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What’s Behind a Racial Category? Uncovering Heterogeneity Among Asian Americans Through a Data-Driven Typology

Lucas G. Drouhot, Filiz Garip
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2021, 7 (2) 22-45; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.2.02
Lucas G. Drouhot
aPostdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
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bProfessor of sociology at Princeton University, United States
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vol. 7 no. 2 22-45
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.2.02

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2377-8253
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  • Published online April 30, 2021.

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© 2021 Russell Sage Foundation. Drouhot, Lucas G., and Filiz Garip. 2021. “What’s Behind a Racial Category? Uncovering Heterogeneity Among Asian Americans Through a Data-Driven Typology.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7(2): 22–45. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2021.7.2.02. We thank Jennifer Lee, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Sunmin Kim, and other participants at the Russell Sage Foundation workshop on heterogeneity and diversity among Asian Americans held in New York City on December 6, 2019. We also thank Juhwan Seo, Linda Zhao, and RSF reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript and thank Margherita Cusmano for her helpful research assistance. Direct correspondence to: Lucas G. Drouhot at drouhot@mmg.mpg.de, MPI-MMG, 11-Hermann-Föge Weg, 37073 Göttingen, Germany. 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. Lucas G. Drouhota and
  2. Filiz Garipb
  1. aPostdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
  2. bProfessor of sociology at Princeton University, United States
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    Lucas G. Drouhot, (drouhot{at}mmg.mpg.de)
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    • HETEROGENEITY AS A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUE IN MIGRATION RESEARCH
    • TENSIONS ACROSS RESEARCH COMMUNITIES
    • MOTIVATION OF THIS STUDY
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    • DISCUSSION: ASIAN AMERICANS—A DIVERSE GROUP BETWEEN ASSIMILATION AND RACIALIZATION
    • APPENDIX: TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS WITH STOCHASTIC ASSIGNMENT
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