G C Mora
Biographic Data
| ID | 54270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G C Mora |
| GIVEN NAMES | G C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mora |
| SIGNATURE | MORA G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7763-7822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What Lies between the Poles? Selective Uncertainty and Occluded Bias in Immigration Attitudes in California
Although much extreme discourse is found at the poles, we still know little about how individuals in the center make sense of immigration as 'complicated' and even 'too complex' to make sense of. Such issues are important to address if we are to better understand the contemporary landscape of bias and belonging and the character of attitudes in the middle. We examine the issue by drawing on a unique survey of Californians and illustrative, linked…
How many Latino studies programs are there? Tracking departmental growth, stagnation, and invisibility 1960–2020
This study provides the first systematic analysis of the founding and growth of Latino studies programs across the country. Drawing on a unique data set compiled from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we show that even though Latinos now constitute close to 20% of the US population, less than 4% of all four-year colleges and universities have an established Latino studies program. Most Latino studies programs/departments in exi…
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during Covid-19
Drawing on a unique survey dataset of Californians collected during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines how race and ideology shape perceptions of risk. Specifically, we position the pandemic as an 'unsettled time' (Swidler 1986) and examine how different racialized groups made sense of the economic and health risks posed during this unprecedented period. We find that even when accounting for economic precarity and po…
Who Identifies as “Latinx”? The Generational Politics of Ethnoracial Labels
Over the past 5 years, the “Latinx” label has become increasingly popular within academia, politics, and social media. Yet, little is known about who has adopted the term at this relatively early stage and how it might be interpreted. Drawing on a unique data set of US-born Californians, as well as Latina/o/x Studies insight, this paper provides the first academic survey results on “Latinx” identification. We find that close to 25 percent of resp…
Has Pandemic Threat Stoked Xenophobia? How Covid‐19 Influences California Voters’ Attitudes toward Diversity and Immigration
Sociological theory and historical precedent suggest that pandemics engender scapegoating of outgroups, but fail to specify how the ethnoracial boundaries defining outgroups are drawn. Using a survey experiment that primed half of the respondents (California registered voters) with questions about COVID‐19 during April 2020, we ask how the pandemic influenced attitudes toward immigration, diversity and affect toward Asian Americans. In the aggreg…
Election 2020
This article reviews predictions made in an earlier piece entitled “Anti‐Blackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence from California” (Mora and Paschel 2020)
Antiblackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence From California
Drawing on data from a novel survey of Californians, this article examines the relationship between anti‐immigrant resentment and antiblackness. Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research on anti‐immigrant resentment, as well as a steady growth in public opinion literature on antiblack bias. Nonetheless, there are almost no studies that examine the relationship between these types of attitudes. Using two different mea…
Local context, network ties, and organisational autonomy: Latino civic life in Barcelona and Madrid compared
How does local context shape immigrant civic life? This article addresses the question by comparing Latino associations in Madrid and Barcelona, cities in Spain with comparable rates of immigration and civic organising. Drawing on 63 interviews with Latino leaders and stakeholders, I show that three contextual factors – municipal funding priorities, overcrowding, and local political history – promote network configurations that, in turn, influenc…
Pandemic Politics: Political Worldviews and Covid-19 Beliefs and Practices in an Unsettled Time
How do individuals form new health beliefs and act in the context of unprecedented uncertainty? Drawing on a unique data set of registered California voters collected a month into stay-at-home orders that allows for an individual-level analysis, we examine the impact of political worldviews on trust in public health institutions and beliefs about the threat of COVID-19, effective methods for preventing the disease, and leaving home during the pan…
Postcolonialism, Racial Political Fields, and Panethnicity: A Comparison of Early 'Asian American' and 'Hispanic' Movements
Recent work has called for sociologists to incorporate postcolonial theory into their toolkits to better understand the mechanics of race in the United States. The authors answer this call by showing how postcolonial and field theories can be bridged to explain how movements of the 1970s developed distinct visions of panethnicity. Drawing on published case studies, as well as a unique data set of pioneering 'Asian American' and 'Hispanic' movemen…
America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
Boundary Articulation and Emergent Identities: Asian and Hispanic Panethnicity in Comparison 1970-1980
This article examines how minority leaders articulate emergent group boundaries. We provide the first systematic comparison of the Asian and Hispanic panethnic movements of the 1970s, assessing how pioneering publications developed claims about panethnicity before the identities became widely institutionalized. The findings indicate that despite referring to communities with different histories, discussions about Asian and Hispanic panethnicity d…
Latinos, Race, and the American Future: A Response to Richard Alba’s “The Likely Persistence of a White Majority”
Different Contexts and Trends: Latina Immigrant Fertility in the US and Spain
This article provides the first cross‐national assessment of Latina immigrant fertility trends. Specifically, we compare Ecuadorian women in Spain (EiS) to Mexican women in the United States (Mi US ). We focus on these two groups because they (1) have similar socio‐economic profiles and (2) are the largest Latina subgroups in their respective host countries. We show that since 2001, the fertility rate of EiS has declined substantially more than t…
Political Parties, Immigration, and Panethnicity: Latino Coalitions in Barcelona
Most studies on panethnicity have focused on the United States, leaving researchers with little understanding of how it becomes institutionalized in areas with different racial politics and histories. Drawing on fifty-two in-depth interviews with Latin American immigrant leaders, political party operatives, and bureaucrats, in addition to fourteen weeks of participant observation, I examine the establishment of panethnic Latino coalitions in the …
Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American
Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990
Research on racial/ethnic categorization provides insight on how broad processes, such as migration trends or political shifts, precede the establishment of new categories, but does not detail the struggles and compromises that emerge between state and non-state actors. As a result, we know little about why new census categories are defined in certain ways or how they become legitimated. This article addresses this gap by using an organizational …
Wimmer, Andreas: Ethnic Boundary Making. Institutions, Power, Networks
Anthropos , Seite 353 - 354
Religion and the organizational context of immigrant civic engagement: Mexican Catholicism in the USA
This article complements emerging research on immigrant civic participation by examining how Catholic churches facilitate volunteer and political participation among first-generation Mexican immigrants. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic data, it identifies two reinforcing mechanisms that churches foster: small groups and organizational links. Specifically, small groups, like prayer groups, provide immigrants with intimate contexts for buildi…
The trouble with unity: Latino politics and the creation of identity by Cristina Beltran
Regulating immigrant media and instituting ethnic boundaries – The FCC and Spanish-language television: 1960–1990
No Margin for Error and Its Implications for Future Research
Marketing the 'health and wealth gospel' across national borders; evidence from Brazil and the United States
Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990
Research on racial/ethnic categorization provides insight on how broad processes, such as migration trends or political shifts, precede the establishment of new categories, but does not detail the struggles and compromises that emerge between state and non-state actors. As a result, we know little about why new census categories are defined in certain ways or how they become legitimated. This article addresses this gap by using an organizational …
Pandemic Politics: Political Worldviews and Covid-19 Beliefs and Practices in an Unsettled Time
How do individuals form new health beliefs and act in the context of unprecedented uncertainty? Drawing on a unique data set of registered California voters collected a month into stay-at-home orders that allows for an individual-level analysis, we examine the impact of political worldviews on trust in public health institutions and beliefs about the threat of COVID-19, effective methods for preventing the disease, and leaving home during the pan…
Religion and the organizational context of immigrant civic engagement: Mexican Catholicism in the USA
This article complements emerging research on immigrant civic participation by examining how Catholic churches facilitate volunteer and political participation among first-generation Mexican immigrants. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic data, it identifies two reinforcing mechanisms that churches foster: small groups and organizational links. Specifically, small groups, like prayer groups, provide immigrants with intimate contexts for buildi…
Has Pandemic Threat Stoked Xenophobia? How Covid‐19 Influences California Voters’ Attitudes toward Diversity and Immigration
Sociological theory and historical precedent suggest that pandemics engender scapegoating of outgroups, but fail to specify how the ethnoracial boundaries defining outgroups are drawn. Using a survey experiment that primed half of the respondents (California registered voters) with questions about COVID‐19 during April 2020, we ask how the pandemic influenced attitudes toward immigration, diversity and affect toward Asian Americans. In the aggreg…
Antiblackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence From California
Drawing on data from a novel survey of Californians, this article examines the relationship between anti‐immigrant resentment and antiblackness. Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research on anti‐immigrant resentment, as well as a steady growth in public opinion literature on antiblack bias. Nonetheless, there are almost no studies that examine the relationship between these types of attitudes. Using two different mea…
Postcolonialism, Racial Political Fields, and Panethnicity: A Comparison of Early 'Asian American' and 'Hispanic' Movements
Recent work has called for sociologists to incorporate postcolonial theory into their toolkits to better understand the mechanics of race in the United States. The authors answer this call by showing how postcolonial and field theories can be bridged to explain how movements of the 1970s developed distinct visions of panethnicity. Drawing on published case studies, as well as a unique data set of pioneering 'Asian American' and 'Hispanic' movemen…
Marketing the 'health and wealth gospel' across national borders; evidence from Brazil and the United States
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during Covid-19
Drawing on a unique survey dataset of Californians collected during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines how race and ideology shape perceptions of risk. Specifically, we position the pandemic as an 'unsettled time' (Swidler 1986) and examine how different racialized groups made sense of the economic and health risks posed during this unprecedented period. We find that even when accounting for economic precarity and po…
Different Contexts and Trends: Latina Immigrant Fertility in the US and Spain
This article provides the first cross‐national assessment of Latina immigrant fertility trends. Specifically, we compare Ecuadorian women in Spain (EiS) to Mexican women in the United States (Mi US ). We focus on these two groups because they (1) have similar socio‐economic profiles and (2) are the largest Latina subgroups in their respective host countries. We show that since 2001, the fertility rate of EiS has declined substantially more than t…
Regulating immigrant media and instituting ethnic boundaries – The FCC and Spanish-language television: 1960–1990
Boundary Articulation and Emergent Identities: Asian and Hispanic Panethnicity in Comparison 1970-1980
This article examines how minority leaders articulate emergent group boundaries. We provide the first systematic comparison of the Asian and Hispanic panethnic movements of the 1970s, assessing how pioneering publications developed claims about panethnicity before the identities became widely institutionalized. The findings indicate that despite referring to communities with different histories, discussions about Asian and Hispanic panethnicity d…
How many Latino studies programs are there? Tracking departmental growth, stagnation, and invisibility 1960–2020
This study provides the first systematic analysis of the founding and growth of Latino studies programs across the country. Drawing on a unique data set compiled from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we show that even though Latinos now constitute close to 20% of the US population, less than 4% of all four-year colleges and universities have an established Latino studies program. Most Latino studies programs/departments in exi…
No Margin for Error and Its Implications for Future Research
Marketing the 'health and wealth gospel' across national borders; evidence from Brazil and the United States
Regulating immigrant media and instituting ethnic boundaries – The FCC and Spanish-language television: 1960–1990
The trouble with unity: Latino politics and the creation of identity by Cristina Beltran
Religion and the organizational context of immigrant civic engagement: Mexican Catholicism in the USA
This article complements emerging research on immigrant civic participation by examining how Catholic churches facilitate volunteer and political participation among first-generation Mexican immigrants. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic data, it identifies two reinforcing mechanisms that churches foster: small groups and organizational links. Specifically, small groups, like prayer groups, provide immigrants with intimate contexts for buildi…
Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American
Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990
Research on racial/ethnic categorization provides insight on how broad processes, such as migration trends or political shifts, precede the establishment of new categories, but does not detail the struggles and compromises that emerge between state and non-state actors. As a result, we know little about why new census categories are defined in certain ways or how they become legitimated. This article addresses this gap by using an organizational …
Wimmer, Andreas: Ethnic Boundary Making. Institutions, Power, Networks
Anthropos , Seite 353 - 354
Latinos, Race, and the American Future: A Response to Richard Alba’s “The Likely Persistence of a White Majority”
Different Contexts and Trends: Latina Immigrant Fertility in the US and Spain
This article provides the first cross‐national assessment of Latina immigrant fertility trends. Specifically, we compare Ecuadorian women in Spain (EiS) to Mexican women in the United States (Mi US ). We focus on these two groups because they (1) have similar socio‐economic profiles and (2) are the largest Latina subgroups in their respective host countries. We show that since 2001, the fertility rate of EiS has declined substantially more than t…
Political Parties, Immigration, and Panethnicity: Latino Coalitions in Barcelona
Most studies on panethnicity have focused on the United States, leaving researchers with little understanding of how it becomes institutionalized in areas with different racial politics and histories. Drawing on fifty-two in-depth interviews with Latin American immigrant leaders, political party operatives, and bureaucrats, in addition to fourteen weeks of participant observation, I examine the establishment of panethnic Latino coalitions in the …
America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
Boundary Articulation and Emergent Identities: Asian and Hispanic Panethnicity in Comparison 1970-1980
This article examines how minority leaders articulate emergent group boundaries. We provide the first systematic comparison of the Asian and Hispanic panethnic movements of the 1970s, assessing how pioneering publications developed claims about panethnicity before the identities became widely institutionalized. The findings indicate that despite referring to communities with different histories, discussions about Asian and Hispanic panethnicity d…
Antiblackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence From California
Drawing on data from a novel survey of Californians, this article examines the relationship between anti‐immigrant resentment and antiblackness. Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research on anti‐immigrant resentment, as well as a steady growth in public opinion literature on antiblack bias. Nonetheless, there are almost no studies that examine the relationship between these types of attitudes. Using two different mea…
Local context, network ties, and organisational autonomy: Latino civic life in Barcelona and Madrid compared
How does local context shape immigrant civic life? This article addresses the question by comparing Latino associations in Madrid and Barcelona, cities in Spain with comparable rates of immigration and civic organising. Drawing on 63 interviews with Latino leaders and stakeholders, I show that three contextual factors – municipal funding priorities, overcrowding, and local political history – promote network configurations that, in turn, influenc…
Pandemic Politics: Political Worldviews and Covid-19 Beliefs and Practices in an Unsettled Time
How do individuals form new health beliefs and act in the context of unprecedented uncertainty? Drawing on a unique data set of registered California voters collected a month into stay-at-home orders that allows for an individual-level analysis, we examine the impact of political worldviews on trust in public health institutions and beliefs about the threat of COVID-19, effective methods for preventing the disease, and leaving home during the pan…
Postcolonialism, Racial Political Fields, and Panethnicity: A Comparison of Early 'Asian American' and 'Hispanic' Movements
Recent work has called for sociologists to incorporate postcolonial theory into their toolkits to better understand the mechanics of race in the United States. The authors answer this call by showing how postcolonial and field theories can be bridged to explain how movements of the 1970s developed distinct visions of panethnicity. Drawing on published case studies, as well as a unique data set of pioneering 'Asian American' and 'Hispanic' movemen…
Has Pandemic Threat Stoked Xenophobia? How Covid‐19 Influences California Voters’ Attitudes toward Diversity and Immigration
Sociological theory and historical precedent suggest that pandemics engender scapegoating of outgroups, but fail to specify how the ethnoracial boundaries defining outgroups are drawn. Using a survey experiment that primed half of the respondents (California registered voters) with questions about COVID‐19 during April 2020, we ask how the pandemic influenced attitudes toward immigration, diversity and affect toward Asian Americans. In the aggreg…
Election 2020
This article reviews predictions made in an earlier piece entitled “Anti‐Blackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence from California” (Mora and Paschel 2020)
Who Identifies as “Latinx”? The Generational Politics of Ethnoracial Labels
Over the past 5 years, the “Latinx” label has become increasingly popular within academia, politics, and social media. Yet, little is known about who has adopted the term at this relatively early stage and how it might be interpreted. Drawing on a unique data set of US-born Californians, as well as Latina/o/x Studies insight, this paper provides the first academic survey results on “Latinx” identification. We find that close to 25 percent of resp…
How many Latino studies programs are there? Tracking departmental growth, stagnation, and invisibility 1960–2020
This study provides the first systematic analysis of the founding and growth of Latino studies programs across the country. Drawing on a unique data set compiled from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we show that even though Latinos now constitute close to 20% of the US population, less than 4% of all four-year colleges and universities have an established Latino studies program. Most Latino studies programs/departments in exi…
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during Covid-19
Drawing on a unique survey dataset of Californians collected during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines how race and ideology shape perceptions of risk. Specifically, we position the pandemic as an 'unsettled time' (Swidler 1986) and examine how different racialized groups made sense of the economic and health risks posed during this unprecedented period. We find that even when accounting for economic precarity and po…
What Lies between the Poles? Selective Uncertainty and Occluded Bias in Immigration Attitudes in California
Although much extreme discourse is found at the poles, we still know little about how individuals in the center make sense of immigration as 'complicated' and even 'too complex' to make sense of. Such issues are important to address if we are to better understand the contemporary landscape of bias and belonging and the character of attitudes in the middle. We examine the issue by drawing on a unique survey of Californians and illustrative, linked…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (8 works)