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  • 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).

  • America’s Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification

    America’s Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification Annual Review of Sociology Volume 30 (August 2004) pages 221–242 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110519 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Economics; Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University of California,…

  • Immigration’s Racial Complexity

    Immigration’s Racial Complexity The Washington Post Political Bookworm: Where tomorrow’s must-read political books are discovered today 2010-07-09 Steven E. Levingston Will today’s Latino and Asian immigrants become incorporated into American society like their European predecessors? Or will race remain a stumbling block to full assimilation? Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean explore these questions in their…

  • Reinventing the Color Line: Immigration and America’s New Racial/Ethnic Divide

    Reinventing the Color Line: Immigration and America’s New Racial/Ethnic Divide Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) E-ISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0024 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Contemporary nonwhite immigration from Latin America and Asia, increasing…

  • Plus ça Change? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States

    Plus ça Change? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 205-219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01595.x Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor School of Social Sciences University of California, Irvine Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor, Sociology School of Social Sciences University of California, Irvine The issue…