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RESEARCH ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS:

Telles, Edward and Albert Esteve. 2019. “Racial Intermarriage in the Americas” Sociological Science6: 293-320.

Telles, Edward and Florencia Torche. 2019 “Varieties of Indigeneity in the AmericasSocial Forces97(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 Ethnicity3(3). October.

Dixon, Angela and Edward Telles. 2017. “Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement” Annual Review of Sociology43(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 Review48(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 Review77(3): 486-494. 

Ortiz, Vilma, and Edward Telles. 2012. "Racial Identity and Racial Treatment of Mexican Americans." Race and Social Problems4.1 (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 Studies35(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 PoliciesDesigualdade e Diversidade 6. January/JuneRio 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 Millennium 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 Sociology112(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 Social18(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 Society20(4):31-48.

(Earlier version in Portuguese “As Fundações Norteamericanas e o Debate Racial no Brasil” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos24:141-166)

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 Trabajo5(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-Asiaticos30:

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 Education69 (October), 276-89.

Telles, Edward E., 1996 “Ações Afirmativas: Início no Brasil e Fim nos EUA?” Estudos Feministas4(1), 194-201.

Telles, Edward E., 1995. “Race, Class and Space in Brazilian Cities,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research19(4), 395-406.

Telles, Edward E., 1995. “Who are the Morenas?” Social Forces73(4) 1609-1612.

Telles, Edward E., 1995. “The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Segregation in Brazil,” American Journal of Sociology100(5), March, 1199-1223.

Telles, Edward E., 1994.  “Industrialization and Racial Inequality in Employment: The Brazilian Example,” American Sociological Review59(1), February, 46-63. (Expanded version in Portuguese as Edward Telles. 1994.“Industrialização e Desigualdade Racial no Emprego: O Exemplo Brasileiro,” Estudos AfroAsiaticos26, September, 21-52).

Telles, Edward E., 1993.  “Racial Distance and Region in Brazil: Intermarriage in Brazilian Urban Areas,” Latin American Research Review27(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 Review57(2), April, 186-197. (In Portuguese as Edward Telles. 1993. “Cor da Pele e Segregação Residencial no Brasil,” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos24 (July), 5-22.

Telles, Edward E, 1992. “Who Gets Formal Sector Jobs? Determinants of Formal-Informal Sector Participation in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas,” Work and Occupations19(2), May: 108-127

Telles, Edward E,. and Edward Murguia. 1992. “The Continuing Significance of Phenotype among Mexican-Americans,” Social Science Quarterly73(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 Quarterly71(4), December, 682-696.

Telles, Edward E,.1990. “Caracteristicas Sociais dos Trabalhadores Informais: O Caso das Areas Metropolitanas no Brasil,” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos16, 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 Review13(4) December, 671-690.

RESEARCH ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS:

Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2016. “Generations of Exclusion” in Tomás Almaguer and Ramón Gutiérrez (eds.) Latino Studies Reader: A 21stCentury 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.” InRobert 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.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS/CONSULTANCY REPORTS/BOOK REVIEWS:

Telles, Edward. 2016. Review of Getting Respect: Discrimination and Stigma in Brazil, Israel and the United Statesby Michelle Lamont et al, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Telles, Edward. 2016. “Black Lives Matter in Brazil Too.”  ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America.

Telles, Edward 2014. Review of The Long Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the American Hemisphereby Robert J. Cottrol. The American Historical Review.119 (3): 852-853

Telles, Edward. 2014. “The Beautiful Diversity of the World Cup.” Huffington Post. July 2.

Telles, Edward. 2013. “Joaquim Barbosa” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press.

Telles, Edward and Marcelo Paixão. 2013. “Affirmative Action in Brazil.” LASA Forum: 44(2), May (Latin American Studies Association).

Telles, Edward, 2012.  “Color, Ethnoracial Identification, and Class Determinants of Socioeconomic Status in Latin America” Consultancy Report for the Inter-American Development Bank.

Telles, Edward and Liza Steele. 2012. “Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color? Insights 73.Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University.

Telles, Edward and Liza Steele. 2012. “The Effects of Skin Color in the Americas.” Americas Quarterly. February 21. 

França, Danilo and Matheus Gato. 2012. “Entrevista com Edward Telles.” (Interview with Edward Telles). Plural: Revista de Programa de Pos-Graduação da USP17(2):143-158. São Paulo.

Telles, Edward E. 2010. “Latin American Report on Social inequalities and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),”consultancy report for Can the MDGs Provide a Pathway to Social Justice? The Challenge of Intersecting Inequalitiesby Naila Kabeer. United Nations Development Program and Institute of Development Studies.

Telles, Edward E. 2009. “Affirmative Action Row in Brazilian Universities” racismreview.com

Telles, Edward E. and Sylvia Zamora. 2008. “Trends in Black and Latino Occupational Overlap in U.S. Metropolitan Areas” Consultancy Report to the Ford Foundation.

Telles, Edward E. 2008. “Brazil in Black and White,Student Background Guide” Background Guide for Wide Angle Documentary Video. Public Broadcasting Corporation. Channel 18.

Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. “Mexican American Ethnic and Political Identities” Latino Policy and Issues Brief, Number 17. UCLA Chicano Studies Center. May.

Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. “Mexican Americans and Education” Latino Policy and Issues Brief, Number 18. UCLA Chicano Studies Center. June.

Telles, Edward E. 2007 “Race in a Miscegenation Context: The Brazil Experience” United Nations Chronicle, No. 3: 1-2. www.un.org/chronicle

Telles, Edward E. 2007. Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into the UN Millennium Development Goals. Race Report, Inter-American Dialogue (January).

(Earlier version: Concept Paper for Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into the UN Millennium Development Goals.Policy White Paper for the Inter Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America and the Inter-American Dialogue.)

Telles, Edward E. 2007. Preface to John P. Schmal The Journey to Latino Political Representation

Telles, Edward E. 2006. Review of Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracyby Gianpaolo Baiocchi. Contemporary Sociology.

Telles, Edward E. 2006. “Políticas raciais: pelo debate franco e plural”, Folha de São Paulo.'Tendências e Debates'. July 12. Page 3.

Telles, Edward E. 2004. Review of O Curso do Rio: Um Estudo sobre a Ação Afirmativa no Acesso a Universidade.  By William G. Bowen and Derek Bok –translated into Portuguese.  O Globo.

Telles, Edward E. 2004. Review of Transforming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspectiveby Mauricio Font. American Journal of Sociology. 1242-1243.

Telles, Edward E. 2004. “Ethnic Minorities and the Political Economy of Development: A Comment on Jonas Zoninstein” Economica .6(1). June: 141-144.

Telles, Edward E. 2002. Review of City of Walls: Segregation, Crime and Citizenship in São Pauloby Teresa Caldeira, Racial and Ethnic Studies,686-687.

Telles, Edward E., 1996. Promoting and Integrating Race/Ethnic Diversity in Brazil. Ford Foundation Report. (consultancy report)

Telles, Edward E., 1995. Review of Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York Cityby Maxine L. Margolis, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science538 (March), 226-27.

Telles, Edward E., 1994. Review of Race and Ethnicity in Research Methodsby John H. Stanfield and Rutledge M. Dennis (eds.), Contemporary Sociology23(3),463-64.

Telles, Edward E., 1991. Review of The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self Defenseby Henry A. Selby, Arthur D. Murphy and Stephen A. Lorenzen, American Journal of Sociology97(3), November 1991, 885-887.

BOOKS IN PROGRESS:

Jose Vicente Tavares dos Santos and Edward Telles (eds.) In Press. Global Frontiers in Social Control and Deviance.Springer Press. 

Telles, Edward. Decentering Race and Color: A Latin American Perspective.