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In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics From the Global South Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Diana M. Barrero Jaramillo
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Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Amber R. Crowell
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Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Christina Ong, Vivian Shaw
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Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Courtney Boen
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No Politics But Class Politics Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 John Arena
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Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jessica Stallone
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“Take It to the Lord”: Religion and Responses to Racial Discrimination in the Workplace Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Rachel C. Schneider, Bianca Mabute-Louie, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Denise Daniels
Drawing on in-depth interview data from the nationally representative Faith at Work: An Empirical Study, this article contributes to understanding the role of religion in shaping interpretations of and responses to racial discrimination in the workplace. Specifically, it shows how Christians of different racial groups understand the relevance of their faith in coping with perceived racial discrimination
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Assessing the Impact of Cannabis Decriminalization on Racial Disparities in Chicago’s Cannabis Possession Arrests Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Danielle Wallace, Shytierra Gaston, John Eason, Eric Sevell
Black and Hispanic neighborhoods have suffered the most severe consequences of the “war on drugs.” As the war on drugs waned, cannabis legalization/decriminalization efforts increased across America. A prime example of decriminalization occurred in August of 2012 as the City of Chicago introduced a new law providing officers with option to ticket, rather than arrest, individuals caught in possession
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Some Reflections on the Promise and Limits of ‘Getting King right’ in the Age of Polarization Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jared Loggins
The following is a reflection on the limits and possibilities of Hajar Yazdiha’s empirical approach to adjudicating misreadings of Dr. King’s ideas.
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Different but Somewhat Similar: Panethnicity, Group Boundaries, and Dating Preferences among Asian and Latino College Students Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Cynthia Feliciano, Cilka Mayumi Hijara
Few studies of romantic unions focus on interethnic preferences among Asians and Latinos to discern the salience of panethnicity in dating. Using unique mixed-methods data, which disaggregates the ethnic identity of respondents and their preferred partners, we examine patterns of panethnic and non-panethnic dating choices among Asian and Latino college students and their explanations for their preferences
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Teaching Race after the Genome: An Approach to Challenging Biological Understandings of Race in the Classroom Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Luis A. Romero, Amina Zarrugh
As a billion-dollar industry with millions of consumers, DNA-based ancestry testing has become a highly sought out tool for people seeking knowledge of their ancestry and, recently, their family he...
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Making Sense of Husserlian Phenomenological Philosophy in Empirical Research Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Ebenezer Cudjoe
Phenomenological philosophy is esoteric. Therefore, it is not surprising that most empirical studies adopting a phenomenological approach do not acknowledge or engage with key phenomenological conc...
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Jonathan Edwards’s Affective Anthropology Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Kyle Strobel
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is often utilized in modern philosophical and psychological research as the theologian of affect. While affection is, undoubtedly, at the heart of his theological enter...
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Examining the dual role among adolescent mothers of pre-tertiary school students in Ghana Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Issahaku Alhassan, Abiba Asoma, Hilda Ofori Donkoh
The study set out to give an in-depth analysis of the experiences of adolescent student mothers studying at the pre-tertiary level. Specifically, it examined how they balance caring for the baby wh...
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Extensive viewing as additional input for foreign language vocabulary learning: A longitudinal study in secondary school Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Ferran Gesa, Imma Miralpeix
This study presents a teaching intervention to maximize the learning of a set of target words (TW) in learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in a secondary school by means of intentional v...
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Security Predicament of Syrian Refugees Through Gender Lens in Line with EU–Turkey Joint Action Plan 2015 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Rippy Das, Kabindra Sharma
War has numerous repercussions for each gender. In the instances of war-induced displacement, both genders are usually subject to intensive risks in their journey as refugees, from reaching destine...
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Reading, Writing, and Harassment: White–Latinx Test Score Disparities on the U.S.–Mexico Border Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Peggy Sue Carris
The U.S.–Mexico Border region is typified by enhanced immigration enforcement and legal violence, which are known to reduce the educational achievement of Latinx children and youth. Using data from...
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“Why Can’t We Have Some Kind of Unity?” Cultural Contention Amongst Puerto Rican and Black Residents in Southern Suburbia Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Stephanie A. Dhuman
This study examines Puerto Rican-Black intergroup relations in Poinciana, Florida, a new immigrant destination in the suburban south led by the country’s largest homeowners association. Drawing on ...
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Beyond the Positivism/Non-Positivism Binary as a Step Toward Inclusive Sociology Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Vernon Headley, Annie Jones, Shannon K. Carter
This article contributes to a movement to interrogate the history and foundation of sociology. The current hegemonic narrative credits a few European men for establishing sociology as a mechanism f...
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The Informal Safety Net: Social Network Activation among Hispanic Immigrants during COVID-19 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Nicholas C. Smith, Caroline V. Brooks, Emily A. Ekl, Melissa J. García, Denise Ambriz, Gerardo Maupomé, Brea L. Perry
During times of crisis, individuals may activate members of their social networks to fulfill critical support functions. However, factors that may facilitate or inhibit successful network activatio...
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What’s Race Got to Do With It? Disrupting Whiteness in Cultural Capital Research Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Bedelia Nicola Richards, Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Susan A. Dumais, Jennifer C. Mueller, Patricia Sánchez-Connally, Derron Wallace
In this essay, we argue that Whiteness is intrinsic to Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital, yet it remains unmarked within U.S.-based sociology of education research. As a result, these studies ...
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Race over Religion: Christian Nationalism and Perceived Threats to National Unity Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead, Joshua B. Grubbs
Building on the insight that American religion is fundamentally “raced” and “complex,” we theorize American religion is so deeply racialized that seemingly “race-neutral” religious claims about nat...
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“Asians Are the Least Troublemaker”: Navigating Racial In-betweenness in Korean American Community-based Spaces Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Eujin Park
While Asian Americans have long been positioned as a deserving and productive racial foil to problematic and unworthy Black and Latinx communities, in recent years, they have been more frequently p...
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Anti-Muslim Surveillance: Canadian Muslims’ Experiences with CSIS Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Baljit Nagra, Paula Maurutto
The targeting of Muslim communities through “the War on Terror” has given rise to a variety of schemes and tactics informed by Islamophobia and racializing narratives. Yet, there are few studies ex...
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The Rise of Asian Ethnoburbs: A Case of Self-Segregation? Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Samuel Kye
The past several decades have seen the rise of the Asian “ethnoburb”—communities retaining a disproportionate Asian presence in middle-class and suburban settings. Recent explanations have suggeste...
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Evaluating and Improving Department Racial Climate through Action Research Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Daanika Gordon, Lauren Pollak, Sophia Costa, Olivia Ting, Nicole Setow
This essay describes a learning experience that utilized participatory action research to improve the racial climate of a sociology department at a predominantly White institution. Through systemat...
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Unspoiling Identity: An Intersectional Expansion of Stigma Response Strategies Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Terrell J. A. Winder
Sociological research has documented the various strategies employed by members of stigmatized populations to mitigate the negative social effects of these identities in everyday life. Furthermore,...
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Inequality among the Disadvantaged? Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Earnings among Young Men and Women without a College Education Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Byeongdon Oh, Daniel Mackin Freeman, Dara Shifrer
Despite the rapid expansion of higher education, many young adults still enter the labor market without a college education. However, little research has focused on racial/ethnic earnings disadvant...
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Organizational Directives and the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in U.S. Public Accommodations Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Reginald A. Byron
Public accommodations have been key sites of racial inequality in the United States for well over a century. Relative to employment and housing, however, systematic analyses of discrimination in pu...
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Paradoxical Politics? Partisan Politics, Ethnoracial Ideologies, and the Assimilated Consciousnesses of Latinx Republicans Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Roger Sargent Cadena, Jr.
Because of the Republican Party’s racist rhetoric, Latinx Republicans are considered paradoxes as their partisanship contradict perceptions of Latinxs’ sociopolitical interests. Methodologically de...
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Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Black Women’s Experiences with Gendered Racial Microaggressions on a White Campus Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Veronica A. Newton
This study focuses on the gendered racial microaggressions that Black undergraduate women experience while attending a historically predominately white university. Expanding from the racial microag...
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The Politics of School Rezoning in the “Cradle of a Nation”: Racial Segregation, Settler Colonialism, and Private Property in Williamsburg, Virginia Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Amy Quark, Kayla Aaron
Rezoning public school attendance boundaries offers important possibilities for promoting school integration; however, it tends to generate contentious debates, often with white, middle-class paren...
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A Black Feminist Analysis of Patient Provider Concordance in Sexual Health Care Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Jeannette Wade, Helyne Frederick, Sharon Parker, Briana Wiley, Hannah Dillon, Dorrian Wilson, Kwani Taylor
Racial disparities in gynecological health have persisted over time. Interestingly, there is a dearth of research that centers Black women’s experiences with gynecologists and even less research th...
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Race Lessons: The Role of Place in Shaping Black Parents’ Racial Learning and Educational Engagement in a Predominantly White Suburb Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Linn Posey-Maddox
While a large body of literature examines Black parents’ racial socialization, few studies have employed a sociological lens to explore parents’ own racial learning and how it relates to the implic...
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Resisting Racist Discourses with Research Methods, Active Learning, and Storytelling Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Maria D. Dueñas, Amber R. Crowell
This article contributes to building anti-racist teaching resources in the scholarship of teaching and learning in sociology. We developed an active learning-based project in which students conduct...
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Who Should Be Provided with Pathways toward Citizenship? White and Black Attitudes toward Undocumented Immigrants Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Alicia Sheares
Existing studies on attitudes towards immigrants center White public opinion and do not account for the diversity within the immigrant population. I seek to fill these gaps by testing how an undocu...
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Differential Racialization and Police Interactions among Young Adults of Asian Descent Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Darwin A. Baluran
This qualitative study examined how inclusion or exclusion from the boundaries of “Asian-ness” shaped how young adults of Asian origin experienced and navigated police encounters. Respondents’ acco...
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Racialized Tensions and Affinities: Puerto Rican “Apprentices” and the Policing of Female Masculinity Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Cristina Silva
The Great Migration of African Americans and La Gran Migración of Puerto Ricans enabled socio-political affinities and tensions to develop in reaction to racial formations in spaces that became Bla...
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Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Neda Maghbouleh
How have sociologists engaged the late philosopher Charles Mills’ landmark The Racial Contract (1997) in the twenty-five years since its publication? I first synthesize and periodize the corpus of ...
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The Racial Contract: Challenging White Supremacy in Sociological Theories and Providing a Global Theory for Race Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Saher Selod
In The Racial Contract Charles Mills argues that the social contract is an epistemological theory that is steeped in white supremacy. I do two things in this essay. First, I use my personal experie...
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Critical Race Structuralism and Charles Mills’ Racial Contract: Pedagogical Practices for Twenty-first-century Educators Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Greg Wiggan, Annette Teasdell, Tierra Parsons
At the nexus of legislation and education lies a vigorous debate regarding teaching about racial and ethnic relations in U.S. schools. Applying critical race structuralism (CRS), a new contribution...
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Race-shifting in the United States: Latinxs, Skin Tone, and Ethnoracial Alignments Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Yasmiyn Irizarry, Ellis P. Monk, Jr., Ryon J. Cobb
In the study, we engage the question of racial “fluidity” by examining patterns of ethnoracial identification in adolescence and, importantly, shifts in ethnoracial identification between adolescence and adulthood using two waves of data from a nationally representative, longitudinal study of adolescents who were in Grades 7 to 12 during the 1994 to 1995 school year. Our theoretical framework draws
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“Imagine an Ignorance That Fights Back”: Honoring Charles Mills, Our Inheritance and Charge Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Jennifer C. Mueller
Critical race scholars lost a true comrade with the passing of renowned philosopher, Charles Wade Mills, on September 20, 2021. Along with his larger corpus, Mills’ landmark text, The Racial Contract, remains a beacon to scholar-activists across many disciplines, sociology included. Here, I reflect personally and sociologically on our inheritance from Mills’ incredible legacy. Beyond core concepts
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The Spirit of Critical Race Theory Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Glenn E. Bracey, II
An underappreciated aspect of critical race theory (CRT) is its analysis of the intersection of race, law, religion, and spirituality. These topics are of concern to critical race theorists because a complete critique of U.S. law must account for how religion is embedded in the nation’s founding documents and subsequent jurisprudence. Recently, leading scholars have called for a theory that accounts
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Racialized Organizations in Racialized Space: How Socio-spatial Divisions Activate Symbolic Boundaries in a Charter School and a Public School Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Hajar Yazdiha
Much research documents the systems of racism that undergird the rise of school choice policies and charter schools, racialized organizations that reproduce racial logics. While school choice policy gets enacted at the structural level to enable the formation of charter schools, policy also interacts with a localized neighborhood context where space must be allocated to the charter school. As race
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“Even Being a Citizen Is Not a Privilege Here”: Undocumented Latinx Immigrant Youth and Perceptions of Racialized Citizenship Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Sophia Rodriguez, Eric Macias
This three-year multi-site ethnographic study centers undocumented high school youth’s (N = 53) perspectives on citizenship. Challenging legal conceptions of citizenship, the article advances the notion of racialized citizenship, which is grounded in youth experiences and argues that deeper racial meanings and hierarchies undergird categories of citizenship. By highlighting a nuanced context of reception
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Interventions in Intersectionality: Exploring Fantastical World-building to Investigate Feminist and Anti-racist Strategies Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Samantha Eddy
This article explores the asymmetrical treatment of race and gender, critiquing the conflation of these categories under the intersectional concept of “identity.” I conducted a three-year ethnography of the “live action role play” (LARP) community to explore this asymmetry. I found that Live Action Role Players (LARPers) consciously abandoned gender roles but were deeply invested in creating racial
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Is There a Bamboo Ceiling? The Asian-White Gap in Managerial Attainment for College-Educated Workers Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Di Shao
While public perceptions allege the existence of a “bamboo ceiling,” that is, a disadvantage in managerial attainment experienced by Asian workers, academic research on this question is relatively scarce and provides inconsistent findings. This study proposes that the opportunity of achieving managerial positions varies not only between white and Asian workers, but also across Asian subgroups defined
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“Merciless Indian Savages”: Deconstructing Anti-Indigenous Framing Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Ried E. Mackay, Joe Feagin
In this article, we identify and develop the specific anti-Indigenous subframe of the long dominant larger white racial frame. Using sociological concepts of systemic racial oppression, we show how the anti-Indigenous subframe co-naturalizes race concepts and specific racist language, embedding a deep and lasting negative framing of Native Americans in the U.S. society. We utilize the Google Ngram
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(Un) Just Deserts: Examining Resource Deserts and the Continued Significance of Racism on Health in the Urban South Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Lacee A. Satcher
With concepts like structural racism and social determinants of health currently trending in both academic and public discourse, examining the health consequences of legacies of racism in the built environment is increasingly timely. Resource scarcity in neighborhoods and the emergence of resource deserts in urban cities are critical sources of urban social inequality. As research shows how the sociodemographic
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Appearance, Parentage, and Paradox: The White Privilege of Bi/Multiracial Americans with White Ancestry Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Chandra D. L. Waring
The growth of the bi/multiracial American population has inspired a corresponding surge in scholarship on this historically understudied racial group. Simultaneously, a much-needed mainstream discussion has emerged about the unearned, often invisible privileges of being white in American society. In this article, I enrich the literature in both areas by elucidating how some bi/multiracial Americans
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The Racial Elevator Speech: How Multiracial Individuals Respond to Racial Identity Inquiries Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Monica Heilman
Scholars have increasingly acknowledged that race is composed of multiple dimensions and that these dimensions do not always match. For example, an individual’s sense of personal identity can differ from the race they mark on surveys and/or how others interpret their racial identity based on appearance. The potential for racial mismatch is even greater for multiracial individuals, who are commonly
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Media Framing of COVID-19 Racial Disparities: Lessons from Memphis, Tennessee Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Jennifer Turchi, Courtnee Melton-Fant
COVID-19 has impacted millions of people in the United States, but Black individuals have been disproportionately burdened by this disease. Researchers find that individuals have used news media, especially local news media, to inform themselves about the coronavirus pandemic. Because of this, media has power in shaping the way we see and understand unfolding events related to COVID-19. Using framing
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Examining the Experiences of Racialized and Indigenous Graduate Students as Emerging Researchers Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Augustine S. J. Park, Jasmeet Bahia
In this article, we explore the experiences of graduate students as researchers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in the social sciences and humanities in Canada. This analysis is based on 22 semistructured qualitative interviews with BIPOC students and explores their experiences using critical race theory and an analysis of color-blind racism. The participants in our study narrate
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Assessing and Extending Colorblind Racism Theory Using National Survey Data Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Amber M. Hamilton,Douglas Hartmann,Ryan Larson
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s work on colorblind racism has become a prominent theoretical framework for analyzing racial attitudes, ideologies, and discourses in the contemporary United States. However, the scholarship has yet to produce an empirically rigorous, quantitative assessment of colorblind racism to document the theory’s generalizability and assess it as a theory of racial attitudes. In this article
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“I Just Couldn’t Relate to That Asian American Narrative”: How Southeast Asian Americans Reconsider Panethnicity Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Liann Yamashita
Asian American panethnicity was conceptualized to unify ethnic groups and represent their sociopolitical interests. Increasingly however, scholars have questioned whether panethnicity accurately reflects the diversity of different ethnic groups’ experiences and identities. In mainstream culture, “Asian American” has become synonymous with East Asian Americans and stereotypes—albeit biased ones—of their
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The Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Matthew Ward
Scholars seeking to understand the consequences of historical regimes of violence and social control frequently turn their attention to lynching and its legacy. More recently, however, a small but growing body of scholarship across the social sciences has expanded the scope of this work by additionally focusing on slavery and, most notably, its enduring negative consequences for African-Americans in
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Guess Who: Experiential Learning and Reflexivity in Race and Ethnicity Courses Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Alicia L. Brunson, Chris Benedict Cartright
Experiential learning activities foster reflection and reflexivity which facilitate thinking critically about race and racism. In a previous study, we used a game to assess students’ race-talk and evaluate the impact of Race and Ethnicity (R&E) courses on racial ideologies. These activities provided opportunities for experiential learning and reflexivity. Instructors of R&E courses can use similar
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Introducing the New Book Review Section Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Freeden Blume Oeur
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Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (IF 3.221) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Laurel R. Davis-Delano