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  • Pew: Multiracial Americans Now Make Up 7% Of Population

    Pew: Multiracial Americans Now Make Up 7% Of Population Wisconsin Public Radio Thursday, 2015-06-11, 16:35 CDT Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Jennifer Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls According to Census data, only about 2 percent of Americans consider themselves to be multiracial, but a new report…

  • Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States

    Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States American Journal of Sociology Volume 118, Number 3, November 2012 pages 676–727 DOI: 10.1086/667722 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The authors link the literature on racial fluidity and inequality in the United States…

  • Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates

    Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates PLoS ONE: A peer-reviewed, open access journal Volume 6, Number 1 (2011-01-26) e15812 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015812 Andrew Noymer, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention Public Health University of California, Irvine Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya…

  • Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race

    Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race Morning Edition National Public Radio 2014-02-11 Steve Inskeeep, Host Shankar Vedantam, Science correspondent Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Governments, schools and companies all keep track of your race. The stats they collect are used to track the proportion of blacks and whites who graduate from school,…

  • Film Review: Multiracial Identity

    Film Review: Multiracial Identity Teaching Sociology Volume 41, Number 4 (October 2013) pages 397-399 DOI: 10.1177/0092055X13496205 Sara McDonough Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Multiracial Identity. 77 minutes. 2010. Brian Chinhema , director. Bullfrog Films. PO Box 149, Oley, PA…

  • Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

    Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research Rutgers University Press 2013-08-12 256 pages 6 figures, 8 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-6136-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-6137-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8135-6138-7 Edited by: Laura E. Gómez, Professor of Law, Sociology, and Chicano Studies University of California, Los Angeles Nancy López, Associate Professor of Sociology University of…

  • Can Losing Your Job Make You Black?

    Can Losing Your Job Make You Black? Boston Review 2013-06-03 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Most Americans think a person’s race is fairly obvious and unchanging; we know it the minute we meet him or her. Similarly, most academic research also treats race as fixed and foreordained. A person’s race comes first…

  • A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era

    A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era Demography Published Online: 2013-04-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0210-8 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid…

  • Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception

    Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception PLoS ONE Volume 6, Issue 9: e25107 Published: 2011-09-26 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025107 Jonathan B. Freemam,  Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Matthias Scheutz,…

  • Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race

    Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race Social Forces Volume 85, Issue 1 pages 57-74 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0141 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Social constructivist theories of race suggest no two measures of race will capture the same information, but the degree of “error” this creates…