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  • Who is black, white, or mixed race? How skin color, status, and nation shape racial classification in Latin America

    Using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 America’s Barometer survey, the authors examine patterns of self-identification in four countries. National differences in the relation between skin color, socioeconomic status, and race were found.

  • Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Consumers’ Racial and Ethnic Identities

    Drawing on 100 qualitative interviews with white, black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Native Americans, the authors develop the genetic options theory to account for how genetic ancestry tests influence consumers’ ethnic and racial identities.

  • The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African-Americans

    The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African-Americans American Journal of Sociology Volume 121, Number 2 (September 2015) pages 396-444 DOI: 10.1086/682162 Ellis P. Monk Jr., Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Chicago In this study, the author uses a nationally representative survey to examine the relationship(s) between skin tone,…

  • The Superiority of the Mulatto

    The Superiority of the Mulatto American Journal of Sociology Volume 23, Number 1 (July, 1917) pages 83-106 E. B. Reuter (1880-1946) Perhaps the most significant fact regarding the Negro people in America is the degree to which the race has undergone differen- tiation during the period of contact with European civilization. From the low and…

  • 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…

  • Children in Black and Mulatto Families

    Children in Black and Mulatto Families American Journal of Sociology Volume  39, Number 1 (July 1933) pages 12-29 E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962), Professor of Sociology Fisk University Although the belief in the hereditary inferiority of the mulatto has been slowly dissipated by the accumulation of scientific knowledge, it is still echoed occasionally in scientific studies.…

  • Those who profess Christianity as the worldwide religion and yet justify the operation of a color line disprove and discredit their pretension…

    Those who profess Christianity as the worldwide religion and yet justify the operation of a color line disprove and discredit their pretension. If Christianity is to be a biological religion, it cannot be universal. The ideal of Christianity is that all of its devotees, regardless of ethnic deviation, are baptised in one spirit. Spiritual kinship…

  • The Mulatto in the United States. by Edward Byron Reuter [Review by: Kelly Miller]

    The case of the everlasting negro again intrudes itself on public attention in the form of a scientific treatise upon the mulatto in the United States. The author has brought together much interesting and valuable material bearing upon mixed-blood races in all parts of the world.

  • The Negro Race and European Civilization

    The Negro Race and European Civilization American Journal of Sociology Volume 11, Number 2 (September 1905) pages 145-167 Paul S. Reinsch  (1869-1923), Professor University of Wisconsin While in the past century populations and racial elements which had formerly been far distant from each other have been brought into intimate contact, the twentieth century will witness…

  • Human Migration and the Marginal Man

    Human Migration and the Marginal Man The American Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 6 (May 1928) pages 881-893 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Migrations, with all the incidental collision, conflicts, and fusions of peoples and of cultures which they occasion, have been accounted among the decisive forces in history.…