Preferred racial name

racname

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question Which would you most like to be called, "Black", "Negro", "Colored", or "Afro- American", or does it make any difference?

Values

• 1 black

• 2 negro

• 3 colored

• 4 afro-american

• 8 makes no difference

• NA(d) don't know / NA(i) iap / NA(j) I don't have a job / NA(m) dk, na, iap / NA(n) no answer / NA(p) not imputable / NA(r) refused / NA(s) skipped on web / NA(u) uncodeable / NA(x) not available in this release / NA(y) not available in this year / NA(z) see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

year	ballots	availability
1982	-	full

Link at the GSS

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for racname.

See also

Other Core: busing, busing10, color, racchurh, rachaf, rachisch, racjob, racmost, racpres