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  • Unmaking Race and Ethnicity: A Reader

    “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • The Electoral Consequences of Skin Color: The “Hidden” Side of Race in Politics

    The Electoral Consequences of Skin Color: The “Hidden” Side of Race in Politics Political Behavior Volume 34, Issue 1 (March 2012) pages 159-192 DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9152-7 Vesla M. Weaver, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Political Science Yale University Despite the significant role that skin color plays in material well-being and social perceptions, scholars know…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America [Eisenberg Review]

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America [Eisenberg Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 923-925 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.748214 Martin Eisenberg Department of Urban Studies Queens College, City University of New York Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla Weaver and Tract Burch. Creating a New…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…

  • Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality

    Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality In Suzanne Mettler, Joe Soss, and Jacob Hacker (eds.). Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality Russell Sage Foundation November 2007 41 pages Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard…

  • “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism

    “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University February 2010 Working Paper 68 pages Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor The Woodrow Wilson Department of…

  • Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970

    Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference Palmer House Hotel Hilton, Chicago, IL 2008-04-03 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government & Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Brenna Marea Powell Harvard University Vesla Weaver,…

  • The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States

    The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2008 Annual Meeting Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts 2008-08-28 38 pages Awarded the American Political Science Association Public Policy Section 2008 prize for her paper, co-authored with Vesla Weaver, of the University of…