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Racial Categories

Racial Categories is a sociopolitical construct that classifies individuals and groups into distinct racial groups based on perceived phenotypic, genetic, or ancestral traits, distinguished from other classification systems by its reliance on historically contingent and hierarchically structured social meanings.

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2017–2026

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Publications

585

Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return

William Safran · Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies · 1991 · 2.5K citations

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Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease.

Neil Risch, Esteban G. Burchard, Elad Ziv et al. · Genome Biology · 2002 · 761 citations · Full text

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Algorithmic Bias in Education

Ryan S. Baker, Aaron Hawn · International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education · 2021 · 622 citations · Full text

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The meaning of race in psychology and how to change it: A methodological perspective.

Janet E. Helms, Maryam M. Jernigan, Jackquelyn Mascher · American Psychologist · 2005 · 578 citations

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RACE AND ETHNICITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH: Models to Explain Health Disparities

William W. Dressler, Kathryn S. Oths, Clarence C. Gravlee · Annual Review of Anthropology · 2005 · 543 citations

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Authors

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  1. KA
    Kevin A. Whitehead

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    6 publications · 400 citations

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  2. JM
    Jacqueline M. Chen

    University of Utah, United States

    4 publications · 316 citations

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  3. LA
    Lawrence A. Hirschfeld

    University of Michigan, United States

    3 publications · 189 citations

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  4. AM
    Andrew M. Penner

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    3 publications · 218 citations

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  5. BB
    Benjamin Bailey

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    3 publications · 479 citations

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Institutions

465

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    12 h-index

    20 publications

    821 citations

  2. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    11 h-index

    12 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    25 publications

    3.7K citations

  4. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    10 h-index

    13 publications

    782 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    10 h-index

    13 publications

    756 citations

  6. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    543 citations

  7. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    1.4K citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 20 publications · 2K citations

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  2. Ethnic and Racial Studies

    19 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. PubMed

    Repository · 12 publications · 413 citations

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  4. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    JEMS · 7 publications · 367 citations

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  5. Philosophy of Science

    5 publications · 375 citations

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