One of the very first things researchers need to do is define their terms, to develop “operational definitions” of the things they are studying. When it comes to race, however, very few researchers have taken the time to do that very difficult, but very important, task. Maya Sen and Omar Wasow have made that much …
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The View from Below
Profiles from my hometown: An 82-year-old Cambodian grandmother who fled with her family at the end of the U.S. war in Indochina and has now spent more than half her life in a place that still doesn’t feel like home. A 15-year-old of Mexican ancestry–one parent a U.S. citizen, the other not–who enrolls in Upward …