Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration, and Economic Conditions*

Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration, and Economic Conditions

Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the probability of minority individuals ...

Racial and Ethnic Harassment in Local Communities by

Abstract: This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic harassment by assessing the relationship between the characteristics of local communities and the propensity for outsiders to be victims of racial and ethnic hostility. Using unique data for a sample of active-duty military personnel captured in the Armed Forces Equal Opportunity Survey, we find that the racial com...

Identity and Racial Harassment

Identity and Racial Harassment In a 1996 survey of U.S. military personnel, more than 65 percent experienced racially offensive behavior, and approximately one-in-ten reported threatening incidents or careerrelated racial discrimination. Perceived racial harassment is driven by social classifications that extend beyond racial group membership. While race clearly matters, there is also diversity...

Racial and Ethnic Descriptors

In response to the lack of easily retrievable clinical data to address health services and medical effectiveness questions, especially as they relate to racial/ethnic minorities, the Center for Information Technology (CIT), Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) recently sponsored a project on record linkage methodology applied to automated medical administrative datasets containing...

Racial and Ethnic Groups