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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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dPhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine
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    • IMMIGRATION, DIVERSITY, AND HYPER-SELECTIVITY
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