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  • Residential Racial Diversity: Are Transracial Adoptive Families More Like Multiracial or White Families?

    The purpose of this article is to examine whether and how the residential racial diversity of transracially adopted children (i.e., nonwhite children adopted by white parents) varies from those of biological children in white monoracial families and biological children in mixed-race families.

  • Americans Fill Out President Obama’s Census Form: What is His Race?

    Americans Fill Out President Obama’s Census Form: What is His Race? Social Science Quarterly Published Online: 2014-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12105 Jack Citrin, Heller Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Morris Levy, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Southern California Robert P. Van Houweling, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Objective…

  • Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity

    Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity Social Science Quarterly Volume 73 Issue 3, September 1992 pages 615- James H. Dormon, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana This article traces the ethnohistory of Creoles of color, beginning with an examination of the social-historical order out of which they…

  • Backing Barack Because He’s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election

    Backing Barack Because He’s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election Social Science Quarterly Volume 92, Issue 2, June 2011 pages 423–446 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x Ray Block Jr., Assistant Professor of Political Science/Public Administration University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Objective. If racial considerations influenced the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, then how did they…

  • Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples

    Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples Social Science Quarterly (September 2004) Volume 85, Issue 3 Pages 746 – 766 DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00243.x Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity (Waters, 1990). What about children…