Editing Roth 2016 (section)

==Situating and Advancing the Multidimensionality of Race==
''Racial fluidity'' is the fluctuation in one dimension of race as opposed to inconsistency across different dimensions. Used to understand ''temporal fluidity'': changes over time within the same context, and ''contextual fluidity'': changes across contexts within a fairly limited period of time. ''Temporal Fluidity'' ex. how people view their race as they age. ''Contextual Fluidity'' ex. A child being asked what race they are at school versus being asked at home. 

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Race is inconsistent, the multiple dimensions of race and on racial fluidity both point to micro-level social processes. Changes to the Racial boundary within the circle happen at both the mirco and macro scales. The micro-level is where we observe when we measure racial fluidity or an inconsistency between racial identity and observed race. 

Macro-level boundary change is arguably most related to observed race – how people are classified by others, and particularly by the most privileged groups. Ex. the White racial boundary as having expanded for the Irish or Italians.