Jennifer Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5383-694X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Correlates of Blunt Use Frequency and Blunt/Cigar Dual Use Among Youth and Young Adults
BACKGROUND: Blunts are a popular mode of cannabis use that exposes the user to nicotine and risk of nicotine addiction. We examined correlates of blunt use frequency and dual use of blunts and cigars among youth and young adults residing in New York. METHODS: = 466) who reported past-year use of blunts. We used two multinomial logistic regression models with dependent variables for days of blunt use in the past 30 d and blunt and cigar, little ci…
The “Model Minority” from Education to the Workplace
In June 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in university admissions—a decision largely due to allegations that elite universities had engaged in racial discrimination against Asian American applicants. Central to both sides of the affirmative action debate was the recognition that stereotypes of Asian Americans as “model minorities” in the classroom played a role in college admissions. While much attention has fo…
Race by Law for Asian Americans
An exploration of multiracial identity development, worldviews, and social realities of Asian–White individuals
Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds
The Asian American assimilation paradox
The fastest growing ethnoracial group in the United States, Asian Americans are the most highly educated, the highest earning, and the most likely to intermarry. Once deemed diseased, morally deviant, unfit for citizenship, and unassimilable, Asian Americans have attained unprecedented racial mobility, now boasting socioeconomic outcomes that surpass those of native-born Whites. Their attainment has led some social scientists to conclude that Asi…
Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market
Presumed competent, Asian Americans exhibit the highest level of education and median household income of all major US ethnoracial groups. On average, they outpace all groups in the domain of education, yet they do not maintain their advantage in the labor market. The question of bias against Asian Americans has taken center stage in the most recent US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, but the attention has been on university admissions…
Removing the armor: Art, the fat body and vulnerability
It feels transgressive to reveal what I am most scared to reveal, to share stories, vulnerability and sometimes “dirty laundry” in my writing. It can open me up to potential attack. But a few years ago, I realized that it was still safer for me to express my fat activism in written form. I made the decision to move from fat activism driven by writing, to include activism that explores fat embodiment through representation of my body in shibari (J…
Segmented assimilation and mobility among men in the early 20th century
Segmented assimilation theory asserts that children born to immigrants experience divergent paths of incorporation. While some exhibit substantial gains in well-being, others may fare worse than US-origin whites or their own parents. It is certainly true t
Conducting Digital Intervention Research among Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Methodological, Safety and Ethnical Considerations
Portable Prototypes: Canterbury Badges and the Thomasaltar in Hamburg
Pilgrims’ badges often depicted works of art located at a cult center, and these cheap, small images frequently imitated monumental works. Was this relationship ever reversed? In late medieval Hamburg, a painted altarpiece from a Hanseatic guild narrates the life of Thomas Becket in four scenes, two of which survive. In 1932, Tancred Borenius declared this altarpiece to be the first monumental expression of Becket’s narrative in northern Germany.…
From Narrative Scarcity to Research Plenitude for Asian Americans
Jennifer Lee a, Karthick Ramakrishnan b, From Narrative Scarcity to Research Plenitude for Asian Americans, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 2, Asian Americans and the Immigrant Integration Agenda (April 2021), pp. 1-20
Republicans are more optimistic about economic mobility, but no less accurate
Do Americans overestimate economic mobility? Using representative surveys of the public and local government officials, we assess claims of widespread misperceptions about economic mobility by measuring the accuracy of participants’ perceptions of both relative and absolute mobility. Republican members of the public and government officials are more optimistic than are Democrats about poor children’s chances of reaching the highest income quintil…
The Legacy of Robert K. Merton: On Theories of the Middle Range
This essay is part of a special section entitled “Legacies of Sociology’s Past.” My work addresses the contributions of Robert K. Merton
Asian Americans, Affirmative Action & the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate
No court case in recent history has propelled Asian Americans into the political sphere like Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and no issue has galvanized them like affirmative action. Asian Americans have taken center stage in the latest battle over affirmative action, yet their voices have been muted in favor of narratives that paint them as victims of affirmative action who ardently oppose the policy. Bridging theory and research on imm…
Examining Patients’ Capacity to Use Patient Portals: Insights for Telehealth
BACKGROUND: The increase in telehealth in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic highlights the need to understand patients' capacity to utilize this care modality. Patient portals are a tool whose use requires similar resources and skills as those required for telehealth. Patients' capacity to use patient portals may therefore provide insight regarding patients' readiness and capacity to use telehealth. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this stud…
Reckoning with Asian America and the New Culture War on Affirmative Action
The latest battle over affirmative action in university admissions may soon reach the U.S. Supreme Court, and a ruling in the plaintiff’s favor will end affirmative action in higher education across the nation. Asian Americans have taken center stage in this new culture war, fueled by the reigning narrative that they are victims of the policy who are unjustly penalized because of their race in spite of their competence. Opponents of affirmative a…
The Merchants’ Saint: Thomas Becket among the Merchants of Hamburg
A remarkable painted altarpiece in the Hamburger Kunsthalle serves as a valuable visual source for the character of devotion to St Thomas Becket in a 15th-century Hanseatic city. Commissioned from the artist Meister Francke by a guild of merchants known as the Englandfahrer, the altarpiece includes four panels depicting a narrative of St Thomas, of which two survive and two are known from an 18th-century engraving. One scene, unique among images …
“You will face discrimination”: Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession
This is an autoethnographic article that explores the intersection of fatness, pregnancy, motherhood, health and diabetes, and interaction with the medical profession. The autoethnographic approach used includes both written stories and photographic narrative. There have been times when my fat body has been seen by the medical profession as barren, incapable, and excessive and also times when I didn’t know whether I could trust a medical opinion …
Power and technology: Who Gets to Make the Decisions
research-article Open Access Share on Power and technology: who gets to make the decisions? Authors: Jennifer Lee American Civil Liberties Union of Washington American Civil Liberties Union of WashingtonView Profile , Meg Young Cornell University Cornell UniversityView Profile , P. M. Krafft Oxford Internet Institute Oxford Internet InstituteView Profile , Michael A. Katell Alan Turing Institute Alan Turing InstituteView Profile Authors Info & Cl…
Cultural Heterogeneity and the Diverse Success Frames of Second-Generation Mexicans
Mexican Americans are the largest immigrant and second-generation group in the country. Their sheer size coupled with their low educational attainment have generated concerns that, unlike Asian groups like Chinese Americans, Mexican Americans do not value education-a claim wielded by opponents of affirmative action. Drawing on analyses of the Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles study, we challenge two underlying…
Origins and Destinations: The Making of the Second Generation
The reigning misperception about culture and Asian American achievement
Asian Americans graduate from college at higher rates than other groups, and evince educational outcomes that match or exceed those of their parents. They comprise about 25 per cent of the student body in Ivy League institutions, despite making up only 6 per cent of the U.S. population. While it may be tempting to reduce Asian American academic achievement to Asian culture, and Confucian values more specifically, we provide disconfirming evidence…
Who counts as Asian
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 purportedly apply. We test whether the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of Asian corresponds with Americans' understanding of the category, and find a disjuncture between those groups the U.S. government assign as Asian, and those that Americans include in the category. For Wh…
Ethnic Enclave
Ethnic enclaves are spatial concentrations of coethnic immigrants organized by socioeconomic activities. Historically, ethnic enclaves emerged as a result of exclusionary policies and discrimination, but they persist because they serve invaluable functions for immigrants and later generation ethnics. Social scientists have disagreed on the conceptualization, benefits, and potential costs of ethnic enclave formation and enterprise for coethnics. T…
America's Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification
Over the past four decades, immigration has increased the racial and ethnic diversity in the United States. Once a mainly biracial society with a large white majority and relatively small black minority-and an impenetrable color line dividing these groups-the United States is now a society composed of multiple racial and ethnic groups. Along with increased immigration are rises in the rates of racial/ethnic intermarriage, which in turn have led t…
Segmented assimilation and minority cultures of mobility
Recent work on second-generation immigrants posits that racial discrimination and a restructuring economy are likely to create different paths of assimilation for recent non-white immigrants than earlier European immigrants followed, and may even decouple acculturation and economic mobility. But while these discussions have considered the minority lower class as a possible destination for assimilation, middle-class minorities have been largely ig…
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied: Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility in Los Angeles's New Second Generation
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Who counts as Asian
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 purportedly apply. We test whether the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of Asian corresponds with Americans' understanding of the category, and find a disjuncture between those groups the U.S. government assign as Asian, and those that Americans include in the category. For Wh…
Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage
Asian Americans comprise 6.4% of the US population, but account for over 20% of the country's elite Ivy League students. While researchers have studied mechanisms that promote an "Asian second-generation advantage" in education, including immigrant hyper-selectivity, few have examined whether this advantage extends into the labour market. Focusing on the five largest Asian groups - Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Koreans - we revisit…
Hyper-selectivity and the remaking of culture: Understanding the Asian American achievement paradox
Asian Americans are frequently deployed as racial mascots by pundits who fixate on their extraordinary levels of educational attainment.They comprise only 5.5 percent of the U.S. population, yet about onefifth of the entering classes in Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.Pundits have attributed these educational outcomes to cultural factors, underpinned by values or traits that are innately Asian.However, this cultural expl…
Brown picket fences: The immigrant narrative and `giving back' among the Mexican-origin middle class
In 2000, Latinos superseded blacks as the largest racial/ethnic minority group in the US, comprising nearly 13 percent of the US population, and by 2050, demographers estimate that their population will have reached 25 percent. Given the size and growth of the Latino population, an important sociological concern is the extent to which the adult children of Latino immigrants incorporate into the US social structure. Focusing on the largest ethnic …
The Success Frame and Achievement Paradox: The Costs and Consequences for Asian Americans
Why class matters less for Asian-American academic achievement
Asian-Americans are 6% of the U.S. population but comprise more than one-fifth of the entering classes in the country’s Ivy League universities. At prestigious public universities like the University of California, Berkeley, they constitute more than 40% of the student body. Figures like these would be unremarkable if Asian-Americans students uniformly hailed from high socioeconomic backgrounds, but this is not the case. Even the children of Chin…
Becoming Ethnic or Becoming American: Reflecting on the Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility and Assimilation Among the New Second Generation
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 attention to this growing population. In this essay, we first review the extant literature on immigrant incorporation, with a particular focus on the mobility patterns of the new second generation. Second, we critically evaluate the existing assumptions about the defin…
Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race
Van C. Tran, Jennifer Lee, Oshin Khachikian, Jess Lee, Hyper-selectivity, Racial Mobility, and the Remaking of Race, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 5, Immigration and Changing Identities (August 2018), pp. 188-209
The Asian American assimilation paradox
The fastest growing ethnoracial group in the United States, Asian Americans are the most highly educated, the highest earning, and the most likely to intermarry. Once deemed diseased, morally deviant, unfit for citizenship, and unassimilable, Asian Americans have attained unprecedented racial mobility, now boasting socioeconomic outcomes that surpass those of native-born Whites. Their attainment has led some social scientists to conclude that Asi…
From Undesirable to Marriageable: Hyper-Selectivity and the Racial Mobility of Asian Americans
Asian Americans are at the vanguard of rising intermarriage in the United States. Once deemed "undesirable" and "unassimilable," Asian Americans have become the most "marriageable" racial minority group in the country. In this article, I posit that the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act altered the socioeconomic profiles of Asian immigrants to the United States, thereby making them more desirable partners in the marriage market. …
A Postracial Society or a Diversity Paradox: Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Southern states decreed that one drop of African American blood made a multiracial individual Black, and even today, multiracial Blacks are typically perceived as being Black only, underscoring the enduring legacy and entrenchment of the one-drop rule of hypodescent. But how are Asians and Latinos with mixed ancestry perceived? Based on analyses of census data and in-depth interviews with interracial cou…
From Civil Relations to Racial Conflict: Merchant-Customer Interactions in Urban America
The 1992 Los Angeles riot, the boycotts of Korean-owned businesses, and the 1995 firebombing of a Jewish-owned store in New York's Harlem brought concerns about race and ethnic relations in black neighborhoods to the fore. Images of conflict seared into the public consciousness that black communities are fraught with racial animosity, with immigrant merchants pitted against black customers. The merchant-customer relationship has been cited as a c…
The Salience of Race in Everyday Life: Black Customers' Shopping Experiences in Black and White Neighborhoods
This article focuses on Black customers' shopping experiences in both Black and White neighborhoods, drawing on 75 in-depth interviews of Black shoppers in New York City and Philadelphia. Previous research focuses on the prejudicial attitudes of the business owners in predominantly Black neighborhoods, yet none of the studies include the customers' views. Customers report that most merchant-customer interactions in Black neighborhoods are positiv…
The Current State of Mental Health Research on Asian Americans
A review of research reveals that the prevalence rates of depression, somatization, and posttraumatic stress disorder among Asian Americans are at least as high as those for White Americans, and, in many cases, higher rates are exhibited. Findings with respect to anxiety have been equivocal. The conclusion that is best supported by research at this time is that Asian Americans are not extraordinarily well adjusted, in contrast to their stereotype…
Accurately Counting Asian Americans Is a Civil Rights Issue
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing group in the United States, increasing from 0.7 percent in 1970 to nearly 6 percent in 2016. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2065, Asian Americans will constitute 14 percent of the U.S. population. Immigration is fueling this growth: China and India have passed Mexico as the top countries sending immigrants to the United States since 2013. Today, two of three Asian Americans are foreign born-a figur…
Redrawing the Color Line
In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois prophesied that the “problem of the twentieth–century is the problem of the color line,” by which he meant the tenacious black–white divide that has long characterized the nature of race relations in the United States ([1903] 1997: 45). Nearly a century later, Herbert J. Gans speculated the traditional black–white fault line may soon be replaced by a black–nonblack divide that may be qualitatively different from the black–…
Immigration & the Color Line at the Beginning of the 21st Century
The “color line” has long served as a metaphor for the starkness of black/white relations in the United States. Yet post-1965 increases in U.S. immigration have brought millions whose ethnoracial status seems neither black nor white, boosting ethnoracial diversity and potentially changing the color line. After reviewing past and current conceptualizations of America's racial divide(s), we ask what recent trends in intermarriage and multiracial id…
From Narrative Scarcity to Research Plenitude for Asian Americans
Jennifer Lee a, Karthick Ramakrishnan b, From Narrative Scarcity to Research Plenitude for Asian Americans, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 2, Asian Americans and the Immigrant Integration Agenda (April 2021), pp. 1-20
Asian Americans, Affirmative Action & the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate
No court case in recent history has propelled Asian Americans into the political sphere like Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and no issue has galvanized them like affirmative action. Asian Americans have taken center stage in the latest battle over affirmative action, yet their voices have been muted in favor of narratives that paint them as victims of affirmative action who ardently oppose the policy. Bridging theory and research on imm…
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…
Cultural Brokers: Race-Based Hiring in Inner-City Neighborhoods
Race matters in today's inner-city job market. Small business owners in predominantly Black neighborhoods prefer hiring Blacks for reasons that have nothing to do with Title VII or government pressure for affirmative action. Instead, these entrepreneurs hire Blacks because of their perceived use as cultural brokers in dealing with a Black clientele. Based on 75 in-depth merchant interviews from five predominantly Black neighborhoods in New York C…
Reckoning with Asian America and the New Culture War on Affirmative Action
The latest battle over affirmative action in university admissions may soon reach the U.S. Supreme Court, and a ruling in the plaintiff’s favor will end affirmative action in higher education across the nation. Asian Americans have taken center stage in this new culture war, fueled by the reigning narrative that they are victims of the policy who are unjustly penalized because of their race in spite of their competence. Opponents of affirmative a…
The influence of self‐related goals on the use of stereotypical and individuating information
The present study examines the influence of motives in the use of stereotypical and individuating information in perceiving a target person who is an outgroup member. Subjects were given both gender stereotypical and non- (or counter-) stereotypical behavioural descriptions of a target person who was always opposite-sexed to the subjects. Subjects expected either to compete or to cooperate with the target on a task described as either masculine o…
Locked on course: Hydro-Quebec's commitment to mega-projects
Cultural Brokers: Race-Based Hiring in Inner-City Neighborhoods
Race matters in today's inner-city job market. Small business owners in predominantly Black neighborhoods prefer hiring Blacks for reasons that have nothing to do with Title VII or government pressure for affirmative action. Instead, these entrepreneurs hire Blacks because of their perceived use as cultural brokers in dealing with a Black clientele. Based on 75 in-depth merchant interviews from five predominantly Black neighborhoods in New York C…
Retail Niche Domination Among African American, Jewish, and Korean Entrepreneurs: Competition, Coethnic Advantage and Disadvantage
Do immigrant entrepreneurs who open businesses in predominantly Black neighborhoods take business opportunities away from African Americans in the community? Given the prevalence of immigrant-owned businesses, one may assume that immigrant groups such as Koreans, Jews, Chinese, and Asian Indians compete with African American entrepreneurs, thereby inhibiting African American small-business development. However, immigrant groups enter and dominate…
Segmented assimilation and minority cultures of mobility
Recent work on second-generation immigrants posits that racial discrimination and a restructuring economy are likely to create different paths of assimilation for recent non-white immigrants than earlier European immigrants followed, and may even decouple acculturation and economic mobility. But while these discussions have considered the minority lower class as a possible destination for assimilation, middle-class minorities have been largely ig…
The Current State of Mental Health Research on Asian Americans
A review of research reveals that the prevalence rates of depression, somatization, and posttraumatic stress disorder among Asian Americans are at least as high as those for White Americans, and, in many cases, higher rates are exhibited. Findings with respect to anxiety have been equivocal. The conclusion that is best supported by research at this time is that Asian Americans are not extraordinarily well adjusted, in contrast to their stereotype…
The Salience of Race in Everyday Life: Black Customers' Shopping Experiences in Black and White Neighborhoods
This article focuses on Black customers' shopping experiences in both Black and White neighborhoods, drawing on 75 in-depth interviews of Black shoppers in New York City and Philadelphia. Previous research focuses on the prejudicial attitudes of the business owners in predominantly Black neighborhoods, yet none of the studies include the customers' views. Customers report that most merchant-customer interactions in Black neighborhoods are positiv…
From Civil Relations to Racial Conflict: Merchant-Customer Interactions in Urban America
The 1992 Los Angeles riot, the boycotts of Korean-owned businesses, and the 1995 firebombing of a Jewish-owned store in New York's Harlem brought concerns about race and ethnic relations in black neighborhoods to the fore. Images of conflict seared into the public consciousness that black communities are fraught with racial animosity, with immigrant merchants pitted against black customers. The merchant-customer relationship has been cited as a c…
Immigration and the Black-White Color Line in the United States
Attitudes of Youth of Color on Student Dress and Uniforms: A Case of Commercialism in Schools
Velma LaPoint, Sylvan I. Alleyne, Harold W. Mitchell, Jennifer Lee, Attitudes of Youth of Color on Student Dress and Uniforms: A Case of Commercialism in Schools, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 72, No. 4, Commercialism in the Lives of Children and Youth of Color: Education and Other Socialization Contexts (Autumn, 2003), pp. 406-417
Black Educators' Views on Middle School Students' Dress and Uniforms: Addressing Challenges from Commercialism
Youth dress, influenced by commercialism, impacts students' attitudes and behaviors in public schools. This article reports quantitative data and qualitative data on Black educators' views on student dress and behavior, including the use of uniforms. Findings indicate that educators support the use of school uniforms because they believe that uniforms reduced the risk of both psychological harm and school related problems. Younger students (sixth…
Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity
America's Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification
Over the past four decades, immigration has increased the racial and ethnic diversity in the United States. Once a mainly biracial society with a large white majority and relatively small black minority-and an impenetrable color line dividing these groups-the United States is now a society composed of multiple racial and ethnic groups. Along with increased immigration are rises in the rates of racial/ethnic intermarriage, which in turn have led t…
Who We Are: America Becoming and Becoming American
Samuel P. Huntington,Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, 448 pages, ISBN: 0-684-86668-4, Cloth, $27.00.Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, eds.,Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, 448 pages, ISBN: 0-87154-436-9, Cloth, $39.95.Mae M. Ngai,Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern Americ…
Religious Identity among Christian Korean-American Adolescents
This exploratory study examined religious identity among Christian Korean-American adolescents. Marcia's 1966 model of identity formation, which conceptualizes identity along dimensions of exploration and commitment, provided the framework for the current study. 49 participants, between the ages of 14 and 19 years, completed the Duke Religion Index, the religion items from the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status, the Pan-denominatio…
Raising the Status of the Cashier: Latina–White Interactions in an Ethnic Market
Constructing Race and Civility in Urban America
Images of violence and conflict often go hand-in-hand with life in Black, urban communities, an association buttressed by the sensational media accounts that highlight crime, firebombings and riots. Past scholarly research also depicts interethnic relations in Black neighbourhoods as conflict-ridden, with immigrant merchants pitted against Black customers. However, this paper argues that previous research has been biased toward conflict and contr…
Cultural Assets or Structural Advantages in Numbers Gambling
Redrawing the Color Line
In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois prophesied that the “problem of the twentieth–century is the problem of the color line,” by which he meant the tenacious black–white divide that has long characterized the nature of race relations in the United States ([1903] 1997: 45). Nearly a century later, Herbert J. Gans speculated the traditional black–white fault line may soon be replaced by a black–nonblack divide that may be qualitatively different from the black–…
Becoming Ethnic or Becoming American: Reflecting on the Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility and Assimilation Among the New Second Generation
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 attention to this growing population. In this essay, we first review the extant literature on immigrant incorporation, with a particular focus on the mobility patterns of the new second generation. Second, we critically evaluate the existing assumptions about the defin…
Positive Impact of a Shelter-based Hepatitis B Vaccine Program in Homeless Baltimore Children and Adolescents
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City by Mary Pattillo
Journal Article Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City by Mary Pattillo Get access Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the Cityby Mary Pattillo. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2007. 400pp. $29.00. Jody Agius Vallejo, Jody Agius Vallejo University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jennifer Lee Jennifer Lee University of California, Irv…
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied: Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility in Los Angeles's New Second Generation
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Plus ça Change…? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States
The issue of race has long cast a shadow on the founding mythology of the United States, but today some scholars argue race is declining in significance, as evidenced by the rise of interracial unions and the fact that the offspring of such unions can now officially acknowledge their mixed‐race backgrounds. However, the sizeable growth of the Asian and Latino populations in the United States through immigration complicates the issue. Seemingly ne…
Teaching Bayesian Statistics To Intelligence Analysts: Lessons Learned
The Community must develop and integrate into regular use new toolsthat can assist analysts in filtering and correlating the vast quantities of information that threaten to overwhelm the analytic process...—Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United StatesRegarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (The WMD Report)1Unlike the other social sciences and, particularly, the physical sciences, where scientists get to choose the questions they…
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