René D. Flores
@rd_flowers
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Sociologist of immigration, race, and ethnicity @UChicago / @Princeton PhD / @CASBSStanford fellow 2023-2024
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2014
In 2024, the OMB approved major changes to the ethnic/racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the Census. Do these changes shape Americans’ ID choices? Edward Telles, @IlanaMVentura, and I address this question: 🧵 .
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Why did the U.S. multiracial population nearly triple between 2010 and 2020? Did cultural norms around racial identification shift? In a new paper, @IlanaMVentura and I find that this surge is largely due to changes in @uscensusbureau 2020 data processing, esp for Hispanics.
🚨New paper alert 🚨. The multiracial population in the United States grew 276% between 2010 and 2020, and now represents over 10% of the population. In a new paper out in the @RussellSageFdn Journal, @rd_flowers and I explore this sudden boom: 🧵.
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RT @_Caro_Martinez_: Excited to share my first published article in @SREJournal! Through a legal case in 🇪🇨, I show how Indigenous communit….
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This article examines how the community of Río Blanco in Ecuador asserted its Indigenous identity in court to defend itself against a mining company in 2017. As...
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RT @A_agadjanian: Super valuable new study that randomly assigns 7k+ Americans to old vs. new Census race formats. Among many interesting p….
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This results in statistically significant decreases in key minority populations, including Afro-Latinos and indigenous Latinos (5/5). @SociologicalSci @ASAnews.
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We find that the combined question decreases the % of Americans identifying as white & as some other race. We ID the key mechanism driving the effects: Hispanics decrease their identification in other categories when a Hispanic category is available in the combined q format (4/5).
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We conduct a survey experiment with a nationally representative sample of 7,350 Americans. Participants were randomly assigned to answer either the existing separate race and ethnicity q's or a combined question proposed by the OMB (3/5).
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These modifications include merging the separate race and Hispanic ethnicity questions into a single combined question and adding a Middle Eastern and North African category. Gov officials and researchers have requested evidence on how Americans might react to these changes (2/5).
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RT @dw_espanol: El impacto del plan de deportaciones masivas de Trump.La inquietud cunde entre los 11 millones de #migrantes #indocumentado….
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RT @DaveBrady72: More than 1 million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016. How did this affect Germans’ exclusionary beliefs & behavi….
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In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractional...
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Our new @AMJPublicHealth editorial with Ariela Schachter @ArielaSchachter and Neda Maghbouleh @nedasoc on the need to collect and disaggregate self-Identification data for Middle Eastern and North African Americans. #MENA.
A new @AMJPublicHealth editorial by Prof. @nedasoc highlights how the absence of a #MENA category in federal data has hidden disparities within the community, making the collection of self-identified data key to addressing health & social inequalities.
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RT @UCStoneCenter: Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion on U.S. immigration policy!. Williams College Professor Tara Watson, au….
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RT @LGDrouhot: New paper with Linda Zhao @UChicagoSoc now out at @ReadDemography. We show general patterns of assimilation in terms of netw….
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RT @chris_bail: Are you interested in learning about computational social science *for free* and identifying new opportunities for interdis….
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RT @StanfordSoc: New in @PNASNews, @AmyLJohnson_soc (@StanfordSoc PhD '23 @LehighU), @cmlevesque (@KenyonCollege), @NeilLewisJr (@CornellCo….
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RT @kelley_fong: Fascinating and important new work in @ASR_Journal by Linda Zhao @UChicagoSoc and @AVPapachristos: After Chicago police of….
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Police culture creates an “us versus them” dynamic, which, at its worst, treats threats to the “thin blue line” as worthy of group response. Prior research docu...
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🚨 Job alert at Chicago Sociology 🚨.We are hiring an Instructional Professor/Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies in the Sociology Department. This is a full-time, career-track teaching position. Open Rank. Please share widely. More info:. #sociology.
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RT @StephanieTern: Coming back here for a bit of shameless self-promotion, because I just learned my book is available for pre-order!! http….
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How local contexts help us understand why White voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the right
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Non-English names like mine, which is French, are often deemed errors by U.S. universities. Many university websites won’t let me upload letters of rec for my students unless I anglicize my name & remove the accent. These institutions publicly endorse cultural diversity.
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