How (Some) Hispanics Become White: Phenotype, Racial Prejudice, and Policy Consequences in U.S. Immigrant Assimilation

• In Event: Racial Attitudes

Brief Overview

Hispanics with lighter, European-looking, phenotypes identify less as Hispanic and more as White and exhibit the policy preferences of Whites. They also exhibit greater anti-Black prejudice than do darker phenotype Hispanics.

Author

• Eduardo Salinas, University of Illinois at Chicago