Hye Jee Kim

“You’re Supposed to Say White”: Epistemic Ambiguity and Ethnoracial Classification - Hye Jee Kim, Aliya Saperstein, 2025 Quantitative analyses of inequality typically take ethnoracial classification for granted without considering how such data come to be. We argue that criteria f...

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Shows first three rows of Table 3, titled "Examples of Similar Responses with Discrepant Race/Ethnicity Coding" from Kim & Saperstein (2025): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23326492251386475?utm_source=researchgate.net&medium=article

New article: I theorize the role of "epistemic ambiguity" in U.S. ethnoracial data with coauthor Aliya Saperstein. We find interviewers & respondents negotiate uncertainty about who has authority to determine someone’s race, producing inconsistency in how similar responses are quantified.