SELECTED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS​

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Articles

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“Beyond Color-Blind and Color-Conscious: Approaches to Racial Socialization among Parents of Transracially Adopted Children.”
Family Relations 68(2): 260-274. (co-authored with Caitlin Killian, 2019)
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“‘We Didn’t Even Think about Domestic Adoption’:  Race and Other Factors Shaping Parents’ Decisions to Adopt Abroad.”
Sociological Perspectives 58(4): 570-594. (co-authored with Caitlin Killian, 2015)
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“Discovering Race in a ‘Post-Racial’ World:  Teaching Race through Primetime Television.”
Teaching Sociology 43(1): 39-45. (co-authored with Cherise A. Harris, 2015)
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“Multiracial Americans:  Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data.”  Sociology Compass 6(4): 316-331. (2012)
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“Ethnicity and Race as ‘Symbolic’: The Use of Ethnic and Racial Symbols in Asserting a Biracial Identity.”
Ethnic and Racial Studies 34(6): 1049-1067. (2011)
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“Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work Among Biracial Americans.”  Social Psychology Quarterly 73(4): 380-397. (co-authored with Cathryn Johnson, 2010)

Excerpts reprinted in Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class:  Dimensions of Inequality
 and Constructions of Deviance:  Social Power, Context, and Interaction. 
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“‘If You’re Half Black, You’re Just Black’: Reflected Appraisals and the Persistence of the One Drop Rule.” 
The Sociological Quarterly 51(1):  96-121. (2010)
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“Teaching Race as a Social Construction:  Two Interactive Class Exercises.”  Teaching Sociology 37(4): 369-78. (co-authored with Cherise A. Harris, 2009)
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​“The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity:  The Case of Multiracial Asians.” 
Social Psychology Quarterly 67: 2: 115-131. (2004)

Book Chapters

“‘Doesn’t Anti-Blackness Only Happen in the US?’: Confronting the Reality of Global Anti-Blackness”
in Getting Real about Race:  Hoodies, Mascots, Model Minorities, and Other Conversations, edited by Stephanie M. McClure and Cherise A. Harris.  Sage. (Forthcoming)
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“Cultural Supports for Systemic Racism in the US”
in  Sociology in Action:  Race and Ethnicity, edited by Kathleen Korgen.  Sage. (2021)
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“The Connections among Racial Identity, Class, and Culture?”
Chapter 4 in in Race Policy and Multiracial Americans, edited by Kathleen Korgen.  Policy Press. (2016)
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​“‘But What about the Children?’  Understanding Contemporary Attitudes towards Interracial Dating and Marriage.” 
Pp. 125-139 in Getting Real about Race:  Hoodies, Mascots, Model Minorities, and Other Conversations, edited by Stephanie M. McClure and Cherise A. Harris.  Sage Publications. (2014)
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​“Country Clubs and Hip-Hop Thugs:  Examining the Role of Social Class and Culture in Shaping Racial Identity.” 
Pp. 53-71 in Multiracial Americans and Social Class: The Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity, edited by Kathleen Korgen.  Routledge.  (2010)