Table 5.

Effect of Racial Appearance, Education, Social Interactions, and Controls on Perceived as Mexican among Mexican Americans

	Perceived as Mexican
	Initial Model	Add Perceive a lot Discrimination	Add Social Interactions
Racial Appearance
Darker skin color	1.291***	1.287***	1.309***
Non-Hispanic parent	0.441*	0.434*	0.539+
Education
HS and some college	0.535*	0.525*	0.579*
College graduate	0.307***	0.309**	0.355**
General perceptions of discrimination
Perceive a lot of discrimination		0.754	0.777
Social Interactions
A lot of contact with Whites			0.514*
Friends with Mexicans			1.451***
Respondent indicators
Female	1.111	1.099	1.065
San Antonio	1.255	1.184	1.193
Age	0.971+	0.973+	0.972+
Interviewed by phone	0.669*	0.656*	0.721
Generation status (ref: gen. 3)
Generation 1.5	1.292	1.369	1.316
Generation 2.0	0.483*	0.480*	0.547
Generation 2.5	0.789	0.790	0.774
Generation 4.0	0.525**	0.531**	0.534**
Socio-economic background
Father's education	0.985	0.986	0.998
Mother's education	0.968	0.969	0.978
Income in 1965 (1000s)	0.958	0.955	0.961
Homeownership in 1965	1.207	1.172	1.224
Number of siblings	0.995	0.994	0.998
Parent spoke Spanish to child	1.148	1.161	1.146
Married parents in 1965	0.940	0.932	0.872
Model
Pseudo R2	.082***	0.084***	.114***

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

⁺p<.10;

^*p<.05;

^**p<.01;

^***p<.001