ARTICLES
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS:
“Afro Latino, White Latino: How Phenotype, Parentage and Question Format Shape Latino Racial Identity’” (with Maria Abascal, Rene Flores and Samuel Titus)-under review
“How Immigration and Trade Keep Affecting White Voting and Attitudes” (with Raul Hinojosa Ojeda and Adhila Akbar).-under review
“Rethinking Assimilation” (with René Flores and Lucas Drouhout).
“Is Racial Inequality in Brazil an Artifact of Racial Reclassification?” (with Nicholas Freeman and Rachel Goldberg),
“Classifying Afro-Panamanians Depends on The Census Race Question and Response Options: A Survey Experiment” (with Sofia Jaime and Ricardo Henrique Lowe, Jr.)
“Comparing Racial Exogamy in the US and UK with a New Measurement Method” (with Anna Naszodi)
“Who is Black? 10 Nations, Many Definitions” (with Sofia Jaime, Ricardo Henrique Lowe Jr. and Maria Abascal)
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
Telles, Edward and Anna Montfort i Chipell (forthcoming) “Six Decades of Ethnic Data Collection in Censuses Worldwide” Population Research and Policy Review.
Flores, Rene, Edward Telles and Alexander Agadjanian (forthcoming) “Ethnic Attrition in the United States” American Journal of Sociology.
Muniz, Jeronimo, Edward Telles and Leopoldo Souza Silveira, (forthcoming) “How Migration and Income Affect Racial Classification in Brazil: A Longitudinal Analysis of Official Employment Data” Novos Estudos.
Sue, Christina A., and Telles, Edward 2026. “New Concepts for Immigrant Integration and Race/Ethnicity Theorizing: Ethnoracial Core and Symbolic-to-Consequential Ethnoracial Continuum.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Caroline Martínez, Edward Telles, and Florencia Torche, “From Language to Self-Identification: Indigenous Classification in the Americas,” Social Forces, 2025;, soaf152
Telles, Edward E., Stanley R. Bailey, Shahin Davoudpour, and Nicholas C. Freeman. 2025.."Racial Inequality in Latin America." Oxford Open Economics. article 10.1093/ooec/odae022/
Flores, René D., Edward Telles, Ilana M. Ventura. 2024. New OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Standards Will Affect How Americans Self-Identify. Sociological Science.
Freeman, Nicholas C., Edward E. Telles and Rachel E. Goldberg. 2024. “The Changing Relationship between Racial Identity and Skin Color in Brazil.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Sue, Christina A., Fernando Riosmena, and Edward Telles. 2024. "Black Disadvantage or Advantage? Misalignment between State and Popular Understandings of Blackness in Mexico." Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 10: 23780231231217821.
Telles, Edward, Albert Esteve, and Andrés F. Castro Torres. 2023. "Black–white intermarriage in global perspective." Demographic Research 49: 737-768.
Liu, Mao-Mei, Michael Crowe, Edward E. Telles, Ivonne Z. Jiménez-Velázquez, and William H. Dow. 2022. “Color disparities in Cognitive Aging among Puerto Ricans on the Archipelago,” Social Science and Medicine - Population Health 17.
Liu, Mao-Mei, Edward Telles, Katherine L Tucker, Luis M Falcon, Ivonne Z Jiménez Velázquez, and William Dow. 2022. “Race/Ethnic Differences, Skin Tone and Cognitive Aging among Older Latinos in the U.S.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
Hinojosa Ojeda, Raul and Edward Telles. 2021. “Trump Paradox: How Immigration and Trade Affected White Voting and Attitudes.” Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 7: 1–12.
Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2020. “Rejoinder: Durable Ethnicity’s ethnic core, symbolic consequential ethnicity and other concepts. Book Symposium on Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 13.
Telles, Edward and Albert Esteve. 2019. “Racial Intermarriage in the Americas” Sociological Science 6: 293-320.
Telles, Edward and Florencia Torche. 2019 “Varieties of Indigeneity in the Americas" Social Forces 97(4):1543–1570.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2018. “La Integración de México-Americanos en Estados Unidos” Nexos (Mexico).
Telles, Edward. 2018. “Race, Latinos and the U.S. Census” The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 677(1): 153 - 164
Telles, Edward. 2017. “Multiple Measures of Ethnoracial Classification in Latin America” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(13): 2340-46 (Special Issue on International Perspectives on the Measurement of Race and Ethnicity).
Ortiz, Vilma and Edward Telles. 2017. “Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(3). October.
Dixon, Angela and Edward Telles. 2017. “Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement” Annual Review of Sociology 43(1):405–24.
Telles, Edward, René D. Flores and Fernando Urrea-Giraldo, 2015. “Pigmentocracies: Skin Color, Census Ethnoracial Categories and Educational Inequality in Eight Latin American Countries” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 40: 39-58
Telles, Edward and Tianna Paschel. 2014. “Who is Black, White or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America” American Journal of Sociology 120(3) November: 864-907.
Pereira, Krista M. and Edward E. Telles. 2014. “The Color of Health: Color, Racial Classification and Discrimination in the Health of Latin Americans” Social Science and Medicine. 116: 241-250.
Telles, Edward and Denia Garcia. 2013. “Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 48(3): October, 130-152
Telles, Edward and Stanley Bailey. 2013. “Understanding Latin American Beliefs about Racial Inequality” American Journal of Sociology 118(6): August, 1559-1595.
Telles, Edward E. and René Flores. 2013. “Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation and Status in Latin America” Hispanic American Historical Review 93(3): March, 411-449.
Flores, René and Edward Telles. 2012. “Social Stratification in Mexico: Disentangling Color, Ethnicity and Class.” American Sociological Review 77(3): 486-494.
Ortiz, Vilma, and Edward Telles. 2012. "Racial Identity and Racial Treatment of Mexican Americans." Race and Social Problems 4.1 (2012): 41-56.
Telles, Edward E. 2012. “Introduction.” Special Issue on Hispanics. (Edward Telles, guest editor). Race and Social Problems. 4(1): 1-5.
Telles, Edward E. 2012. “The Overlapping Concepts of Race and Color in Latin America” Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(7): 1163-1168.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2011. “Racialization and Mexican American Incorporation; A Reply to Lawrence Bobo and José Itzigsohn." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race: 506-510.
Telles, Edward E. 2010. “A Retrospective: Looking Back a Decade Later on Brazil’s Racial Inclusion Policies” Desigualdade e Diversidade 6. January/June. Rio de Janeiro.
Telles, Edward E. 2010. “Mexican Americans and Immigrant Incorporation” Contexts. February, 29-35.
(Reprinted in Douglas Hartmann and Cristopher Uggen (eds.) The Contexts Reader. Second edition. New York: W.W. Norton)
Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2009. “Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective.” Annual Review of Sociology: 129-146.
Telles, Edward E. 2007. “Race, Ethnicity and the UN’s Millenium Development Goals in Latin America” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 2(2), September: 185-200.
Sue, Christie and Edward E. Telles. 2007 “Assimilation and Gender in Naming” American Journal of Sociology 112(5), March: 1383-1415.
Telles, Edward E. 2006. “Mexican Americans and the American Nation” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 21(2), Fall: 7-24.
(In Portuguese as Telles, Edward. 2006. “Os Mexicanos-Americanos e a Nação Americana: Resposta ao Professor Huntington.” Tempo Social 18(2): 167-184.)
Bailey, Stanley and Edward E. Telles. 2006. “Multiracial vs. Collective Black Categories: Census Classification Debates in Brazil.” Ethnicities 6(1): 74-101.
Telles, Edward E. 2003. “US Foundations and Racial Reasoning in Brazil.” Theory, Culture and Society 20(4):31-48.
(Earlier version in Portuguese “As Fundações Norteamericanas e o Debate Racial no Brasil” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos 24:141-166)
Telles, Edward E. and Stanley Bailey. 2002. “Políticas Contra o Racismo e Opinião Pública: Comparações entre Brasil e os Estados Unidos” Opinião Publica 8(1): 30-39.
Telles, Edward E. 2002. “Racial Ambiguity Among the Brazilian Population.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 25(3) May: 415-441.
Hunter, Margaret, Walter Allen, and Edward E. Telles, 2001. “The Significance of Skin Color among African Americans and Mexican Americans,” African American Perspectives 7(1): 173-184.
Allen, Walter, Edward E. Telles, and Margaret Hunter, 2000. “Skin Color, Income and Education: A Comparison of African Americans and Mexican Americans,” National Journal of Sociology 12(1): 129-180.
Telles, Edward E. 2000. “Industrialização, Crescimento Economico e Desigualdade Racial no Brasil, 1960-1996.” Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Trabajo 5(10):43-70.
Telles, Edward E. and Nelson Lim. 1998. “Does it Matter Who Answers the Race Question? Racial Classification and Income Inequality in Brazil”. Demography 35(4). November, 465-474.
(In Portuguese as Edward E. Telles. 1999. “Interessa Quem Responde a Questão Sobre Cor? Classificação Racial e Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos December, 36: 7-27)
Telles, Edward E. 1997. “A Promoção da Diversidade Racial no Brasil: Uma Perspectiva Comparada aos Estados Unidos” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos 30:
Telles, Edward E., 1996. “Identidade Racial, Contexto Urbano e Mobilização Politica” Afro-Asia 17: 121-138.
Murguía, Edward and Edward E. Telles, 1996. “Phenotype and Schooling among Mexican Americans,” Sociology of Education 69 (October), 276-89.
Telles, Edward E., 1996 “Ações Afirmativas: Início no Brasil e Fim nos EUA?” Estudos Feministas 4(1), 194-201.
Telles, Edward E., 1995. “Race, Class and Space in Brazilian Cities,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 19(4), 395-406.
Telles, Edward E., 1995. “Who are the Morenas?” Social Forces 73(4) 1609-1612.
Telles, Edward E., 1995. “The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Segregation in Brazil,” American Journal of Sociology 100(5), March, 1199-1223.
Telles, Edward E., 1994. “Industrialization and Racial Inequality in Employment: The Brazilian Example,” American Sociological Review 59(1), February, 46-63.
(Expanded version in Portuguese as Edward Telles. 1994.“Industrialização e Desigualdade Racial no Emprego: O Exemplo Brasileiro,” Estudos AfroAsiaticos 26, September, 21-52).
Telles, Edward E., 1993. “Racial Distance and Region in Brazil: Intermarriage in Brazilian Urban Areas,” Latin American Research Review 27(2), May, 141-162.
Telles, Edward E., 1993. “Urban Labor Market Segmentation and Income in Brazil,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 41(2), January, 231-250.
Telles, Edward E., 1992. “Residential Segregation by Skin Color in Brazil,” American Sociological Review 57(2), April, 186-197.
(In Portuguese as Edward Telles. 1993. “Cor da Pele e Segregação Residencial no Brasil,” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos 24 (July), 5-22.
Telles, Edward E, 1992. “Who Gets Formal Sector Jobs? Determinants of Formal-Informal Sector Participation in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas,” Work and Occupations 19(2), May: 108-127
Telles, Edward E,. and Edward Murguia. 1992. “The Continuing Significance of Phenotype among Mexican-Americans,” Social Science Quarterly 73(1), March, 120-122. [Reply to Alok K. Bohara and Alberto Davila's “A Reassessment of Phenotypic Discrimination and Income Differences among Mexican Americans,” in same issue.]
Telles, Edward E., and Edward Murguia. 1990. “Phenotypic Discrimination and Income Differences among Mexican-Americans,” Social Science Quarterly 71(4), December, 682-696.
Telles, Edward E,.1990. “Caracteristicas Sociais dos Trabalhadores Informais: O Caso das Areas Metropolitanas no Brasil,” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos 16, December, 61-80.
Bean, Frank D., Edward E. Telles, and Lindsay Lowell. 1987. “Undocumented Immigration to the United States: Perceptions and Evidence,” Population and Development Review 13(4) December, 671-690.
RESEARCH ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS:
Telles, Edward, and Caroline Martínez. 2023. "Ethnoracial Inequalities in Latin America." The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education (2023): 80.
Telles, Edward. 2022. “Studies on Racial Classification in Latin America” in Bernd Reiter and John Anton Sanchez (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies. Routledge Press.
Telles, Edward. 2021. “Identity and Migration”, Chapter in Interacting Concepts in Migration Studies by Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs and Riva Kastoryano (ed.). Routledge: Global Migration Series.
Hinojosa, Raul and Edward Telles. 2020. “How do we explain Trump’s paradoxical yet electorally successful use of a false U.S.-Mexico narrative?” Chapter 1 in The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade and Racial Politics in U.S.-Mexico Integration. University of California Press.
Hinojosa, Raul and Edward Telles. 2020. “Introduction” in The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade and Racial Politics in U.S.-Mexico Integration. University of California Press.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2016. “Generations of Exclusion” in Tomás Almaguer and Ramón Gutiérrez (eds.) Latino Studies Reader: A 21st Century Perspective. Berkeley: University of California.
Telles, Edward. 2016. “Race Relations in Brazil” In Rogelio Saenz, David Embrick and Nestor Rodriguez (eds.) International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity. New York: Springer.
Telles, Edward E. 2015. “Race in Latin America.” In Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn (eds.) Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley & Sons,
Beveridge, Andrew, David Halle, Edward Telles and Beth DuFault. 2013. “Residential Diversity and Division: Separation and Segregation among Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Affluent, and Poor.” Chapter 11 (pages 310-342) in Andrew Beveridge and David Halle (eds.) New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2013. “Intergenerational Assimilation Patterns of Mexican Americans” Chapter 2 (pages 27-42) in Adam Sawyer and Bryant Jensen (eds.) Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration and Bi-National Improvement. New York: Teachers College Press.
Telles, Edward E. 2010. “Repensando las Relaciones Raciales en Brasil” en Beatriz Castro Carvajal (ed.) La Sociedad Colombiana: Cifras y tendencias. Cali: Editorial Universidad del Valle.
Telles, Edward E. 2009. “The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil” in Evelyn Nakano-Glenn (ed.) Shades of Difference: Transnational Perspectives on How and Why Skin Color Matters. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Telles, Edward E. and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. “Finding America: Creating Educational Opportunity for our Newest Citizens.” In Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins (eds.) All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time. New York: The New Press.
Durand, Jorge, Edward E. Telles and Jennifer Flashman. 2006. “Demographic Foundations of the Latino Population” in pages 66-99 of Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell (ed.) Hispanics and the Future of America. (Panel on Hispanics, Committee of Population) Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Ribeiro, Luiz Cesar and Edward E. Telles. 2000. “Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City,” Pp. 78-94 in Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen (eds.) Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? New York: Blackwell Press.
Telles, Edward E., 1999, “Ethnic Boundaries and Political Mobilization among African Brazilians: Comparisons with the US Case,” Pp. 85-93 in Michael Hanchard (ed.) Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil. Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press.
Lopez, David, Eric Popkin and Edward E. Telles, 1997. “Central Americans: At the Bottom, Struggling to Get Ahead” Pages 279-304 (Chapter 10) in Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr (eds.) Ethnic Los Angeles. New York: Russel Sage.
Telles, Edward E., 1996. “Integração Economica e Migrações Internacionais: O Caso México-Estados Unidos” Pages 49-62 in Neide Patarra (ed.) Migrações Internacionais: Herança XX, Agenda XXI. Brasilia: United Nations Fund for Population Activities.
Telles, Edward E., 1994. “Segregação Residencial e Crisis Urbana,” in Luiz César de Queiroz Ribeiro and Orlando Alves dos Santos Júnior (eds.) Globalização, Fragmentação e Reforma Urbana: O Futuro das Cidades Brasileiras na Crisis. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Civilização Brasileira, 189-220.
Bean, Frank D., W. Parker Frisbie, Edward Telles and B. Lindsay Lowell. 1992. “The Economic Impact of Undocumented Workers in the Southwest of the United States,” in John Weeks and Roberto Ham Chande (eds.) Demographic Dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico Border, El Paso: Texas Western Press, 219-238.
Telles, Edward E., 1991.“Contato Racial no Brasil Urbano: Análise de Segregação Racial nas Quarenta Maiores Areas Urbanas do Brasil em 1980,” in Peggy Lovell (ed.) Desigualdade Racial no Brasil Contempôraneo. Belo Horizonte: UFMG/ CEDEPLAR, 341-365.
Bean, Frank D., W. Parker Frisbie, B. Lindsay Lowell and Edward E. Telles. 1989. “The Spanish Origin Population of the American Southwest,” in Frank D. Bean, Jurgen Schmandt, and Sidney Weintraub (eds.) Mexican and Central American Population and U.S. Immigration Policy, Austin: CMAS/University of Texas Press, 65-112.
Telles, Edward and Frank D. Bean. 1988. “El Impacto de la Inmigración Indocumentada Sobre Los Mercados de Trabajo en Los Estados Unidos de Norte America,” Memorias de la Tercera Reunion Nacional Sobre La Investigación Demografica en Mexico, Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.