Matthew Snipp

Professor Matt Snipp's past work has shown that there is a great deal of volatility in the reporting of race by persons of American Indian ancestry. It was initially believed that this was probably an isolated phenomenon for a relatively small population. However, there have been other recent studies which reveal the presence of response variability in Asian and Hispanic ancestry groups. It has been hypothesized that much of this variability is linked to rising rates of intermarriage and growing numbers of persons who can claim a multiracial ancestry. Snipp is currently working with CPS and other Census data that were especially collected using several different variations of a question designed to elicit information about racial identification. He is particularly interested in how factors such as residence, education, and family composition are related to racial identification and especially to questions about multiracial backgrounds, and how this might change under different scenarios of immigration and intermarriage rates.

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OTHER APPOINTMENTS/ORGANIZATIONS

  • Director, 2008-2011 Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity

  • Director, Undergraduate Program 2005-2009 Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity.

  • Curriculum Committee Chair 1998-2002, 2005-2009 Native American Studies, Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Recent Chapters in Books:

  • forthcoming Forte,“The Canary in the Coal Mine: What Sociology Can Learn from American Indians.” Maximilian (ed.) Who is an Indian? Sighting and Certifying Indigeneity in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

  • forthcoming “Defining the meaning of race and ethnicity.” Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. Hazel Markus and Paula Moya (eds.) Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

  • 2007 “An Overview of American Indian Populations.” Pp. 38-48 in George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne and Chandler Jackson American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (eds.). Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

  • 2007 “Demographics and Race.” Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Pp 399-402 in John Moore (ed.) New York, Macmillan.

 

Recent Papers:

  • 2006 “Cancer Screening and Risk Factor Rates Among American Indians.” American Journal of Public Health 96: 340-350 (with Judith Swan, Nancy Breen, Linda Burhansstipanov, Delight E. Satter, William W. Davis, and Timothy McNeel).

  • 2005 “American Indian Children” Population Reference Bureau, Report on America Series.

  • 2004 “Analysis of Native American Data from the 2000 census for states and regions." National Cancer Institute.

  • 2003 “Racial Measurement in the American Census.” Annual Review of Sociology 29:563-588

Recent Presentations:

  • 2007 “On Being American Indian: some recent data” Invited presentation, University of Chicago, March 1, 2007.

  • 2007 “Multiracial data from the 2000 census and the 2004 ACS.” Invited presentation, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, February 20, 2007.

  • 2007 “Racial measurement and the United States Census.” Invited presentation, Minnesota Population Research Center, January 29, 2007.

  • 2006 “Being Multiracial in America.” Invited presentation, University of North Carolina Population Research Center, March 24, 2006.

  • 2006 “The multiracial population of the United States: data from the 2000 census and 2004 American Community Survey.” Minority Health Research Center, University of California--Los Angeles, May 25, 2006.

 

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