Ann Morning
Biographic Data
| ID | 90230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Morning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Morning |
| SIGNATURE | MORNING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2798-6984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 549 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The many faces of race: Toward a global cultural sociology of co-descent
Race is conceptualized and articulated differently at various times and in various places. How then can sociologists of race draw meaningful comparisons across diverse cultural settings (or time periods)? This article proposes two strategies for cross-national scholarship on race. First, we must understand that race is just one member of a broader family of classifications grounded in shared or co-descent—and that it has different connotations in…
Ancestry reimagined: Dismantling the myth of genetic ethnicities
Seeing and knowing others
Repositioning, not replacing, race: The Case for Concepts of Descent-Based Difference
In this response to the very thoughtful critiques of our book, An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States, we advocate for a comparative sociological examination of race that, while acknowledging and documenting its enduring centrality, also explores alternative notions of ancestry-based distinction. The framework that we propose for examining the full range of such "concepts of descent-based difference," rather than obscuring s…
Regimes beyond the One-Drop Rule: New Models of Multiracial Identity
The racial classification of mixed-race people has often been presumed to follow hypo- or hyperdescent rules, where they were assigned to either their lower- or higher-status monoracial ancestor group. This simple framework, however, does not capture actual patterns of self-identification in contemporary societies with multiple racialized groups and numerous mixed-race combinations. Elaborating on previous concepts of multiracial classification r…
Et vous pensiez que nous avions laissé tout cela derrière nous: La race biologique fait son retour dans les sciences sociales
Récemment, certains sociologues ont soutenu dans des revues prestigieuses que les catégories raciales étaient liées à des clusters génétiquement distincts dans la population humaine. Ils proposent de théoriser la race en tant que système de catégorisation issu d’une construction sociale et lié à des groupes biologiques au sein de notre espèce. Leurs travaux ne relatent cependant pas dans quelle mesure les clusters génétiques statistiquement infér…
Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States
Multiracial self-identification is frequently portrayed as a disproportionately female tendency, but previous research has not probed the conditions under which this relationship might occur. Using the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults, we offer a more comprehensive analysis that considers gender differences at two distinct stages: reporting multiple races in one's ancestry and selecting multiple races to describe oneself. We also examine sel…
Scholarly Debates and Their Societal Backdrops
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Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination
Multiracials and Civil Rights is a jewel. Relatively brief and always engaging, it presents a well-defined and well-motivated inquiry that simultaneously manages to speak to a much broader issue of deep importance. While legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández persuasively answers the immediate question of how multiracial people’s claims of racial discrimination are positioned and adjudicated in U.S. courts, she also provides real food for thought a…
Socially Desirable Reporting and the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race
In recent decades, dramatic developments in genetics research have begun to transform not only the practice of medicine but also conceptions of the social world. In the media, in popular culture, and in everyday conversation, Americans routinely link genetics to individual behavior and social outcomes. At the same time, some social researchers contend that biological definitions of race have lost ground in the United States over the last fifty ye…
The Generational Locus of Multiraciality and Its Implications for Racial Self-Identification
Estimates of the size of the multiracial population in the United States depend on what prompts people to report multiple races on censuses and surveys. We use data from the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults to explore how racial self-identification is shaped by the generational locus of an individual's multiracial ancestry-that is, the place in one's family tree where the earliest interracial union appears. We develop the theoretical rationa…
Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership
What Brubaker [2016. "The Dolezal Affair: Race, Gender, and the Micropolitics of Identity." Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (3): 414-448] referred to in these pages as "the Dolezal affair", though widely and intensely scrutinized, was only one example of a broader series of recent public controversies over an individual's "true" racial identity. This article argues that in the early-twenty-first century, claims of race-group membership are being com…
Pour une sociologie de la conceptualisation raciale au 21ème siècle
Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that is, notions of what race is, how races differ, and the origins of race. This article outlines key empirical, methodological and theoretical considerations for a research agenda on racial conceptualization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than 5…
National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America
Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective: A Cross-National Survey of the 2000 Census Round
Many if not most countries around the world categorize their inhabitants by race, ethnicity and/or national origins when it comes time to conduct a census. In an unpublished survey of census questionnaires, the United Nations found that 65 % enumerated their populations by national or ethnic group (United Nations Statistics Division 2003). However, this statistic encompasses a wide diversity of approaches to ethnic classification, as evinced by t…
Scientific Racism Redux?the Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea: A Troublesome Inheritance Indeed
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Does Genomics Challenge the Social Construction of Race
Shiao, Bode, Beyer, and Selvig argue that the theory of race as a social construct should be revisited in light of recent genetic research, which they interpret as demonstrating that human biological variation is patterned in 'clinal classes' that are homologous to races. In this reply, I examine both their claims and the genetics literature they cite, concluding that not only does constructivist theory already accommodate the contemporary study …
And you thought we had moved beyond all that: Biological Race Returns to the Social Sciences
Recently, sociologists have argued in high-profile journals that racial categories are linked to genetically distinct clusters within the human population. They propose theorizing race as a socially constructed categorization system that is related to biological groupings within our species. This work overlooks, however, the extent to which statistically inferred genetic clusters are themselves socially constructed, making it impossible to juxtap…
The 21 st Century is Not The 19 th - Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft. The Soul of Inequality in American Life (London & New York: (Verso Books, 2012)
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Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
What do Americans think "race" means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates, Morning explores different concepti…
A French Perspective On American Racial Categories - Paul Schor, Compter et classer: Histoire des recensements américains (Paris, Éditions ehess, 2009)
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Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification
Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century
Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Get access Ann Morning Ann Morning New York University Direct correspondence to Ann Morning, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette St., Room 4118, New York, NY 10012. Tel: (212) 992-9569. Fax: (212) 995-4140. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 87, Is…
Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line
Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective: A Cross-National Survey of the 2000 Census Round
Many if not most countries around the world categorize their inhabitants by race, ethnicity and/or national origins when it comes time to conduct a census. In an unpublished survey of census questionnaires, the United Nations found that 65 % enumerated their populations by national or ethnic group (United Nations Statistics Division 2003). However, this statistic encompasses a wide diversity of approaches to ethnic classification, as evinced by t…
Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification
Particular universalisms: North African immigrants respond to French racism
This article examines how ordinary victims of racism rebut racist beliefs communicated to them by the mass media and encountered in daily life. We describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs. We argue that while French anti-racist rhetorics, both elite and popul…
Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century
Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Get access Ann Morning Ann Morning New York University Direct correspondence to Ann Morning, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette St., Room 4118, New York, NY 10012. Tel: (212) 992-9569. Fax: (212) 995-4140. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 87, Is…
And you thought we had moved beyond all that: Biological Race Returns to the Social Sciences
Recently, sociologists have argued in high-profile journals that racial categories are linked to genetically distinct clusters within the human population. They propose theorizing race as a socially constructed categorization system that is related to biological groupings within our species. This work overlooks, however, the extent to which statistically inferred genetic clusters are themselves socially constructed, making it impossible to juxtap…
The Generational Locus of Multiraciality and Its Implications for Racial Self-Identification
Estimates of the size of the multiracial population in the United States depend on what prompts people to report multiple races on censuses and surveys. We use data from the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults to explore how racial self-identification is shaped by the generational locus of an individual's multiracial ancestry-that is, the place in one's family tree where the earliest interracial union appears. We develop the theoretical rationa…
Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership
What Brubaker [2016. "The Dolezal Affair: Race, Gender, and the Micropolitics of Identity." Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (3): 414-448] referred to in these pages as "the Dolezal affair", though widely and intensely scrutinized, was only one example of a broader series of recent public controversies over an individual's "true" racial identity. This article argues that in the early-twenty-first century, claims of race-group membership are being com…
Reconstructing Race in Science and Society: Biology Textbooks, 1952-2002
How has growing knowledge about human genetics affected how American textbooks present race? This article analyzes 80 biology textbooks published from 1952 to 2002 to reveal that U.S. biology texts have pursued the topic of race with renewed vigor in recent years. Moreover, textbooks have redefined race as genetic without furnishing empirical evidence for this framing. The textbooks' transformation sheds light on the broader relationship between …
Does Genomics Challenge the Social Construction of Race
Shiao, Bode, Beyer, and Selvig argue that the theory of race as a social construct should be revisited in light of recent genetic research, which they interpret as demonstrating that human biological variation is patterned in 'clinal classes' that are homologous to races. In this reply, I examine both their claims and the genetics literature they cite, concluding that not only does constructivist theory already accommodate the contemporary study …
The racial self-identification of South Asians in the United States
The racial identity of South Asians has long been a subject of controversy in the United States. Their inchoate racial status translates into a variety of racial descriptors being chosen by and for South Asians. This paper uses 1990 census data to examine the socio-economic and demographic correlates of the racial self-identification choices made by household heads of Asian Indian origin, both foreign-and US-born. The results of multinomial logit…
Multiracial Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future Impact
Everyone Knows It's a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race
Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not biologically anchored. I investigate contemporary scientific thinking about race by interviewing more than 40 biologists and anthropologists at four northeastern universities. Contrary to sociologists' expectations, racial constructionism is revealed to be a minority viewpoint. Mor…
Regimes beyond the One-Drop Rule: New Models of Multiracial Identity
The racial classification of mixed-race people has often been presumed to follow hypo- or hyperdescent rules, where they were assigned to either their lower- or higher-status monoracial ancestor group. This simple framework, however, does not capture actual patterns of self-identification in contemporary societies with multiple racialized groups and numerous mixed-race combinations. Elaborating on previous concepts of multiracial classification r…
Socially Desirable Reporting and the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race
In recent decades, dramatic developments in genetics research have begun to transform not only the practice of medicine but also conceptions of the social world. In the media, in popular culture, and in everyday conversation, Americans routinely link genetics to individual behavior and social outcomes. At the same time, some social researchers contend that biological definitions of race have lost ground in the United States over the last fifty ye…
Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States
Multiracial self-identification is frequently portrayed as a disproportionately female tendency, but previous research has not probed the conditions under which this relationship might occur. Using the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults, we offer a more comprehensive analysis that considers gender differences at two distinct stages: reporting multiple races in one's ancestry and selecting multiple races to describe oneself. We also examine sel…
From sword to plowshare: Using race for discrimination and antidiscrimination in the United States
This article addresses the question of how the United States' policies of antidiscrimination drew on official racial categories that were traditionally used explicitly for discriminatory purposes. After briefly recounting the history of official racial classification practices in the United States and their relation to racist laws and practices, we describe the development of legal prohibitions on racial discrimination, culminating in the civil r…
National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America
Repositioning, not replacing, race: The Case for Concepts of Descent-Based Difference
In this response to the very thoughtful critiques of our book, An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States, we advocate for a comparative sociological examination of race that, while acknowledging and documenting its enduring centrality, also explores alternative notions of ancestry-based distinction. The framework that we propose for examining the full range of such "concepts of descent-based difference," rather than obscuring s…
Scientific Racism Redux?the Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea: A Troublesome Inheritance Indeed
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Seeing and knowing others
Pour une sociologie de la conceptualisation raciale au 21ème siècle
Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that is, notions of what race is, how races differ, and the origins of race. This article outlines key empirical, methodological and theoretical considerations for a research agenda on racial conceptualization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than 5…
The racial self-identification of South Asians in the United States
The racial identity of South Asians has long been a subject of controversy in the United States. Their inchoate racial status translates into a variety of racial descriptors being chosen by and for South Asians. This paper uses 1990 census data to examine the socio-economic and demographic correlates of the racial self-identification choices made by household heads of Asian Indian origin, both foreign-and US-born. The results of multinomial logit…
Particular universalisms: North African immigrants respond to French racism
This article examines how ordinary victims of racism rebut racist beliefs communicated to them by the mass media and encountered in daily life. We describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs. We argue that while French anti-racist rhetorics, both elite and popul…
The International Politics of Race
Race
From sword to plowshare: Using race for discrimination and antidiscrimination in the United States
This article addresses the question of how the United States' policies of antidiscrimination drew on official racial categories that were traditionally used explicitly for discriminatory purposes. After briefly recounting the history of official racial classification practices in the United States and their relation to racist laws and practices, we describe the development of legal prohibitions on racial discrimination, culminating in the civil r…
Multiracial Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future Impact
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
Commercially available tests of genetic ancestry have significant scientific limitations, but are serious matters for many test-takers.
Everyone Knows It's a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race
Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not biologically anchored. I investigate contemporary scientific thinking about race by interviewing more than 40 biologists and anthropologists at four northeastern universities. Contrary to sociologists' expectations, racial constructionism is revealed to be a minority viewpoint. Mor…
Newcomers in Italy - About Livia Turco and Paola Tavella, I Nuovi Italiani: L'immigrazione, i pregiudizi, la convivenza (Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2005)
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Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line
Reconstructing Race in Science and Society: Biology Textbooks, 1952-2002
How has growing knowledge about human genetics affected how American textbooks present race? This article analyzes 80 biology textbooks published from 1952 to 2002 to reveal that U.S. biology texts have pursued the topic of race with renewed vigor in recent years. Moreover, textbooks have redefined race as genetic without furnishing empirical evidence for this framing. The textbooks' transformation sheds light on the broader relationship between …
Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century
Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Get access Ann Morning Ann Morning New York University Direct correspondence to Ann Morning, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette St., Room 4118, New York, NY 10012. Tel: (212) 992-9569. Fax: (212) 995-4140. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 87, Is…
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
What do Americans think "race" means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates, Morning explores different concepti…
A French Perspective On American Racial Categories - Paul Schor, Compter et classer: Histoire des recensements américains (Paris, Éditions ehess, 2009)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification
The 21 st Century is Not The 19 th - Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft. The Soul of Inequality in American Life (London & New York: (Verso Books, 2012)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
Does Genomics Challenge the Social Construction of Race
Shiao, Bode, Beyer, and Selvig argue that the theory of race as a social construct should be revisited in light of recent genetic research, which they interpret as demonstrating that human biological variation is patterned in 'clinal classes' that are homologous to races. In this reply, I examine both their claims and the genetics literature they cite, concluding that not only does constructivist theory already accommodate the contemporary study …
And you thought we had moved beyond all that: Biological Race Returns to the Social Sciences
Recently, sociologists have argued in high-profile journals that racial categories are linked to genetically distinct clusters within the human population. They propose theorizing race as a socially constructed categorization system that is related to biological groupings within our species. This work overlooks, however, the extent to which statistically inferred genetic clusters are themselves socially constructed, making it impossible to juxtap…
Pour une sociologie de la conceptualisation raciale au 21ème siècle
Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that is, notions of what race is, how races differ, and the origins of race. This article outlines key empirical, methodological and theoretical considerations for a research agenda on racial conceptualization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than 5…
National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America
Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective: A Cross-National Survey of the 2000 Census Round
Many if not most countries around the world categorize their inhabitants by race, ethnicity and/or national origins when it comes time to conduct a census. In an unpublished survey of census questionnaires, the United Nations found that 65 % enumerated their populations by national or ethnic group (United Nations Statistics Division 2003). However, this statistic encompasses a wide diversity of approaches to ethnic classification, as evinced by t…
Scientific Racism Redux?the Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea: A Troublesome Inheritance Indeed
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Generational Locus of Multiraciality and Its Implications for Racial Self-Identification
Estimates of the size of the multiracial population in the United States depend on what prompts people to report multiple races on censuses and surveys. We use data from the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults to explore how racial self-identification is shaped by the generational locus of an individual's multiracial ancestry-that is, the place in one's family tree where the earliest interracial union appears. We develop the theoretical rationa…
Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership
What Brubaker [2016. "The Dolezal Affair: Race, Gender, and the Micropolitics of Identity." Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (3): 414-448] referred to in these pages as "the Dolezal affair", though widely and intensely scrutinized, was only one example of a broader series of recent public controversies over an individual's "true" racial identity. This article argues that in the early-twenty-first century, claims of race-group membership are being com…
Sociology (30 works) · Gender Studies (23 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Race (biology (14 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (8 works)