E Telles

Biographic Data

ID18553
NAMEE Telles
GIVEN NAMESE
FAMILY NAMETelles
SIGNATURETELLES E
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0000-0001-5102-0835
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS1434
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX18

  • New Concepts for Immigrant Integration and Race/Ethnicity Theorizing: Ethnoracial Core and Symbolic-to-Consequential Ethnoracial Continuum

    Open AccessC A Sue, E TellesARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2026References: 74

    In this article, we discuss and expand on two novel concepts developed to better understand ethnoracial integration and variation: the ethnoracial core and the symbolic-to-consequential ethnoracial continuum . These concepts were derived from analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from the Mexican American Study Project, which showed a lasting ethnoraciality for many later-generation Mexican Americans and a high degree of within-group vari…

  • Indigeneity in the Americas: How Language, Skin Color, and Nation Shape Indigenous Identification

    Open AccessCaroline Martínez, E Telles et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2025References: 50

    Indigenous peoples have long been classified based on cultural features. Reflecting changing nation-state projects and scholarly trends, Latin American censuses traditionally used Indigenous language proficiency to classify Indigenous populations. However, most Latin American censuses now prioritize the internationally sanctioned standard of self-identification. There is little understanding, though, of how language and physical traits are relate…

  • New OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Standards Will Affect How Americans Self-Identify

    Open AccessR D Flores, E Telles et al.ARTICLESociological Science2024Cited by: 4References: 16

    In March 2024, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved major changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau. These modifications include merging the separate race and Hispanic ethnicity questions into a single combined question and adding a Middle Eastern and North African category. Government officials and researchers have requested evidence on how Ame…

  • Black Disadvantage or Advantage? Misalignment between State and Popular Understandings of Blackness in Mexico

    Open AccessC A Sue, Fernando Riosmena et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2024Cited by: 3References: 39

    Growing numbers of countries are including ethnoracial questions on their national censuses, spawning new scholarship on the politics of state classification and ethnoracial stratification. However, these literatures have generally not focused on how alignment or misalignment between state and popular conceptualizations of ethnoracial categories affects official measurements, including population size and ethnoracial inequality. The authors lever…

  • Black-white intermarriage in global perspective

    Open AccessE Telles, Albert Esteves et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2023Cited by: 1References: 61

    BACKGROUND: Intermarriage is a leading indicator of racialized relations. Scholarly literature has focused on the United States. We show that, in world perspective, black–white intermarriage is especially low in that country. Surprisingly, there are no studies that compare black–white intermarriage across a broad range of countries around the world. OBJECTIVE: How does black–white intermarriage compare in Brazil, Cuba, France, South Africa, the U…

  • Race/Ethnic Differences, Skin Tone, and Memory Among Older Latinos in the United States

    Open AccessMao‐mei Liu, E Telles et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2022Cited by: 2References: 18

    Findings support the importance of examining self-identified race and skin tone in Latino aging research. Further investigation is needed to understand the stubborn intra-Latino racial disparities in memory performance and surprising adverse cognitive performance among "white"-toned relative to darker-toned Puerto Ricans in Boston

  • Color disparities in cognitive aging among Puerto Ricans on the archipelago

    Open AccessMao‐mei Liu, Michael Crowe et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2021

    This research seeks to contribute new understanding of color disparities and gender in cognitive aging among older adults residing in Puerto Rico. We use the island-representative Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions (PREHCO) longitudinal study that measures cognitive health at baseline and cognitive decline between waves. In pooled models, we discern little or no color disparities in cognition at baseline. Sex-stratified models of baseline cog…

  • Trump Paradox: How Immigration and Trade Affected White Voting and Attitudes

    Open AccessRaul Hinojosa Ojeda, E TellesARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2021Cited by: 5References: 28

    Donald Trump presented immigration and trade as the cause of the diminished prospects of white working-class voters, the core of his political base. The authors' research-the first that examines actual immigration and trade exposure with attitudes and Trump voting-demonstrates that white voting for Trump was unrelated to immigration levels and, paradoxically, strongest in counties with low levels of trade. Anti-immigrant and antitrade attitudes m…

  • Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core

    E Telles, Edward E Telles et al.BOOKDurable Ethnicity2019

    Despite the common perception that most persons of Mexican origin in the United States are undocumented immigrants or the young children of immigrants, the majority are citizens and have been living in the United States for three or more generations. On many dimensions of integration, this group initially makes strides on education, English language use, socioeconomic status, intermarriage, residential segregation, and political participation, bu…

  • Varieties of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Open AccessE Telles, F TorcheARTICLESocial Forces2019

    We examine sources of indigenous identity in the two countries with the largest indigenous populations in the Western Hemisphere—Mexico and Peru. We find that the size of the indigenous population varies dramatically depending on the measure of indigeneity used, and that using multiple measures captures distinct modes of indigeneity. Using latent class analysis, we find that contemporary indigenous classification clusters around four types, which…

  • Racial Intermarriage in the Americas

    Open AccessE Telles, Albert EstevesARTICLESociological Science2019Cited by: 6References: 28

    We compare intermarriage in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States among the black, white, and mixed-race population using log-linear models with data from newly available anonymized and harmonized individual census microdata for the 2000 round of censuses. We find that black–white intermarriage is 105 times as likely in Brazil and 28 times as likely in Cuba compared to the United States; that Brazilian mulatos are four times as likely to marry whit…

  • Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans

    Open AccessVilma Ortiz, E TellesARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2017Cited by: 18References: 28

    Among Mexican Americans, generational differences in education do not fit with assimilation theory's predictions of significant improvement from the second to third generation; instead, education for third generation remains similar to the second generation and falls behind that of non-Hispanic whites. Scholars have not examined this educational gap for recent cohorts, nor have they considered a wide range of economic outcomes by generation. Usin…

  • Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement

    Angela R Dixon, E Telles et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Sociology2017Cited by: 169References: 121

    We examine a vast, interdisciplinary, and increasingly global literature concerning skin color and colorism, which are related to status throughout the world. The vast majority of research has investigated Western societies, where color and colorism have been closely related to race and racism. In Latin America, the two sets of concepts have particularly overlapped. In the rest of the world, particularly in Asia, color and colorism have also been…

  • Multiple measures of ethnoracial classification in Latin America

    E Telles, Edward E TellesARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2017Cited by: 6References: 13

    Today, most Latin American countries have begun to recognize ethnoracial distinctions, disadvantages and discrimination and they have begun to collect ethnoracial data, in what has been called the

  • Black lives matter in Brazil

    E TellesARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2017References: 1

    Michelle Lamont and her collaborators examine the experiences and responses of racialized minorities in confronting racism in the United States, Brazil and Israel. Among their findings, they find that while U.S. blacks often confront offenders, black Brazilians respond by ignoring or humouring them. They often do not understand such situations as racial because of Brazilian narratives that extensive miscegenation has diminished racism and that cl…

  • Race in Latin America

    Open AccessE TellesOTHEREmerging Trends in the Social and…2015

    Race has long been a primary cleavage in Latin American societies, where people of African, Indigenous, and European origin have been present in large numbers. Although they have promoted race mixture as central to their national identities and often denied racism and racial discrimination, racial hierarchies have also been prominent features up until the present. Today, most Latin American countries have declared themselves multiculturalist and …

  • Pigmentocracies: Educational inequality, skin color and census ethnoracial identification in eight Latin American countries

    Open AccessE Telles, R D Flores et al.ARTICLEResearch in Social Stratification…2015Cited by: 69References: 22

    For the first time, most Latin American censuses ask respondents to self-identify by race or ethnicity allowing researchers to examine long-ignored ethnoracial inequalities. However, reliance on census ethnoracial categories could poorly capture the manifestation(s) of race that lead to inequality in the region, because of classificatory ambiguity and within-category racial or color heterogeneity. To overcome this, we modeled the relation of both…

  • "A comment on Jonas Zoninsein "Ethnic Minorities and the Political Economy of Development

    Open AccessE TellesARTICLERevista Econômica2014

  • Robert J. Cottrol. The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere

    E Telles, Edward E TellesARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    In The Long, Lingering Shadow, Robert J. Cottrol provides an impressive synthesis of major laws and legislation relating to race in the Americas writ hemispherically. In only 300 pages of text, he manages to cover, in broad brushstrokes, the major features of the longue durée of racial history, with its enormous national diversity. In contrast to the considerable literature on law and race in the United States, there has been relatively little wr…

  • The color of health: Skin color, ethnoracial classification, and discrimination in the health of Latin Americans

    Open AccessKrista M Perreira, E Telles et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2014Cited by: 67References: 50

  • Who Is Black, White, or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status, and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America

    E Telles, Tianna S Paschel et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology2014Cited by: 101References: 49

    Comparative research on racial classification has often turned to Latin America, where race is thought to be particularly fluid. Using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 America's Barometer survey, the authors examine patterns of self-identification in four countries. National differences in the relation between skin color, socioeconomic status, and race were found. Skin color predicts race closely in Panama but loosely in the …

  • Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America

    Open AccessE Telles, Denia GarciaARTICLELatin American Research Review2013

    Latin American elites authored and disseminated ideologies of mestizaje or race mixture, but does the general population value them today? Using the 2010 Americas Barometer, we examined public opinion about mestizaje in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru using survey questions that modeled mestizaje both as a principle of national development and as tolerance for intermarriage with black or ind…

  • Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation, and Status in Latin America

    E Telles, R D Flores et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2013Cited by: 47

    In this study we use statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys from the 2010 AmericasBarometer to examine how color, nationality, and several individual characteristics are related to white identification in 17 Latin American countries. Unlike the common treatment of racial identification as a fixed and self-evident determinant of social status or behavior, we treat it as a flexible social outcome. We find that though white identi…

  • Understanding Latin American Beliefs about Racial Inequality

    E Telles, Stanley R Bailey et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology2013Cited by: 69References: 40

    Scholars argue that Latin American ideologies of mestizaje, or racial mixing, mask ethnoracial discrimination. We examine popular explanations for indigenous or Afrodescendant disadvantage in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru using the 2010 AmericasBarometer survey. Findings show that numerical majorities across all countries endorse structural-disadvantage explanations and reject victim-blaming s…

  • Social Stratification in Mexico: Disentangling Color, Ethnicity, and Class

    Open AccessR D Flores, René Flores et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review2012Cited by: 76References: 16

    In a recent ASR article (2010), Andres Villarreal (hereafter AV) presents evidence of dramatic skin color stratification and indigenous disadvantage in contemporary Mexico based on the 2006 MIT Mexico Panel Study. AV uses regression models to predict educational attainment, occupational status and household income for Mexicans by ethnicity and according to three skin color categories. He finds that the darkest skin tone individuals have the lowes…