Misclassification by Whom?

racial identity and perceptions by others. Using a creative research design that relies primarily on the third wave in-home inter views of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), CT indeed, the pattern is nonsignificant or only marginally significant among self-reported American Indians who are classified as White. This is a very important article. Its theoretical arguments are highly persuasive, and its empirical evidence, if corroborated under closer scrutiny, identifies a critical mechanism by which racial categorization shapes individuals' experiences. It also cau tions us from automatically assuming that racial self-identifications accurately reflect others' perceptions of individuals and from considering others' reports of race as fully objective indicators. Although C&T offer a convincing theoret ical rationale to believe that misclassification