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 …

Rapidly diversifying societies, rising inequalities and the increasing significance of social
differences are concurrent processes calling for a reexamination and reworking of certain …

Contemporary scholars view race as a constructed social category, not a biological fact. Yet
most empirical discrimination research treats race no differently than other individual …

Research on race and policing increasingly draws upon data collected by police officers to
estimate racial disparities in police contact. Many of these data sets, however, rely on officer …

Albert Hirschman's exit-voice paradigm provides a useful lens for analyzing the current neo-
categorical phase of gender politics in which attention has shifted from the content of the …

In the study, we engage the question of racial “fluidity” by examining patterns of ethnoracial
identification in adolescence and, importantly, shifts in ethnoracial identification between …

Objective: This article analyzes how some multiracial people—the “products” of interracial
relationships—conceptualize what counts as an interracial relationship and how they …

Researchers typically identify health disparities using self-reported race/ethnicity, a measure
identifying individuals' social and cultural affiliations. In this study, we use data from Waves …

Citizenship is a fundamental boundary in contemporary societies that entails rights, a sense
of belonging, and social status. Drawing on longitudinal census data, this article tracks …

Sexual identification is shaped by social processes that vary across multiple axes of
marginalization and social position—including gender, race/ethnicity, immigration status …