Recommendations
Readings on Racioethnic Identities and Categorization
These readings have informed my thinking, as well as my research, when it comes to how we societally understand race and ethnicity, specifically with regards to identity (i.e., how we see our own and others') and how it is 'measured' and studied.
Cox Jr., T. (1990). Problems with research by organizational scholars on issues of race and ethnicity. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 26(1), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/002188639002600103
Cox Jr., T. (1994). A comment on the language of diversity. Organization Speaking Out, 1(1), 51-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/135050849400100109
Cox Jr., T. & Nkomo, S.M. (1990). Invisible men and women: A status report on race as a variable in organization behavior research. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 11(6), 419-431. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.4030110604
Doyle, J.M. & Kao, G. (2007). Are racial identities of multiracial stable? Changing self-identification among single and multiple race individuals. Social Psychology Quarterly, 70(4), 405-423.https://doi.org/10.1177/019027250707000409
Helms, J.E., Jernigan, M., & Mascher, J. (2005). The meaning of race in psychology and how to change it: A methodological perspective. American Psychologist, 60(1), 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.60.1.27
Lee, J., & Ramakrishnan, K. (2020). Who counts as Asian. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(10), 1733-1756. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1671600
Monk, E.P. (2022). Inequality without groups: Contemporary theories of categories, intersectional typicality, and the disaggregation of differences. Sociological Theory, 40(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751221076863
Sen, M., & Wasow, O. (2016). Race as a bundle of sticks: Designs that estimate effects of seemingly immutable characteristics. Annual Review of Political Science, 19(1), 499-522. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-032015-010015
Wilkins, C.L., Kaiser, C.R., & Rieck, H. (2010). Detecting racial identification: The role of phenotypic prototypicality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 1029-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.05.017
Zuberi, T. & Bonilla-Silva, E. (2008). White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Research Webinar Series
I personally have enjoyed learning from the following research webinar series:
Other Resource Compilations
Some researchers have compiled resources to help those looking to conduct social science research as well as to gain research experience and enter grad school:
Dr. Jaclyn Siegel has compiled the following Google Doc with resources
Dr. Meltem Yucel has created the PsychResearchList
Dr. Margaret Echelberger seeks to demystify the hidden curriculum in her newsletter
Some of my Favourite Fiction
Free Food for Millionnaires by Min Jin Lee
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Mistborn trilogy (era 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson from Unsplash