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Published in final edited form as: Race Soc Probl. 2012 Apr;4(1):10.1007/s12552-012-9064-8. doi: 10.1007/s12552-012-9064-8

Table 4. Effect of Racial Appearance, Education, Social Interactions, and Controls on Identify Racially as Mexican among Mexican Americans.

	Identify Racially as Mexican

	Initial Model	Add Perceive a lot Discrimination	Add Social Interactions
Racial Appearance
Darker skin color	1.149⁺	1.151⁺	1.154⁺
Non-Hispanic parent	0.663	0.637	0.666

Education
HS and some college	0.544^*	0.547^*	0.555^*
College graduate	0.571⁺	0.570⁺	0.585⁺

General perceptions of discrimination
Perceive a lot of discrimination		1.099	1.106

Social Interactions
A lot of contact with Whites			0.933
Friends with Mexicans			1.091

Respondent indicators
Female	0.798	0.801	0.797
San Antonio	0.393^***	0.401^***	0.395^***
Age	1.021	1.021	1.021
Interviewed by phone	0.642^*	0.646^*	0.658^*

Generation status (ref: gen. 3)
Generation 1.5	0.976	0.958	0.940
Generation 2.0	1.230	1.234	1.260
Generation 2.5	1.065	1.066	1.066
Generation 4.0	1.021	1.018	1.030

Socio-economic background
Father's education	0.993	0.992	0.995
Mother's education	0.999	0.999	1.001
Income in 1965 (1000s)	0.946⁺	0.947⁺	0.947⁺
Homeownership in 1965	1.229	1.240	1.257
Number of siblings	0.952	0.953	0.954
Parent spoke Spanish to child	0.900	0.896	0.890
Married parents in 1965	1.273	1.281	1.271

Model
Pseudo R²	.045^**	0.045^**	0.046^*

Notes: Logistic regression; odds ratios presented; adjusted for 482 sibling clusters;

⁺

p<.10;

p<.05;

^**

p<.01;

^***

p<.001