Expertise
Race/racism, Bi/multiracial Americans, Intersections of race and gender, Qualitative research methods
Education
- Ph.D.: Sociology, University of Connecticut, 2013
- Dissertation: "Beyond 'Code-switching:' Racial Capital of Black / White Biracial Americans"
- Graduate Certificate: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut, 2010
- M.A: Sociology, University of Connecticut, 2009
- B.A.: Sociology, University of Connecticut, 2007
Biosketch
Chandra D. L. Waring's research focuses on the growing bi/multiracial American population. Her first study centered the experiences of Black/white biracials by exploring their family relationships, immigrant connections, dating patterns and preferences and their interactions with the white and Black communities. Her work decenters the short-sighted, yet convenient narrative that the increasing bi/multiracial Black/white population is evidence of a less racially contentious and more racially harmonious society. In a population that is often framed as the embodiment of a racial panacea, her work illuminates the complex and invisibilized racial realities of this community.
Her new study examines the comprehensive impact of whiteness in the bi/multiracial population of a variety of racial backgrounds (Black/white, Latinx/white, Asian/white and Indigenous/white). She explores how this subgroup articulates white privilege, how they experience white privilege and how white ancestry-and particularly appearing white-generates some disadvantages for them. She also investigates how their racial and ethnic backgrounds are policed by monoracials (single-race individuals). Her research complicates and updates the literature on white privilege and expands the scholarship on bi/multiracials by focusing on individuals of many bi/multiracial backgrounds.
Selected Publications
- Waring, Chandra D. L. 2023. . 9(1):29-63.
- Waring, Chandra D. L. 2023. .
- Waring, Chandra D. L. 2023. . 9(1):56-71.
- ASA Monthly Featured Article: January 2023
- Waring, Chandra D. L. and Samit D. Bordoloi. 2019. 鈥溾�業 Don鈥檛 Look Like Her:鈥� Race, Resemblance and Relationships in Multiracial Families.鈥� Sociological Perspectives. 62(2): 149-166.
- Editor鈥檚 Pick
- Waring, Chandra D. L. 2017. 鈥溾�業t鈥檚 Like We Have an 鈥業n鈥� Already:鈥� The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans.鈥� Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 14(1): 145-163.
- 2011 Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) Graduate Student Paper Competition, 1st Place