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  • Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations

    Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations SAGE Publishing 2017 488 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781506306940 Edited by: Zulema Valdez, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Beyond Black and White is a new anthology of readings that reflects the complexity of racial dynamics in the contemporary United States, where the fastest-growing…

  • 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…

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

    “…The articles by Binning, Unzueta, Huo, and Molina (2009) and by Townsend, Markus, and Bergsieker (2009) showed the positive benefits that accrue when multiracial individuals are free to claim their multiracial backgrounds. Binning et al. (2009), for example, found that multiracial students who identify multiracially demonstrate higher levels of psychological and organizational well-being than multiracial…

  • Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century

    Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century Nanzan Review of American Studies Volume 30 (2008) pages 13-31 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The United States is more racially diverse than at any point in history. Once a largely black-white society with a distinct color line…

  • The development of memory for own- and other-race faces

    The development of memory for own- and other-race faces Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 98, Issue 4 (December 2007) pages 233–242 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.004 Gail S. Goodman Department of Psychology University of California, Davis University of Oslo Liat Sayfan Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Jennifer S. Lee Department of Psychology Cabrillo College, Aptos, California…

  • 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…

  • The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America

    The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America Russell Sage Foundation May 2010 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87154-041-6 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…

  • 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…