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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.

  • This Is How The White Population Is Actually Changing Based On New Census Data

    Some news coverage of the latest 2020 census results may have led you to think the white population in the U.S. is shrinking or in decline.

  • 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.

  • How Not To Talk About Race And Genetics

    Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.

  • Race and Rachel Doležal: An Interview

    In June 2015, I got an email from a California radio station asking me for an interview about a person I had never heard of: Rachel Doležal. I quickly Googled her, and based on a brief news item, agreed to the interview. She seemed to be a White woman passing as Black, working as the…

  • Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health

    Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Bethesda, Maryland 2015-05-08, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research will host the Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health, on May 8, 2015, at the NIH Campus, as part of the…

  • It’s Impossible to Lie About Your Race

    It’s Impossible to Lie About Your Race The Huffington Post 2015-07-01 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University There’s an important question being left out of the furor over charges that Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter, has been “lying” about her race: How can you lie about something…

  • SCIENTIFIC RACISM REDUX? The Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea

    SCIENTIFIC RACISM REDUX? The Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2015 pages 187-199 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X1500003X Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History. New York: Penguin Press, 2014, 278 pages, ISBN…

  • Census considers new approach to asking about race – by not using the term at all

    Census considers new approach to asking about race – by not using the term at all Pew Research Center 2015-06-18 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor Possible 2020 census race/Hispanic question for online respondents, who would click to the next screen to choose more detailed sub-categories such as “Cuban” or “Chinese.” Credit: U.S. Census Bureau The Census…