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  • The Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone

    Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I find that the Black–White wealth gap does vary by the Black skin tone subgroup. Generally, the Black–White gap in assets is smallest when focusing on lighter-skin Black people and largest when focusing on darker-skin Black people. These differences are not only the result…

  • Skin Tone Stratification among Black Americans, 2001–2003

    Skin Tone Stratification among Black Americans, 2001–2003 Social Forces Volume 92, Number 4, June 2014 pages 1313-1337 Ellis P. Monk Jr., Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology University of Chicago In the past few decades, a dedicated collection of scholars have examined the matter of skin tone stratification within the black American population and found that…

  • Contact of Races in Brazil

    Contact of Races in Brazil Social Forces Volume 19, Number 4 (May, 1941) pages 533-538 DOI: 10.2307/2571211 Arthur Ramos University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL, as well as other American countries, was originally a land of conquests; the growth of its population has developed by the contact or confluence of European settlers with the…

  • Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race

    Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race Social Forces Volume 85, Issue 1 pages 57-74 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0141 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Social constructivist theories of race suggest no two measures of race will capture the same information, but the degree of “error” this creates…

  • Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future?

    Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future? Social Forces Volume 73, Issue 4 (1995) pages 1365-1383 DOI: 10.1093/sf/73.4.1365 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families University of Texas, Austin Americans are rapidly becoming an ethnically…

  • The Russian Creoles of Alaska as a Marginal Group

    The Russian Creoles of Alaska as a Marginal Group Social Forces Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1943) pages 204-208 Margaret Mary Wood Russell Sage College The interest in Alaska which has been aroused by its strategic importance in the present world-war conflict is bringing to the fore as worthy of attention many problems of this…

  • The Anglo-Indians: A Disorganized Marginal Group

    The Anglo-Indians: A Disorganized Marginal Group Social Forces Volume 14, Number 2 (December 1935) pages 263-268 Paul Frederick Cressey, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Wheaton College, Newton, Massachusetts FOUR centuries of European contact with India have left a biological residue of many thousand people of mixed European and Indian stock. Since 1911 this group has…

  • Memorandum Concerning the Characteristics of the Larger Mixed-Blood Racial Islands of the Eastern United States

    In many of the eastern States of this country there are small pockets of peoples who arc scattered here and there in different counties and who are complex mixtures in varying degrees of white, Indian, and Negro blood. These small local groups seem to develop especially where environmental circumstances such as forbidding swamps or inaccessible and…

  • The “Sabines”: A Study of Racial Hybrids in a Louisiana Coastal Parish

    The “Sabines”: A Study of Racial Hybrids in a Louisiana Coastal Parish Social Forces Volume 29, Number 2 (December, 1950) pages 148-154 Vernon J. Parenton Roland J. Pellegrin Read before the thirteenth annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Biloxi, Mississippi, April 15, 1950. Historically, the position of the racial and  cultural  hybrid in rural American…

  • Trends in Mate Selection in a Tri-Racial Isolate

    Trends in Mate Selection in a Tri-Racial Isolate Social Forces Volume 37, Number 3 (March 1959) pages 215-221 Thomas J. Harte Catholic University of America Read before the twenty-first annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in Asheville, North Carolina, April 11, 1958. The “Brandywine” population of Southern Maryland is a tri-racial hybrid group which…