We examine a vast, interdisciplinary, and increasingly global literature concerning skin color
and colorism, which are related to status throughout the world. The vast majority of research …

In this article, I review the social science literature on racial fluidity, the idea that race is
flexible and impermanent. I trace the ongoing evolution of racial classifications and …

This book examines how ordinary people understand stigma and discrimination, and how
they respond to such experiences. We conducted more than 400 in-depth interviews with …

Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western
countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are …

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education,
about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student …

Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America
(PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race …

Increasing numbers of people in the United States and beyond experience 'race'not as a
single, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions. This article …

It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in
education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do …

Racism has always been “more than prejudice,” but mainstream social analysts have mostly
framed race matters as organized by the logic of prejudice. In this paper, I do four things …

This paper provides a framework for understanding the ways in which social processes
produce social inequality. Specifically, we focus on a particular type of social process that …