What's behind a racial category? Uncovering heterogeneity among Asian Americans through a data-driven typology

LG Drouhot, F Garip - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of …, 2021 - rsfjournal.org
Despite emphasis on the importance of intragroup heterogeneity in much theoretically
inclined migration and race scholarship, quantitative research routinely relies on split …

Mexican Americans as a paradigm for contemporary intra-group heterogeneity

R Alba, TR Jiménez, HB Marrow - Race, Migration and Identity, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Racialization and assimilation offer alternative perspectives on the position of immigrant-
origin populations in American society. We question the adequacy of either perspective …

Immigrant identities and the shaping of a racialized American self

K Sorrell, S Khalsa, EH Ecklund, MO Emerson - Socius, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Immigration scholars largely focus on adaptation processes of immigrant groups, while race
scholars focus on structural barriers nonwhite immigrants face. By comparing nonwhite …

Racialization and Black multiplicity: Generative paradigms for understanding Black immigrants

MM Medford - Sociology Compass, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Black immigrants occupy a liminal space on the race ethnicity spectrum that defies
traditional assimilation theories. The social distancing paradigm has emerged as one of the …

The Impact of Intersecting Dimensions of Inequality and Identity on the Racial Status of Eastern African Immigrants1

KM Guenther, S Pendaz… - Sociological Forum, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we examine how immigrants from eastern Africa to the Minneapolis and St.
Paul metropolitan area understand and navigate the US color line and its implications for …

Who counts as Asian

J Lee, K Ramakrishnan - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We introduce a novel test of racial assignment that has significant implications for how racial
categories are popularly understood, even among the populations for whom they …

Latino immigrants and the US racial order: How and where do they fit in?

R Frank, IR Akresh, B Lu - American Sociological Review, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
How do Latino immigrants in the United States understand existing racial categories? And
how does the existing US racial order influence this understanding? Using data from the …

BECOMING ETHNIC OR BECOMING AMERICAN?: Reflecting on the Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility and Assimilation among the New Second Generation1

M Zhou, J Lee - Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2007 - cambridge.org
As the new second generation comes of age in the twenty-first century, it is making an
indelible imprint in cities across the country, compelling immigration scholars to turn their …

The multifaceted American experiences of the children of Asian immigrants: Lessons for segmented assimilation

M Zhou, YS Xiong - Ethnic and racial studies, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This article aims to problematize the model minority image of Asian Americans. We argue
that America's racial and class systems of stratification have shaped and, to an important …

The Contours and Sources of Ethnic Identity Choices Among Asian Americans*

P Lien, M Margaret Conway, J Wong - Social science quarterly, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. How do individuals of Asian descent in the United States identify themselves in
ethnic terms and why? The purpose of this research is to map the contours of ethnic self …