Gaines A D, Mcdonald P E, Wykle M L
J Immigr Health. 1999 Apr;1(2):99-113. doi: 10.1023/a:1021884406146.
"The present article joins two generally separate streams of research, gerontologic and immigration research in the United States. The paper considers data from several studies of seniors in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1990s; the 'Black and White Caregivers' and the 'Use of Services of Black and White Elderly'. These are considered not in terms of their original research goals, but rather in terms of a reflective examination of assumptions regarding the identity of the elders and caregivers that framed the two studies." The authors conclude that identifying elderly people by race tends to conceal rather than clarify ethnic and cultural differences among this population.
本文将美国老年学研究和移民研究这两个通常相互独立的研究领域结合在一起。该论文考量了20世纪90年代俄亥俄州克利夫兰市针对老年人的几项研究数据，即“黑人和白人照顾者”以及“黑人和白人老年人的服务使用情况”。对这些数据的考量并非基于其最初的研究目标，而是从反思的角度审视构成这两项研究基础的有关老年人和照顾者身份的假设。作者们得出结论，按种族来界定老年人往往会掩盖而非厘清该群体中的种族和文化差异。
