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  • The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

    The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9962 September 2003 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity…

  • Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South

    Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South Journal of Population Economics Volume 20, Number 3 (July 2007) pages 599-620 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0111-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate…

  • Endogenous Race in Brazil: Affirmative Action and the Construction of Racial Identity among Young Adults

    Endogenous Race in Brazil: Affirmative Action and the Construction of Racial Identity among Young Adults Working Paper 2010-01-10 Andrew M. Francis, Professor of Economics Emory University Maria Tannuri-Pianto, Professor of Economics University of Brasilia Brazil is not only characterized by racial diversity but also by socioeconomic inequality. This complexity, plus the recent adoption of racial…

  • The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America

    The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America Russell Sage Foundation May 2010 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87154-041-6 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Economics; Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University of…

  • Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power

    Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power Cato Journal Volume 29, Number 3 (Fall 2009) Pages 417-453 Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow and Managing Editor, Cato Unbound Cato Institute Economics tells us that racial discrimination is expensive. Yet social psychology suggests that humans nonetheless tend to mistrust those whom they identify as outsiders.…

  • Multiracial Americans and Social Class: The Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity

    As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. “Multiracial Americans and Social Class” is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in a growing market.

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American…

  • Stem Cell Donor Matching for Patients of Mixed Race

    Stem Cell Donor Matching for Patients of Mixed Race 2011-04-04 21 pages Ted Bergstrom, Aaron and Cherie Raznick Chair of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Rod Garratt, Professor of Econommics University of California, Santa Barbara Damien Sheehan-Connor, Assistant Professor of Economics Wesleyan University The plight of multiracial leukemia patients who are unable to find…

  • Family Values in the Old South

    Family Values in the Old South University Press of Florida 2010-01-24 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3418-8 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3418-3 Edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Anya Jabour, Professor of History University of Montana This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South…

  • Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line

    “Making Multiracials” tells the story of the social movement that emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s. Organizations for interracial families and mixed race people—groups once loosely organized and only partially aware of each other—proliferated.