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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…

  • Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination, Tanya Katerí Hernández

    “Multiracials and Civil Rights” is a jewel. Relatively brief and always engaging, it presents a well-defined and well-motivated inquiry that simultaneously manages to speak to a much broader issue of deep importance.

  • NYU Guesses Racial, Ethnic Identity of Some Employees

    Because NYU receives federal funding, the university’s office of human resources is required to guess the racial and ethnic identities of employees who do not self-report that information.

  • And you thought we had moved beyond all that: biological race returns to the social sciences

    And you thought we had moved beyond all that: biological race returns to the social sciences Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1676-1685 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.931992 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Recently, sociologists have argued in high-profile journals that racial categories…

  • “Everyone Knows It’s a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race

    “Everyone Knows It’s a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race Sociological Focus Volume 40, Issue 4, 2007 pages 436-454 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2007.10571319 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not…

  • Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective

    Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University A native New Yorker, Ann Morning is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about…

  • Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans

    Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans New York University 2009-10-16 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology, discusses race-based medications.

  • Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations

    Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations Newsroom, News Release: CB13-R.30 United States Census Bureau 2013-06-26 Public Information Office, Phone: 301-763-3030 Note from Steven F. Riley: Ann Morning is the author of book The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press,…

  • Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century

    Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Social Forces Volume 87, Number 3, 2009 Pages: 1167-1192 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0169 Ann J. Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York Univeristy Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that…

  • The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates

    The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2000-05-23 vol. 97 no. 11 pages 6230-6235 Joshua R. Goldstein Ann J. Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in…