identifier.uriDOI: 10.1525/sop.2010.53.1.45.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/30349
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSociological Perspectives
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC 4.0-US
dc.subjectMexican American, race, Latino, Latina, gender, racialization, third generation, identity, assimilation
dc.titleBLURRED BORDERS FOR SOME BUT NOT “OTHERS”: RACIALIZATION, “FLEXIBLE ETHNICITY,” GENDER, AND THIRDGENERATION MEXICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY
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