Mar 16, 2015
Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’ featured on Vox
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My co-authored work on research designs that allow scholars to estimate effects of race has been featured in Vox:
…quantitative researchers should acknowledge that any one person’s racial identity is more like a collection of many different factors — from skin color, to neighborhood, to language, to socioeconomic status.
See more: Finally, a way to research race that reflects how complicated it is
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. I received a PhD in African American Studies, an MA in Government and an MA in Statistics from Harvard University. Previously, I co-founded BlackPlanet.com and the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School. I can be reached at owasow -at- gmail -dot- com.