Skin Tone and Perceived Discrimination: Health and Aging Beyond the Binary in NSHAP 2015.

Objectives: This paper introduces new measures of skin tone (self-reported) and perceived discrimination that are included in the third round of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP). We explain the rationale for these new measures, emphasizing, in particular, how they help researchers to conceptualize and measure the significance of race/ethnicity for health and aging beyond binary ethnoracial categories.

Method: We describe new measures of skin tone and perceived discrimination for use in NSHAP 2015.