Race Research Variable

The next article, “Questions about Race as a Research Variable”, discusses whether or not race can be used as a research variable. The author, Diane Dirette, defines race and ethnicity. Her reasoning was based on the fact that race and ethnicity are two different concepts that are often deemed interchangeable. For this reason, the U.S. Census Bureau has two ethnic groups listed: Hispanic/Latino or non-Hispanic/Latino; however, race is generalized as white and non-white. From the 1950s-1960s, race was used as a healthcare research variable to contribute to segregation by claiming that minorities are biologically inferior to whites. As a result, their findings were inconclusive, because race is a social construct. Dirrette discussed