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  • “IT’S LIKE WE HAVE AN ‘IN’ ALREADY”: The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans

    “IT’S LIKE WE HAVE AN ‘IN’ ALREADY”: The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Published online: 2016-12-19 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X16000357 Chandra D. L. Waring, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology University of Wisconsin, Whitewater The increasing bi/multiracial1 community in the United States has generated much literature about…

  • Latina/o Whitening? Which Latina/os Self-Classify as White and Report Being Perceived as White by Other Americans?

    Latina/o Whitening? Which Latina/os Self-Classify as White and Report Being Perceived as White by Other Americans? Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 12, Issue 01, Spring 2015 pages 119-136 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X14000241 Nicholas Vargas, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Latino Studies University of Florida Some scholars argue that Latina/os in the United States may…

  • A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency

    A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, Spring 2009 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090018 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political…

  • 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…

  • Racial ‘Boundary-policing’: Perceptions of Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro

    Racial ‘Boundary-policing’: Perceptions of Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 10 / Issue 01 / Spring 2013 pages 179-203 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X13000118 Chinyere K. Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden As people who cross racial boundaries…

  • Clearly, genealogy alone does not dictate racial identification.

    What remains perplexing is that given the history of racial mixing, the Census Bureau estimates that about 75-90% of Black Americans are ancestrally multiracial, yet even today, only 7% choose to identify as such (Davis, 2001; Lee and Bean, 2010).

  • A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century

    A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall 2012 pages 419-437 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X12000161 Jennifer Lee, Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine At the…

  • BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans

    BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 2 (2005) pages 267-285 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The use of U.S.-oriented racial categories in the 2000 decennial census conducted by…

  • Walter White and Passing

    Walter White and Passing Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 1 (2005) pages 17-27 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050034 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Walter White, the blond, blue-eyed Atlantan, was a voluntary Negro, that is, an African American who appears to be White…

  • A New Take On A Old Idea: Do We Need Multiracial Studies?

    A New Take On A Old Idea: Do We Need Multiracial Studies? Du Bois Review: Social Science Review on Race Volume 3, Issue 2 (September 2006) pages 437-447 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060280 Victor Thompson, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersery Publications about multiracial identity and the multiracial population increased significantly prior to the 2000…