Professors Valdez and Golash-Boza published the lead article in a symposium for Ethnic and Racial Studies. The article reveals the limitations of a research program that focuses on ethnicity or race, in isolation, and instead urges a new direction that brings them together. By connecting two separate threads of sociological knowledge -- the ethnicity paradigm, with its focus on group dynamics and inclusion, and the race paradigm, which underscores structural racism and exclusion, they offer a unifying approach that explains how systems of oppression and privilege condition members' life chances within the highly stratified U.S. social structure. The article can be accessed here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2016.1262052
