Mixed Race Studies

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  • How States Make Race: New Evidence from Brazil

    In this article, we ask whether the Brazilian state’s policy turnabout has affected racial subjectivities on the ground, specifically toward mirroring the categories used by the state.

  • Racial Intermarriage in the Americas

    We propose a theory of intergenerational mixture and intermarriage and discuss implications for the role of preferences versus structure, universalism and education, and mulato escape-hatch theory.

  • Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege?

    Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege? Sociological Science 2016-03-18 Lance Hannon, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania We replicate and reexamine Saperstein and Penner’s prominent 2010 study which asks whether incarceration changes the probability that an individual will be seen as black or…

  • Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama’s Race and Voting Intention in 2008

      Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama’s Race and Voting Intention in 2008 Sociological Science Volume 1, March 2014 (2014-04-17) pages 70-80 DOI: 10.15195/v1.a6 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut David Weakliem, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008…