C Feliciano
Biographic Data
| ID | 11382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Feliciano |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Feliciano |
| SIGNATURE | FELICIANO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6696-7236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Seen as Latino, Assumed Lower Class: Racialized Class and Immigrant Status Perceptions in the United States
Although racial and class stereotypes are intertwined, few studies have examined the degree to which racial perceptions are linked to assumptions about social class. Among Latinos, racial self-identities often do not align with racial classifications by others, complicating debates about their place in the U.S. racial order. This study draws on unique survey data in which respondents classify the race, immigrant status, and social class of people…
Different but Somewhat Similar: Panethnicity, Group Boundaries, and Dating Preferences among Asian and Latino College Students
Few studies of romantic unions focus on interethnic preferences among Asians and Latinos to discern the salience of panethnicity in dating. Using unique mixed-methods data, which disaggregates the ethnic identity of respondents and their preferred partners, we examine patterns of panethnic and non-panethnic dating choices among Asian and Latino college students and their explanations for their preferences. We find that Asian college students, exc…
Reinforcing the Racial Structure: Observed Race and Multiracial Internet Daters’ Racial Preferences
Is the growing multiracial population changing the US racial structure? This study examines how self-identifying with more than one racial group relates to racial dating choices—an outcome that reveals multiracial individuals’ agency in the process of racial boundary-making and reduction. Quantitative analyses of profiles drawn from the largest online dating website, combined with observer racial classifications of profile photos, reveal divergen…
Coming of age before the great expulsion: The story of the Cils-San Diego sample 25 years later
California was transformed by immigration in the 1980s. In 1991, a representative sample of children of immigrants and refugees was drawn from 8th/9th graders in San Diego's public schools. These CILS respondents were followed for nearly 25 years, from early adolescence to their late thirties, combining surveys with in-depth qualitative interviews. The educational and cultural integration of this segment of the new second generation has been larg…
Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood
Cynthia Feliciano, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 26-46
Access and Mobilization: How Social Capital Relates to Low-Income Youth's Postsecondary Educational (PSE) Attainment
Youth from advantaged backgrounds have more social relationships that provide access to resources facilitating their educational success than those from low-income families. Does access to and mobilization of social capital also relate to success among the few low-income youth who 'overcome the odds' and persist in higher education? Using nationally representative longitudinal data over a 14-year period, this study shows that although access to s…
How family, immigrant group, and school contexts shape ethnic educational disparities
Scholars have long questioned why average educational attainments among children of immigrants vary greatly by country of origin. Immigrants' children from the same country share similar contexts of exit and reception and often similar school and family contexts. What is the relative importance of these factors in explaining ethnic differences in educational attainment? Using cross-classified multi-level models, this study shows that family conte…
Racialized Femininity and Masculinity in the Preferences of Online Same-sex Daters
This study considers how online dating preferences reflect gendered racial inequality among same-sex daters. Research shows that heterosexuals reproduce gendered racial hierarchies through partner preferences, yet little work examines the preferences of sexual minorities, especially lesbians. Moreover, few studies examine racial heterophily (a preference for racial groups other than one’s own), which may influence interracial pairings. Using data…
The Effect of State Transfers on Poverty in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
An Immigrant Paradox? Contextual Attainment and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Numerous studies have revealed a seemingly paradoxical pattern in which, despite cultural differences, unfamiliarity with the educational system, and possible language difficulties, children of immigrants outperform their peers with native-born parents in the U.S. educational system. We problematize the notion of an immigrant paradox in education by broadening our conceptualization of social class background, and introducing the concept of contex…
The Immigrant Advantage in Adolescent Educational Expectations
Previous research has shown uniquely high expectations among children of immigrants. However, existing studies have not focused on why children of immigrants have an expectations advantage over their native-born counterparts or if this has changed over time. This study shows that an immigrant advantage in graduate school expectations persists among adolescent children of immigrants today. Regression analyses reveal that this advantage is largely …
Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries
Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification
Although race-based discrimination and stereotyping can only occur if people place others into racial categories, our understanding of this process, particularly in contexts where observers categorize others based solely on appearance, is limited. Using a unique data set drawn from observers' assessments of photos posted by White, Black, Latino, and multiracial online daters, this study examines how phenotype and observer characteristics influenc…
How External Racial Classifications Shape Latino Dating Choices1
Understanding how different dimensions of race relate to the lived experiences of Latinos may shed light on the assimilation trajectories of different segments of the Latino population. Existing research suggests that racial appearance influences Latinos' socioeconomic outcomes due to discrimination. However, researchers have not examined how Latinos' perceived race relates to their acceptance of other racial/ethnic groups, thus revealing their a…
The Female Educational Advantage Among Adolescent Children of Immigrants
The female advantage in educational achievement is especially puzzling in the case of children of immigrants because it departs from the pattern in most immigrants' home countries. Using data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), this study explores the female advantage in grades and expectations among adolescents and finds that the advantage is limited to youth from lower socioeconomic status immigrant families. In addition,…
Patterns of Racial-Ethnic Exclusion by Internet Daters
Using data from 6070 U.S. heterosexual internet dating profiles, this study examines how racial and gender exclusions are revealed in the preferences of black, Latino, Asian and white online daters. Consistent with social exchange and group positions theories, the study finds that whites are least open to out-dating and that, unlike blacks, Asians and Latinos have patterns of racial exclusion similar to those of whites. Like blacks, higher earnin…
Racial Boundaries among Latinos: Evidence from Internet Daters'Racial Preferences
How the growing Latino population fits into the U.S. racial structure is a subject of considerable debate.Are Latinos developing into a separate racial group, becoming part of the dominant group, or creating a panminority group with nonwhites? Extending beyond existing research that uses intermarriage or survey data to assess racial boundaries, this study examines Latinos' stated racial preferences for dates among a sample of over 4,000 Internet …
Internet Daters’ Body Type Preferences: Race–Ethnic and Gender Differences
Employing a United States sample of 5,810 Yahoo heterosexual internet dating profiles, this study finds race-ethnicity and gender influence body type preferences for dates, with men and whites significantly more likely than women and non-whites to have such preferences. White males are more likely than non-white men to prefer to date thin and toned women, while African-American and Latino men are significantly more likely than white men to prefer…
The New U.S. Immigrants: How Do They Affect Our Understanding of the African American Experience
Because Moynihan's 1965 report (in)famously emphasized the need to change black family culture to ameliorate black poverty, his work holds relevance for understanding factors affecting color lines. The implications of recent immigration for U.S. race relations depend on family cultural orientations among Mexican Americans, as well as on how Anglos culturally perceive this group. Mexican-origin family behaviors are often reified as either being un…
Not Mexican-American, but Mexican: Shifting ethnic self-identifications among children of Mexican immigrants
Gendered racial exclusion among white internet daters
Gendered Selectivity: U.S. Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Nonmigrants, 1960–2000
Previous research suggests that Mexican female migrants face more barriers than their male counterparts. However, few studies examine how the educational characteristics of female migrants differ from those of male migrants and how selectivity may have changed in the context of evolving gender dynamics in both countries. This study uses U.S. and Mexican census data from 1960 to 2000 to compare the educational attainments of recent Mexican immigra…
Internal and External Ethnic Assessments in Eastern Europe
This paper examines how internal processes of ethnic identification influence external processes of ethnic classification. To do so, it uses survey data from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, which contain information for ethnic majorities and selected ethnic minorities (Roma (Gypsies) in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania; Hungarians in Romania; and Ukrainians in Russia). Respondentsâ self-identification of ethnicity exemplifies internal ident…
Beyond the Family: The Influence of Premigration Group Status on the Educational Expectations of Immigrants' Children
Understanding how immigrants' children form educational expectations may yield insights into the causes of eventual ethnic disparities in socioeconomic attainments. This article examines how the average relative premigration educational status of the immigrant group and the immigrant group's average postmigration SES shape the educational expectations of immigrants' children. It analyzes a unique data set that was compiled from published internat…
Does Selective Migration Matter? Explaining Ethnic Disparities in Educational Attainment among Immigrants' Children
Understanding why some national-origin groups excel in school while others do not is an enduring sociological puzzle. This paper examines whether the degree of immigrants' educational selectivity – that is, how immigrants differ educationally from non-migrants in the home country – influences educational outcomes among groups of immigrants' children. This study uses published international data and U.S. Census and Current Population Survey data o…
Educational selectivity in U.S. Immigration: How do immigrants compare to those left behind
Current immigration research has revealed little about how immigrants compare to those who do not migrate. Although most scholars agree that migrants are not random samples of their home countries’ populations, the direction and degree of educational selectivity is not fully understood. This study of 32 U.S. immigrant groups found that although nearly all immigrants are more educated than those who remain in their home countries, immigrants vary …
An Immigrant Paradox? Contextual Attainment and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Numerous studies have revealed a seemingly paradoxical pattern in which, despite cultural differences, unfamiliarity with the educational system, and possible language difficulties, children of immigrants outperform their peers with native-born parents in the U.S. educational system. We problematize the notion of an immigrant paradox in education by broadening our conceptualization of social class background, and introducing the concept of contex…
Will the new second generation experience 'downward assimilation'? Segmented assimilation re-assessed
Research on the "new second generation" in the United States has been deeply influenced by the hypothesis of "segmented assimilation", which contends that the children of immigrants are at risk of downward mobility into a "new rainbow underclass". This article seeks to assess that assertion, focusing on the experience of Mexicans, the overwhelmingly largest of today's second-generation groups, and a population of predominantly working- or lower-c…
Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification
Although race-based discrimination and stereotyping can only occur if people place others into racial categories, our understanding of this process, particularly in contexts where observers categorize others based solely on appearance, is limited. Using a unique data set drawn from observers' assessments of photos posted by White, Black, Latino, and multiracial online daters, this study examines how phenotype and observer characteristics influenc…
Does Selective Migration Matter? Explaining Ethnic Disparities in Educational Attainment among Immigrants' Children
Understanding why some national-origin groups excel in school while others do not is an enduring sociological puzzle. This paper examines whether the degree of immigrants' educational selectivity – that is, how immigrants differ educationally from non-migrants in the home country – influences educational outcomes among groups of immigrants' children. This study uses published international data and U.S. Census and Current Population Survey data o…
Gendered paths: Educational and occupational expectations and outcomes among adult children of immigrants
This article examines young adults' educational and occupational trajectories over a ten-year period using panel data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) in California. While many of the young men and women in the study are on straightforward paths to socioeconomic success, others are falling well short of their goals and imagined futures. Males begin with lower educational and occupational expectations than females in junio…
Gendered racial exclusion among white internet daters
The Immigrant Advantage in Adolescent Educational Expectations
Previous research has shown uniquely high expectations among children of immigrants. However, existing studies have not focused on why children of immigrants have an expectations advantage over their native-born counterparts or if this has changed over time. This study shows that an immigrant advantage in graduate school expectations persists among adolescent children of immigrants today. Regression analyses reveal that this advantage is largely …
Racial Boundaries among Latinos: Evidence from Internet Daters'Racial Preferences
How the growing Latino population fits into the U.S. racial structure is a subject of considerable debate.Are Latinos developing into a separate racial group, becoming part of the dominant group, or creating a panminority group with nonwhites? Extending beyond existing research that uses intermarriage or survey data to assess racial boundaries, this study examines Latinos' stated racial preferences for dates among a sample of over 4,000 Internet …
Beyond the Family: The Influence of Premigration Group Status on the Educational Expectations of Immigrants' Children
Understanding how immigrants' children form educational expectations may yield insights into the causes of eventual ethnic disparities in socioeconomic attainments. This article examines how the average relative premigration educational status of the immigrant group and the immigrant group's average postmigration SES shape the educational expectations of immigrants' children. It analyzes a unique data set that was compiled from published internat…
The Benefits of Biculturalism: Exposure to Immigrant Culture and Dropping out of School among Asian and Latino Youths
Objective . This study examines how retaining an immigrant culture affects school dropout rates among Vietnamese, Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. Methods . I use 1990 Census data to analyze how language use, household language, and presence of immigrants in the household affect dropping out of school. Results . Overall, I found that these measures have similar effects on these diverse groups: bilingual …
Assimilation or enduring racial boundaries? Generational differences in intermarriage among Asians and Latinos in the United States
Not Mexican-American, but Mexican: Shifting ethnic self-identifications among children of Mexican immigrants
The Female Educational Advantage Among Adolescent Children of Immigrants
The female advantage in educational achievement is especially puzzling in the case of children of immigrants because it departs from the pattern in most immigrants' home countries. Using data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), this study explores the female advantage in grades and expectations among adolescents and finds that the advantage is limited to youth from lower socioeconomic status immigrant families. In addition,…
Gendered Selectivity: U.S. Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Nonmigrants, 1960–2000
Previous research suggests that Mexican female migrants face more barriers than their male counterparts. However, few studies examine how the educational characteristics of female migrants differ from those of male migrants and how selectivity may have changed in the context of evolving gender dynamics in both countries. This study uses U.S. and Mexican census data from 1960 to 2000 to compare the educational attainments of recent Mexican immigra…
Internet Daters’ Body Type Preferences: Race–Ethnic and Gender Differences
Employing a United States sample of 5,810 Yahoo heterosexual internet dating profiles, this study finds race-ethnicity and gender influence body type preferences for dates, with men and whites significantly more likely than women and non-whites to have such preferences. White males are more likely than non-white men to prefer to date thin and toned women, while African-American and Latino men are significantly more likely than white men to prefer…
How family, immigrant group, and school contexts shape ethnic educational disparities
Scholars have long questioned why average educational attainments among children of immigrants vary greatly by country of origin. Immigrants' children from the same country share similar contexts of exit and reception and often similar school and family contexts. What is the relative importance of these factors in explaining ethnic differences in educational attainment? Using cross-classified multi-level models, this study shows that family conte…
Racialized Femininity and Masculinity in the Preferences of Online Same-sex Daters
This study considers how online dating preferences reflect gendered racial inequality among same-sex daters. Research shows that heterosexuals reproduce gendered racial hierarchies through partner preferences, yet little work examines the preferences of sexual minorities, especially lesbians. Moreover, few studies examine racial heterophily (a preference for racial groups other than one’s own), which may influence interracial pairings. Using data…
How External Racial Classifications Shape Latino Dating Choices1
Understanding how different dimensions of race relate to the lived experiences of Latinos may shed light on the assimilation trajectories of different segments of the Latino population. Existing research suggests that racial appearance influences Latinos' socioeconomic outcomes due to discrimination. However, researchers have not examined how Latinos' perceived race relates to their acceptance of other racial/ethnic groups, thus revealing their a…
Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood
Cynthia Feliciano, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 26-46
Access and Mobilization: How Social Capital Relates to Low-Income Youth's Postsecondary Educational (PSE) Attainment
Youth from advantaged backgrounds have more social relationships that provide access to resources facilitating their educational success than those from low-income families. Does access to and mobilization of social capital also relate to success among the few low-income youth who 'overcome the odds' and persist in higher education? Using nationally representative longitudinal data over a 14-year period, this study shows that although access to s…
The New U.S. Immigrants: How Do They Affect Our Understanding of the African American Experience
Because Moynihan's 1965 report (in)famously emphasized the need to change black family culture to ameliorate black poverty, his work holds relevance for understanding factors affecting color lines. The implications of recent immigration for U.S. race relations depend on family cultural orientations among Mexican Americans, as well as on how Anglos culturally perceive this group. Mexican-origin family behaviors are often reified as either being un…
Internal and External Ethnic Assessments in Eastern Europe
This paper examines how internal processes of ethnic identification influence external processes of ethnic classification. To do so, it uses survey data from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, which contain information for ethnic majorities and selected ethnic minorities (Roma (Gypsies) in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania; Hungarians in Romania; and Ukrainians in Russia). Respondentsâ self-identification of ethnicity exemplifies internal ident…
Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries
Coming of age before the great expulsion: The story of the Cils-San Diego sample 25 years later
California was transformed by immigration in the 1980s. In 1991, a representative sample of children of immigrants and refugees was drawn from 8th/9th graders in San Diego's public schools. These CILS respondents were followed for nearly 25 years, from early adolescence to their late thirties, combining surveys with in-depth qualitative interviews. The educational and cultural integration of this segment of the new second generation has been larg…
The Benefits of Biculturalism: Exposure to Immigrant Culture and Dropping out of School among Asian and Latino Youths
Objective . This study examines how retaining an immigrant culture affects school dropout rates among Vietnamese, Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. Methods . I use 1990 Census data to analyze how language use, household language, and presence of immigrants in the household affect dropping out of school. Results . Overall, I found that these measures have similar effects on these diverse groups: bilingual …
Assimilation or enduring racial boundaries? Generational differences in intermarriage among Asians and Latinos in the United States
Will the new second generation experience 'downward assimilation'? Segmented assimilation re-assessed
Research on the "new second generation" in the United States has been deeply influenced by the hypothesis of "segmented assimilation", which contends that the children of immigrants are at risk of downward mobility into a "new rainbow underclass". This article seeks to assess that assertion, focusing on the experience of Mexicans, the overwhelmingly largest of today's second-generation groups, and a population of predominantly working- or lower-c…
Does Selective Migration Matter? Explaining Ethnic Disparities in Educational Attainment among Immigrants' Children
Understanding why some national-origin groups excel in school while others do not is an enduring sociological puzzle. This paper examines whether the degree of immigrants' educational selectivity – that is, how immigrants differ educationally from non-migrants in the home country – influences educational outcomes among groups of immigrants' children. This study uses published international data and U.S. Census and Current Population Survey data o…
Educational selectivity in U.S. Immigration: How do immigrants compare to those left behind
Current immigration research has revealed little about how immigrants compare to those who do not migrate. Although most scholars agree that migrants are not random samples of their home countries’ populations, the direction and degree of educational selectivity is not fully understood. This study of 32 U.S. immigrant groups found that although nearly all immigrants are more educated than those who remain in their home countries, immigrants vary …
Gendered paths: Educational and occupational expectations and outcomes among adult children of immigrants
This article examines young adults' educational and occupational trajectories over a ten-year period using panel data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) in California. While many of the young men and women in the study are on straightforward paths to socioeconomic success, others are falling well short of their goals and imagined futures. Males begin with lower educational and occupational expectations than females in junio…
Beyond the Family: The Influence of Premigration Group Status on the Educational Expectations of Immigrants' Children
Understanding how immigrants' children form educational expectations may yield insights into the causes of eventual ethnic disparities in socioeconomic attainments. This article examines how the average relative premigration educational status of the immigrant group and the immigrant group's average postmigration SES shape the educational expectations of immigrants' children. It analyzes a unique data set that was compiled from published internat…
Internal and External Ethnic Assessments in Eastern Europe
This paper examines how internal processes of ethnic identification influence external processes of ethnic classification. To do so, it uses survey data from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, which contain information for ethnic majorities and selected ethnic minorities (Roma (Gypsies) in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania; Hungarians in Romania; and Ukrainians in Russia). Respondentsâ self-identification of ethnicity exemplifies internal ident…
Gendered Selectivity: U.S. Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Nonmigrants, 1960–2000
Previous research suggests that Mexican female migrants face more barriers than their male counterparts. However, few studies examine how the educational characteristics of female migrants differ from those of male migrants and how selectivity may have changed in the context of evolving gender dynamics in both countries. This study uses U.S. and Mexican census data from 1960 to 2000 to compare the educational attainments of recent Mexican immigra…
Internet Daters’ Body Type Preferences: Race–Ethnic and Gender Differences
Employing a United States sample of 5,810 Yahoo heterosexual internet dating profiles, this study finds race-ethnicity and gender influence body type preferences for dates, with men and whites significantly more likely than women and non-whites to have such preferences. White males are more likely than non-white men to prefer to date thin and toned women, while African-American and Latino men are significantly more likely than white men to prefer…
The New U.S. Immigrants: How Do They Affect Our Understanding of the African American Experience
Because Moynihan's 1965 report (in)famously emphasized the need to change black family culture to ameliorate black poverty, his work holds relevance for understanding factors affecting color lines. The implications of recent immigration for U.S. race relations depend on family cultural orientations among Mexican Americans, as well as on how Anglos culturally perceive this group. Mexican-origin family behaviors are often reified as either being un…
Not Mexican-American, but Mexican: Shifting ethnic self-identifications among children of Mexican immigrants
Gendered racial exclusion among white internet daters
Patterns of Racial-Ethnic Exclusion by Internet Daters
Using data from 6070 U.S. heterosexual internet dating profiles, this study examines how racial and gender exclusions are revealed in the preferences of black, Latino, Asian and white online daters. Consistent with social exchange and group positions theories, the study finds that whites are least open to out-dating and that, unlike blacks, Asians and Latinos have patterns of racial exclusion similar to those of whites. Like blacks, higher earnin…
Racial Boundaries among Latinos: Evidence from Internet Daters'Racial Preferences
How the growing Latino population fits into the U.S. racial structure is a subject of considerable debate.Are Latinos developing into a separate racial group, becoming part of the dominant group, or creating a panminority group with nonwhites? Extending beyond existing research that uses intermarriage or survey data to assess racial boundaries, this study examines Latinos' stated racial preferences for dates among a sample of over 4,000 Internet …
The Female Educational Advantage Among Adolescent Children of Immigrants
The female advantage in educational achievement is especially puzzling in the case of children of immigrants because it departs from the pattern in most immigrants' home countries. Using data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), this study explores the female advantage in grades and expectations among adolescents and finds that the advantage is limited to youth from lower socioeconomic status immigrant families. In addition,…
How External Racial Classifications Shape Latino Dating Choices1
Understanding how different dimensions of race relate to the lived experiences of Latinos may shed light on the assimilation trajectories of different segments of the Latino population. Existing research suggests that racial appearance influences Latinos' socioeconomic outcomes due to discrimination. However, researchers have not examined how Latinos' perceived race relates to their acceptance of other racial/ethnic groups, thus revealing their a…
The Immigrant Advantage in Adolescent Educational Expectations
Previous research has shown uniquely high expectations among children of immigrants. However, existing studies have not focused on why children of immigrants have an expectations advantage over their native-born counterparts or if this has changed over time. This study shows that an immigrant advantage in graduate school expectations persists among adolescent children of immigrants today. Regression analyses reveal that this advantage is largely …
Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries
Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification
Although race-based discrimination and stereotyping can only occur if people place others into racial categories, our understanding of this process, particularly in contexts where observers categorize others based solely on appearance, is limited. Using a unique data set drawn from observers' assessments of photos posted by White, Black, Latino, and multiracial online daters, this study examines how phenotype and observer characteristics influenc…
Racialized Femininity and Masculinity in the Preferences of Online Same-sex Daters
This study considers how online dating preferences reflect gendered racial inequality among same-sex daters. Research shows that heterosexuals reproduce gendered racial hierarchies through partner preferences, yet little work examines the preferences of sexual minorities, especially lesbians. Moreover, few studies examine racial heterophily (a preference for racial groups other than one’s own), which may influence interracial pairings. Using data…
The Effect of State Transfers on Poverty in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
An Immigrant Paradox? Contextual Attainment and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Numerous studies have revealed a seemingly paradoxical pattern in which, despite cultural differences, unfamiliarity with the educational system, and possible language difficulties, children of immigrants outperform their peers with native-born parents in the U.S. educational system. We problematize the notion of an immigrant paradox in education by broadening our conceptualization of social class background, and introducing the concept of contex…
Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood
Cynthia Feliciano, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 26-46
Access and Mobilization: How Social Capital Relates to Low-Income Youth's Postsecondary Educational (PSE) Attainment
Youth from advantaged backgrounds have more social relationships that provide access to resources facilitating their educational success than those from low-income families. Does access to and mobilization of social capital also relate to success among the few low-income youth who 'overcome the odds' and persist in higher education? Using nationally representative longitudinal data over a 14-year period, this study shows that although access to s…
Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Ethnic group (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Immigration (18 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (17 works) · Demography (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works)