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  • Drawing on the Pew Research Center’s 2015 Survey of Multiracial Adults, we find declining evidence of hypo- and hyperdescent at work in the United States today, some support for a dominance structure that upends conventional expectations about a Black one-drop rule, and a rising regime of co-descent. In addition, we explore how regimes of mixed-race…

  • Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States

    Using the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults, we offer a more comprehensive analysis that considers gender differences at two distinct stages: reporting multiple races in one’s ancestry and selecting multiple races to describe oneself.

  • Genetic ancestry test results shape race self-identification, Stanford researchers find

    People who have taken a genetic ancestry test are more likely to report multiple races when self-identifying on surveys, according to Stanford sociologists.

  • Measuring Race and Ancestry in the Age of Genetic Testing

    We find that people in our sample who have taken a GAT, compared with those who have not, are more likely to self-identify as multiracial and are particularly likely to select three or more races.

  • Placing Racial Classification in Context

    This article extends previous research on place-based patterns of racial categorization by linking it to sociological theory that posits subnational variation in cultural schemas and applying regression techniques that allow for spatial variation in model estimates.

  • Are you racially fluid?

    The blurring of racial lines won’t save America. Why ‘racial fluidity’ is a con

  • The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perception

    The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perception Social Problems Volume 57, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 92-113 DOI: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.92 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine In the United States, racial disparities in incarceration and their consequences are widely…

  • The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions

    The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 651, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 104-121 DOI: 10.1177/0002716213503097 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Jessica M. Kizer Department of Sociology…

  • Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest

    Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest Demography June 2015, Volume 52, Issue 3 pages 1017-1024 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-015-0394-1 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Scholars of race have stressed the importance of thinking about race…

  • Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas

    Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas Demographic Research Volume 31 Article 24 (2014-09-19) pages 735-756 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.24 Stanley Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Background: Racial inequality in the U.S. is typically…