The Social and Statistical Construction of Race

We examine the social construction of race in the United States, from Reconstruction to the modern day, and show how this affects statistical differences across and within racial categories. During the Reconstruction era, people with the same light brown skin tones, recorded by the Freedmans Bank

本研究考察美国重建时期（Reconstruction Era）内种族的社会建构过程，该时期是奴隶制与吉姆·克劳种族隔离制度之间的关键历史节点。研究表明，自由民储蓄银行（Freedman's Bank，1865-1874）所记录的拥有相同细分肤色等级的人群，更易被种族化为白人（White）或穆拉托人（Mulatto）——