Table 6.
Effect of Racial Appearance, Education, Social Interactions, and Controls on Experience Stereotyping among Mexican Americans
| Experience Stereotyping | |||
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| Initial Model | Add Perceive a lot Discrimination | Add Social Interactions | |
| Racial Appearance | |||
| Darker skin color | 1.075 | 1.085 | 1.097 |
| Non-Hispanic parent | 0.651 | 0.662 | 0.650 |
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| Education | |||
| HS and some college | 2.017*** | 2.101** | 1.764* |
| College graduate | 2.399*** | 2.387** | 1.990* |
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| General perceptions of discrimination | |||
| Perceive a lot of discrimination | 1.712** | 1.712** | |
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| Social Interactions | |||
| A lot of contact with Whites | 2.488** | ||
| Friends with Mexicans | 1.058 | ||
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| Respondent indicators | |||
| Female | 0.843 | 0.863 | 0.877 |
| San Antonio | 0.794 | 0.882 | 0.848 |
| Age | 1.005 | 1.002 | 0.999 |
| Interviewed by phone | 0.701+ | 0.719+ | 0.702+ |
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| Generation status (ref: gen. 3) | |||
| Generation 1.5 | 2.092+ | 1.921 | 1.962 |
| Generation 2.0 | 0.852 | 0.870 | 0.835 |
| Generation 2.5 | 0.890 | 0.893 | 0.948 |
| Generation 4.0 | 0.955 | 0.939 | 0.959 |
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| Socio-economic background | |||
| Father's education | 1.008 | 1.004 | 1.000 |
| Mother's education | 1.019 | 1.018 | 1.012 |
| Income in 1965 (1000s) | 1.010 | 1.013 | 1.004 |
| Homeownership in 1965 | 0.693+ | 0.732 | 0.739 |
| Number of siblings | 0.973 | 0.974 | 0.973 |
| Parent spoke Spanish to child | 0.949 | 0.924 | 0.879 |
| Married parents in 1965 | 0.910 | 0.931 | 0.937 |
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| Model | |||
| Pseudo R2 | 0.033* | 0.043** | 0.054*** |
Notes: Logistic regression; odds ratios presented; adjusted for 482 sibling clusters;
+
p<.10;
*
p<.05;
**
p<.01;
***
p<.001