OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates	18
Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition	16
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent	16
Race Lessons: The Role of Place in Shaping Black Parents’ Racial Learning and Educational Engagement in a Predominantly White Suburb	15
The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships	13
How White Americans Experience Racial Gaze: Public Interactions and White Parents of Black Adopted Children	13
Students Want to Build Anti-racist Praxis: How to Support Them in the Classroom with Grassroots Organizers	13
Assessing and Extending Colorblind Racism Theory Using National Survey Data	12
Race-shifting in the United States: Latinxs, Skin Tone, and Ethnoracial Alignments	12
Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change	11
Activism under Fire: The Politics of Non-Violence in Rio de Janeiro’s Gang Territories	11
When Affirmative Action Disappears: Unexpected Patterns in Student Enrollments at Selective U.S. Institutions, 1990–2016	11
Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan’s Water War	10
Theorizing Pain and Exclusion: On the Violence of “Playing the Game” in the Academy	9
Field Experiments and Job Posting Sources: The Consequences of Job Database Selection for Estimates of Racial Discrimination	9
Is Free Speech Racist?	9
Social Justice in the Name of __________: Cultivating Abolitionist Visions of Justice with Project-Based Learning	8
Reading, Writing, and Harassment: White–Latinx Test Score Disparities on the U.S.–Mexico Border	8
Between Stuart Hall and Cedric Robinson: Capturing Imaginaries of Racial Capitalism	8
Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society	7
Guess Who: Experiential Learning and Reflexivity in Race and Ethnicity Courses	7
Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism	7
Skin Tone and Inequality of Socioeconomic Outcomes in Mexico: A Comparative Analysis Using Optical Colorimeters and Color Palettes	7
Racialized Tensions and Affinities: Puerto Rican “Apprentices” and the Policing of Female Masculinity	7
The Racial Contract: Challenging White Supremacy in Sociological Theories and Providing a Global Theory for Race	6

“Over-zealous Parents, Over-programmed Families”: Asian Americans, Academic Achievement, and White Supremacy	6
Racialized Organizations in Racialized Space: How Socio-spatial Divisions Activate Symbolic Boundaries in a Charter School and a Public School	5
Trading on Diverse Relationships: The Process of Racialized Social Commodification in Multiracial Congregations	5
Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation	5
Inequality among the Disadvantaged? Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Earnings among Young Men and Women without a College Education	5
The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood	5
The Coloniality of Capitalism	5
Black and Indigenous Inequality in Mexico: Implications for Multiracialism and Intersectionality Research	5
Nice White Ladies: The Truth About White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We can Help Dismantle It	5
Examining the Experiences of Racialized and Indigenous Graduate Students as Emerging Researchers	5
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court	4
Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb	4
Narrating the Territorial Foundations of Privilege: Racial Discourse and Indigenous Peoples	4
“Asians Are the Least Troublemaker”: Navigating Racial In-betweenness in Korean American Community-based Spaces	4
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers	4
Understanding the Empty Backpack: The Role of Timing in Disproportionate Special Education Identification	4
Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State: The Danish Melting Pot	4
Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Black Women’s Experiences with Gendered Racial Microaggressions on a White Campus	4
The Invisible Carework of Anti-racist Pedagogy: The Experiences of Graduate Student Teaching Assistants	3
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want	3
Different but Somewhat Similar: Panethnicity, Group Boundaries, and Dating Preferences among Asian and Latino College Students	3
Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics	3
Success and Survival: Black Advantaged Parents’ Views of Race, White Space, and HBCU Attendance	3
Aquilombamento, Entrepreneurial Black Placemaking in an Anti-Black City	3
Black Campus Life: The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution	3
The Paradox of Integration: Racial Composition of NFL Positions from 1960 to 2020	3
Identifying the Unidentified Race: A Study of Normative Features of Commonsense Knowledge of Racism in Asian Members’ Online Interaction	3
Interventions in Intersectionality: Exploring Fantastical World-building to Investigate Feminist and Anti-racist Strategies	3
Thematic Book Review: Labor and Elite Domination in the Color Line of U.S. Higher Education	3
Tolerable Suboptimization: Racial Consequences of Defunding Public Universities	2
The Foods of Black Folks: A Reply	2
Some Reflections on the Promise and Limits of ‘Getting King right’ in the Age of Polarization	2
Wellness in Whiteness: Biomedicalization and the Promotion of Whiteness and Youth among Women	2
Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology	2
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life	2
“I Just Couldn’t Relate to That Asian American Narrative”: How Southeast Asian Americans Reconsider Panethnicity	2
The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class	2
Signifying Aggrieved White Selves: Trump Supporters’ Racial Identity Work	2
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean	2
Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Shape Retail Clothing Work	2
How the Visibility of “Whiteness as a Credential” Creates Trade-offs for the Fit and Belonging of Minoritized Students at College	2
Decolonizing Sociology: An Introduction	2
Up the Hill: The Familial-institutional Reproduction of the Black Upper-middle Class	2
Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery	2
Political Struggles Over Black Memory	2
Maya Guatemalans Seeking Asylum: Race and Gender in a Continuum of State Control	1
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century	1
(Un)docile Bodies	1
Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America	1
Book Review: Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right	1

“Imagine an Ignorance That Fights Back”: Honoring Charles Mills, Our Inheritance and Charge	1
Epistemic Marginalization and Methodology 50 Years after The Death of White Sociology	1
Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins	1
The Fallacies of Racism: Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy	1
“Racism Masked as Safety Concerns”: The Experiences of Residents of Color With Racialized Coveillance in a Predominantly White Neighborhood	1
“In My Heart, I Am Cambodian”: Symbolic Ethnicity among Parents Who Adopt Transracially	1
Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement	1
“We’re Expected to Be Homogenous”: Contesting Latinidad and the Myth of Panethnic Inclusion	1
Visualizing Injustice or Reifying Racism? Images in the Digital Media Coverage of the Killing of Michael Brown	1
Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being	1
Food as Soul and Survival	1
Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future	1
Slavery’s Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South	1