C A Sue
Biographic Data
| ID | 47311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C A Sue |
| GIVEN NAMES | C A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sue |
| SIGNATURE | SUE C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2395-9209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A relational approach to comparisons of race and racism in the Americas and beyond
Studies of race in the Americas have been driven by explicit or implicit nation-based comparisons. This contrastive approach to comparison has enhanced our understanding of differences across national racial systems and supported challenges to racism. However, by treating specific cases as separate bounded units, notable primarily for their differences, this approach has produced blind spots, including the neglect of historical connections, paral…
New Concepts for Immigrant Integration and Race/Ethnicity Theorizing
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…
Intensive Naming
Selecting a name for a child represents an important symbolic and cultural decision. As social labels, names serve as identity markers that influence how their bearers are perceived and treated. Sociologists are increasingly taking advantage of the study of names, with most adopting a quantitative approach and analyzing names as outcomes. Less is known about the social meanings surrounding names and motivations behind naming decisions, the examin…
Estimating the Racial Wealth Gap in Brazil
Brazil is at the forefront of research and policies aimed at redressing racial inequality in Latin America. However, there is a paucity of scholarship on Brazilian racial inequality in wealth. The lack of research is largely a by-product of data limitations. In this study, we analyze the best publicly available data on various indicators of wealth, controlling for multiple factors. We find a tiered system with White households having the most wea…
Black Disadvantage or Advantage? Misalignment between State and Popular Understandings of Blackness in Mexico
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…
Couple Identity Work
The study of baby naming is valuable for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in families. Often treated as an event, baby naming also represents an important social and cultural process that can reveal gendered dynamics in couple decision-making. Baby naming, which represents a highly visible and symbolic family milestone, is a strategic site in which to examine how couple identities are constructed-for self, partner, and others-thr…
Is Mexico beyond mestizaje ? Blackness, race mixture, and discrimination
In the 1980s and 1990s, a wave of multiculturalism swept across Latin America, following long-standing ideologies of mestizaje which glorified the region’s biological and cultural mixture and asserted that such mixture precluded the existence of racism. A decade or so later, countries in the region enacted another set of reforms focused on combatting ethnoracial discrimination and inequality. Whereas many view these changes as indicating the down…
Colorblind Spots in Qualitative Methods Training
Academia, like many other institutions, is experiencing a racial reckoning. As part of this reckoning, members of institutions of higher education are reflecting on how their structures and cultures reproduce racial inequality and how to disrupt the cycle. One aspect of this conversation that has escaped scrutiny has been methodological training, which can be central to the reproduction of inequality via the marginalization of researchers of colo…
Beyond Money Whitening
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people's socioeconomic status. In both Latin America and the United States, someone with higher SES is more likely to be classified as White than others of similar appearance, a pattern epitomized by the expression "money whitens." However, recent studies of the effect of SES on racial classifications …
Understanding Inequality
How people understand ethnoracial inequality, or their stratification beliefs, is an important concern for social scientists. Stratification beliefs can be highly influential in the development of individuals’ political attitudes and support for social policies. Despite this, research on stratification beliefs is limited in a number of ways. First, whereas much attention has been given to Whites’, and to some degree Blacks’, stratification belief…
Black and Indigenous Inequality in Mexico
In recent decades, an increasing number of Latin American countries have included ethnoracial questions on their censuses, giving rise to unprecedented data on monoracial and multiracial forms of classification. In Mexico, the government launched a count of its black population for the first time in the nation’s history in 2015, in addition to its long-standing practice of enumerating its indigenous population. Most recently in 2018, it conducted…
Durable Ethnicity
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…
U.S. racial and ethnic relations in the twenty-first century
In this response to Valdez and Golash-Boza's article, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations in the twenty-first century, I commend the authors for raising critical issues about the traditional lack of integration of race and ethnicity paradigms. However, I argue that, in an effort to make their claim about the distinction between the ethnicity and race paradigms, they end up oversimplifying some of the literature and overlook the ways in which race an…
Unforeseen Roads to Antiracism
Hegemony and Silence
State-sponsored silences cloak topics, such as inequality, that are of considerable social significance. However, hegemonic processes protecting current power structures drive these subjects underground, making them resilient and resistant to exposure. This poses both methodological and epistemological dilemmas. The social forces that perpetuate these silences do not yield easily to researchers; scholars thus know little about the complex hegemon…
Land of the Cosmic Race
More than 'A Hidden Race
In the PBS film series, Black in Latin America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
It was only a joke
In Mexico and Peru, denigrating racial humour about blacks and indigenous populations is prolific, despite the existence of colour-blind national ideologies (which minimize or negate the existence of racism) and social norms that silence various forms of race talk. This article draws on interviews and participant observation from these two countries to analyse the popular uses and interpretations of racial humour, and their consequences for racia…
Raceblindness in Mexico
The demographic make‐up of US public schools indicates an increasing divergence between the racial background of teachers and that of their students: Whites represent approximately 90% of all public school teachers whereas 40% of students are of color. Further complicating the situation is the fact that many of the students of color are first‐generation immigrants. The US education system is struggling to adapt to the changing nature of America’s…
Comparative racisms
There has been extensive debate about the putative imperial dimensions of critical race studies in Latin America. The concern is that US racial discourses, identities and anti-racist strategies are being incorrectly applied to, if not forced upon, Latin America. Those who disagree with this position, including ourselves, argue that it is legitimate to take insights and understandings gleaned in the USA as tools for understanding and challenging r…
Legacies of Race
Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico
Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness in Afro-Latin American countries, much less attention has been paid to how blackness functions in mestizo American countries. Furthermore, in mestizo America, the theoretical emphasis has oftentimes been placed on the mestizo/Indian divide, leaving no co…
Race Mixture
In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies. In doing so, we stress a social constructivist…
An assessment of the Latin Americanization thesis
In 2004, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva published an article in which he proposed a provocative thesis - he argued that the US system of race is beginning to resemble that of Latin America. Despite the attention received from the US side, there has been no response from scholars of race in Latin America. This article is a critical reply to Bonilla-Silva's Latin Americanization thesis. In the article, I move the debate forward by introducing a Latin Americ…
Assimilation and Gender in Naming
This article examines the naming practices of Hispanic parents who gave birth to children in Los Angeles County in 1995. The authors find that greater exposure to U.S. culture increases the chances of naming a child in English. However, they find that by giving children English names that are translatable into Spanish, U.S.‐born Hispanic parents are able simultaneously to assimilate while maintaining a connection to their ethnic origins. In addit…
Race Mixture
In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies. In doing so, we stress a social constructivist…
It was only a joke
In Mexico and Peru, denigrating racial humour about blacks and indigenous populations is prolific, despite the existence of colour-blind national ideologies (which minimize or negate the existence of racism) and social norms that silence various forms of race talk. This article draws on interviews and participant observation from these two countries to analyse the popular uses and interpretations of racial humour, and their consequences for racia…
Assimilation and Gender in Naming
This article examines the naming practices of Hispanic parents who gave birth to children in Los Angeles County in 1995. The authors find that greater exposure to U.S. culture increases the chances of naming a child in English. However, they find that by giving children English names that are translatable into Spanish, U.S.‐born Hispanic parents are able simultaneously to assimilate while maintaining a connection to their ethnic origins. In addit…
An assessment of the Latin Americanization thesis
In 2004, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva published an article in which he proposed a provocative thesis - he argued that the US system of race is beginning to resemble that of Latin America. Despite the attention received from the US side, there has been no response from scholars of race in Latin America. This article is a critical reply to Bonilla-Silva's Latin Americanization thesis. In the article, I move the debate forward by introducing a Latin Americ…
Comparative racisms
There has been extensive debate about the putative imperial dimensions of critical race studies in Latin America. The concern is that US racial discourses, identities and anti-racist strategies are being incorrectly applied to, if not forced upon, Latin America. Those who disagree with this position, including ourselves, argue that it is legitimate to take insights and understandings gleaned in the USA as tools for understanding and challenging r…
Beyond Money Whitening
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people's socioeconomic status. In both Latin America and the United States, someone with higher SES is more likely to be classified as White than others of similar appearance, a pattern epitomized by the expression "money whitens." However, recent studies of the effect of SES on racial classifications …
Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico
Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness in Afro-Latin American countries, much less attention has been paid to how blackness functions in mestizo American countries. Furthermore, in mestizo America, the theoretical emphasis has oftentimes been placed on the mestizo/Indian divide, leaving no co…
Hegemony and Silence
State-sponsored silences cloak topics, such as inequality, that are of considerable social significance. However, hegemonic processes protecting current power structures drive these subjects underground, making them resilient and resistant to exposure. This poses both methodological and epistemological dilemmas. The social forces that perpetuate these silences do not yield easily to researchers; scholars thus know little about the complex hegemon…
Raceblindness in Mexico
The demographic make‐up of US public schools indicates an increasing divergence between the racial background of teachers and that of their students: Whites represent approximately 90% of all public school teachers whereas 40% of students are of color. Further complicating the situation is the fact that many of the students of color are first‐generation immigrants. The US education system is struggling to adapt to the changing nature of America’s…
Couple Identity Work
The study of baby naming is valuable for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in families. Often treated as an event, baby naming also represents an important social and cultural process that can reveal gendered dynamics in couple decision-making. Baby naming, which represents a highly visible and symbolic family milestone, is a strategic site in which to examine how couple identities are constructed-for self, partner, and others-thr…
U.S. racial and ethnic relations in the twenty-first century
In this response to Valdez and Golash-Boza's article, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations in the twenty-first century, I commend the authors for raising critical issues about the traditional lack of integration of race and ethnicity paradigms. However, I argue that, in an effort to make their claim about the distinction between the ethnicity and race paradigms, they end up oversimplifying some of the literature and overlook the ways in which race an…
Black Disadvantage or Advantage? Misalignment between State and Popular Understandings of Blackness in Mexico
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…
More than 'A Hidden Race
In the PBS film series, Black in Latin America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Intensive Naming
Selecting a name for a child represents an important symbolic and cultural decision. As social labels, names serve as identity markers that influence how their bearers are perceived and treated. Sociologists are increasingly taking advantage of the study of names, with most adopting a quantitative approach and analyzing names as outcomes. Less is known about the social meanings surrounding names and motivations behind naming decisions, the examin…
Assimilation and Gender in Naming
This article examines the naming practices of Hispanic parents who gave birth to children in Los Angeles County in 1995. The authors find that greater exposure to U.S. culture increases the chances of naming a child in English. However, they find that by giving children English names that are translatable into Spanish, U.S.‐born Hispanic parents are able simultaneously to assimilate while maintaining a connection to their ethnic origins. In addit…
Race Mixture
In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies. In doing so, we stress a social constructivist…
An assessment of the Latin Americanization thesis
In 2004, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva published an article in which he proposed a provocative thesis - he argued that the US system of race is beginning to resemble that of Latin America. Despite the attention received from the US side, there has been no response from scholars of race in Latin America. This article is a critical reply to Bonilla-Silva's Latin Americanization thesis. In the article, I move the debate forward by introducing a Latin Americ…
Legacies of Race
Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico
Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness in Afro-Latin American countries, much less attention has been paid to how blackness functions in mestizo American countries. Furthermore, in mestizo America, the theoretical emphasis has oftentimes been placed on the mestizo/Indian divide, leaving no co…
Raceblindness in Mexico
The demographic make‐up of US public schools indicates an increasing divergence between the racial background of teachers and that of their students: Whites represent approximately 90% of all public school teachers whereas 40% of students are of color. Further complicating the situation is the fact that many of the students of color are first‐generation immigrants. The US education system is struggling to adapt to the changing nature of America’s…
Comparative racisms
There has been extensive debate about the putative imperial dimensions of critical race studies in Latin America. The concern is that US racial discourses, identities and anti-racist strategies are being incorrectly applied to, if not forced upon, Latin America. Those who disagree with this position, including ourselves, argue that it is legitimate to take insights and understandings gleaned in the USA as tools for understanding and challenging r…
Land of the Cosmic Race
More than 'A Hidden Race
In the PBS film series, Black in Latin America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
It was only a joke
In Mexico and Peru, denigrating racial humour about blacks and indigenous populations is prolific, despite the existence of colour-blind national ideologies (which minimize or negate the existence of racism) and social norms that silence various forms of race talk. This article draws on interviews and participant observation from these two countries to analyse the popular uses and interpretations of racial humour, and their consequences for racia…
Unforeseen Roads to Antiracism
Hegemony and Silence
State-sponsored silences cloak topics, such as inequality, that are of considerable social significance. However, hegemonic processes protecting current power structures drive these subjects underground, making them resilient and resistant to exposure. This poses both methodological and epistemological dilemmas. The social forces that perpetuate these silences do not yield easily to researchers; scholars thus know little about the complex hegemon…
U.S. racial and ethnic relations in the twenty-first century
In this response to Valdez and Golash-Boza's article, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations in the twenty-first century, I commend the authors for raising critical issues about the traditional lack of integration of race and ethnicity paradigms. However, I argue that, in an effort to make their claim about the distinction between the ethnicity and race paradigms, they end up oversimplifying some of the literature and overlook the ways in which race an…
Durable Ethnicity
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…
Understanding Inequality
How people understand ethnoracial inequality, or their stratification beliefs, is an important concern for social scientists. Stratification beliefs can be highly influential in the development of individuals’ political attitudes and support for social policies. Despite this, research on stratification beliefs is limited in a number of ways. First, whereas much attention has been given to Whites’, and to some degree Blacks’, stratification belief…
Black and Indigenous Inequality in Mexico
In recent decades, an increasing number of Latin American countries have included ethnoracial questions on their censuses, giving rise to unprecedented data on monoracial and multiracial forms of classification. In Mexico, the government launched a count of its black population for the first time in the nation’s history in 2015, in addition to its long-standing practice of enumerating its indigenous population. Most recently in 2018, it conducted…
Colorblind Spots in Qualitative Methods Training
Academia, like many other institutions, is experiencing a racial reckoning. As part of this reckoning, members of institutions of higher education are reflecting on how their structures and cultures reproduce racial inequality and how to disrupt the cycle. One aspect of this conversation that has escaped scrutiny has been methodological training, which can be central to the reproduction of inequality via the marginalization of researchers of colo…
Beyond Money Whitening
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people's socioeconomic status. In both Latin America and the United States, someone with higher SES is more likely to be classified as White than others of similar appearance, a pattern epitomized by the expression "money whitens." However, recent studies of the effect of SES on racial classifications …
Is Mexico beyond mestizaje ? Blackness, race mixture, and discrimination
In the 1980s and 1990s, a wave of multiculturalism swept across Latin America, following long-standing ideologies of mestizaje which glorified the region’s biological and cultural mixture and asserted that such mixture precluded the existence of racism. A decade or so later, countries in the region enacted another set of reforms focused on combatting ethnoracial discrimination and inequality. Whereas many view these changes as indicating the down…
Estimating the Racial Wealth Gap in Brazil
Brazil is at the forefront of research and policies aimed at redressing racial inequality in Latin America. However, there is a paucity of scholarship on Brazilian racial inequality in wealth. The lack of research is largely a by-product of data limitations. In this study, we analyze the best publicly available data on various indicators of wealth, controlling for multiple factors. We find a tiered system with White households having the most wea…
Black Disadvantage or Advantage? Misalignment between State and Popular Understandings of Blackness in Mexico
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…
Couple Identity Work
The study of baby naming is valuable for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in families. Often treated as an event, baby naming also represents an important social and cultural process that can reveal gendered dynamics in couple decision-making. Baby naming, which represents a highly visible and symbolic family milestone, is a strategic site in which to examine how couple identities are constructed-for self, partner, and others-thr…
Intensive Naming
Selecting a name for a child represents an important symbolic and cultural decision. As social labels, names serve as identity markers that influence how their bearers are perceived and treated. Sociologists are increasingly taking advantage of the study of names, with most adopting a quantitative approach and analyzing names as outcomes. Less is known about the social meanings surrounding names and motivations behind naming decisions, the examin…
A relational approach to comparisons of race and racism in the Americas and beyond
Studies of race in the Americas have been driven by explicit or implicit nation-based comparisons. This contrastive approach to comparison has enhanced our understanding of differences across national racial systems and supported challenges to racism. However, by treating specific cases as separate bounded units, notable primarily for their differences, this approach has produced blind spots, including the neglect of historical connections, paral…
New Concepts for Immigrant Integration and Race/Ethnicity Theorizing
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…
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (11 works) · Racism (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Race (biology (8 works)