Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Articles
  • Schachter, Ariela, René D. Flores, and Neda Maghbouleh. Forthcoming. "Ancestry, Color, or Culture? How Whites Ethnoracially Classify Others in the U.S." American Journal of Sociology.
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  • Flores, René D. and David Sulmont. Forthcoming. "To be or not to be? Material Incentives and Indigenous Identification in Latin America." Ethnic and Racial Studies.

  • Flores, René D. 2020. “A Little More Ghetto, a Little Less Cultured”: Are there Racial Stereotypes About Interracial Daters in the U.S.?" ​Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 
 
  • Flores, René D. and Ariela Schachter. 2019. "Examining Americans' Stereotypes about Immigrant Illegality." Contexts.​            
 
  • Stewart, Ian, René D. Flores, Ingmar G. Weber, and Emilio Zagheni. 2019. "Rock, Rap, or Reggaeton?: Assessing Mexican Immigrants′ Cultural Assimilation Using Facebook Data." Proceedings of the 2019 Web Conference. 
 
  • Flores, René D. and Ariela Schachter. 2018. "Who are the 'illegals'?: The Social Construction of Illegality in the U.S." American Sociological Review ​83, no. 5:839-868. 
                - Lead article.
                - Featured by National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Standard, The Chicago Maroon, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Society Pages, and Vox. ​​​​

  • Flores, René D. 2018. "Can Elites Shape Public Attitudes Towards Immigrants?: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election."​ Social Forces. 96: 1649-1690.
                - Featured on the Washington Post′s The Monkey Cage (May 25, 2018), The Arizona Republic, FiveThirtyEight, and USA Today.

  • Flores, René D. 2018. "Interviewing in the Eye of the Storm: Do Local Anti-immigrant Policies Have Social Consequences?" ​SAGE Research Methods Cases.
 
  • Flores, René D.  2017. "Do Anti-immigrant Laws shape Public Sentiment?: A Study of Arizona′s SB 1070 using Twitter data.” American Journal of Sociology 123, no. 2, 333-384.
                - Lead article.
                - Featured by Public News Service, Science Daily, The Society Pages, and The Daily of the University of Washington. ​​
                - Louis Wirth Best Article Award, ASA International Migration Section, 2018. 
                - Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award, ASA Latina/o Sociology Section, 2018. 

  • Flores, René D. and Robert Vargas. 2017. "Medicaid Expansion and Ethnoracial Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
  
  • Flores, René D. 2015a. "The Resurgence of Race in Spain: Perceptions of Discrimination Among Immigrants in Spain.” Social Forces. 94: 237-269.
​                - Aristide Zolberg Student Scholar Award, ASA International Migration Section, 2013.

  • Flores, René D. 2015b. "Taking the Law Into their Own Hands: Do Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinances Increase Gun Sales?” Social Problems. 62, no. 3: 363-390.
                - Aristide Zolberg Student Scholar Award, ASA International Migration Section, 2014.
                - Excerpted April 9, 2016 in Contexts, "Building Walls, Buying Guns."

  • Telles, Edward, René D. Flores and Fernando Urrea. 2015. "Why Skin Color is Better than Ethnoracial Identification at Predicting Inequality in Latin America?” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Vol. 40, 39−58.
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  • Flores, René D. 2014. "In the Eye of the Storm: How did Hazleton′s Restrictive Immigration Ordinance Affect Local Interethnic Relations?” American Behavioral Scientist. Vol. 58(13) 1743−1763.
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  • Telles, Edward and René D. Flores. 2013. "Not Just Color: Whiteness, Nation, and Status in Latin America.” Hispanic American Historical Review. Vol. 93.
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  • Flores, René D. and Edward Telles. 2012. "Social Stratification in Mexico: Disentangling Color, Ethnicity, and Class.” American Sociological Review. 77:4 86−94. [Comment on Villareal 2010.] 


Book Chapters
  • Martínez Casas, Regina, Emiko Saldívar, René D. Flores and Christina Sue. 2014. "The Different Faces of Mestizaje: Ethnicity and Race in Mexico” in Edward Telles (ed) Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ​
 
  • Telles, Edward and René D. Flores. 2014. "A Reassessment of Ethnicity and Race in Latin America with PERLA findings” in Edward Telles (ed) Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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  • Miguel Angel Centeno, Jose Miguel Cruz, René D. Flores, and Gustavo Silva Cano. 2012. "Internal Wars and Latin American Nationalism,” in John A. Hall and Sinisa Malasevic (eds) Nationalism and War. Cambridge University Press. ​


Under Review​​ 
  • Flores, René D., María Vignau Loría, and Regina Martínez-Casas. "Symbolic Ethnicity? The Re-emergence of Indigeneity in Mexico.".
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