RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences FD Russell Sage Foundation SP 188 OP 209 DO 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.09 VO 4 IS 5 A1 Van C. Tran A1 Jennifer Lee A1 Oshin Khachikian A1 Jess Lee YR 2018 UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/5/188.abstract AB Recent immigrants to the United States are diverse with regard to selectivity. Hyper-selectivity refers to a dual positive selectivity in which immigrants are more likely to have graduated from college than nonmigrants in sending countries and the host population in the United States. This article addresses two questions. First, how does hyper-selectivity affect second-generation educational outcomes? Second, how does second-generation mobility change the cognitive construction of racial categories? It shows how hyper-selectivity among Chinese immigrants results in positive second-generation educational outcomes and racial mobility for Asian Americans. It also raises the question of whether hyper-selectivity operates similarly for non-Asian groups. While there is a second-generation advantage among hyper-selected groups, hyper-selectivity has not changed the cognitive construction of race for blacks and Latinos as it has for Asians.