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Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race

Van C. Tran, Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian, Jess Lee
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 188-209; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.09
Van C. Tran
aAssistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University
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Jennifer Lee
bProfessor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University
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Oshin Khachikian
cPhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine
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Jess Lee
dPhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine
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vol. 4 no. 5 188-209
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.09

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2377-8253
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  • Published online August 1, 2018.

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© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Tran, Van C., Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian, and Jess Lee. 2018. “Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(5): 188–209. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.09. Direct correspondence to: Van C. Tran at vantran@columbia.edu, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, 607 Knox Hall, 606 W. 122nd St., New York, NY 10027. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Van C. Trana,
  2. Jennifer Leeb,
  3. Oshin Khachikianc and
  4. Jess Leed
  1. aAssistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University
  2. bProfessor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University
  3. cPhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine
  4. dsup>PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine
  1. Corresponding author:
    Van C. Tran, (vantran{at}columbia.edu)
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    • IMMIGRATION, DIVERSITY, AND HYPER-SELECTIVITY
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