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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

productive slaves faced more attractive labor market opportunities outside slavery, which elicited greater effort within slavery … in order to buy their way out of slavery. Further, this paper addresses three important and two emergent literatures: the … economics of slavery; the economics of stature; and the economics of complexion. The results reveal that height, complexion, and …

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Acting White or Acting Black : Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior

Ruebeck, Christopher - 2008

Although rates of interracial marriage are on the rise, we still know relatively little about the experiences of mixed-race adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed-race youth adopt both types of behaviors -- those...

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Colorism and African American Wealth : Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2005

Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate into significant differences in outcomes. Data on more than 15,000 households interviewed during the 1860 federal census exhibit sharp differences in wealth holdings between white, mulatto, and black households in the urban...

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because...

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The Complexion Gap : The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2002

Historians of U.S. race relations typically portray southern whites as reluctant to recognize or act favorably upon complexion-based differences within the African American community. Historians contend that mixed-race African Americans (mulattoes) received few advantages as a result of their...

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