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Expertise

Race; Mixedness/Multiraciality; 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, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the president of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association (CMRSA). Her research explores how institutions (i.e., family), inequality (i.e., monoracism) and privilege (i.e., white privilege by proxy) shape multiracial America. As a conceptual sociologist and autoethnographer, Waring’s scholarship pushes the epistemological and methodological boundaries of traditional research. Her work has been published in "Sociology of Race and Ethnicity," "Ethnic and Racial Studies," "Sociology Compass," "Whiteness and Education," "Sociological Perspectives," "DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race," among other peer-reviewed journals. Previously, she was an associate professor of sociology and race & ethnic studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she was a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow and the faculty advisor for mXd, a multiracial student organization.

Selected Publications

• Honorary Whites and Overlooked People of Color: The Racial Conundrum of Multiracial Americans and Asian Americans. (2026)
• The Manifestation and Contestation of White Privilege in Multiracial Families: A Disruption. (2025)
• “My Dad Is Racist as Hell:” Navigating Racism, Monoracism, and White Privilege by Proxy in Multiracial Families (2025)
• Teaching and Proximity to Whiteness: a Black Biracial and Light-Skinned Latina Professor Reflect (2025)
• “We are Going to Be the New White [People]:” Multiracial Americans Envision the Future (2024)
• Appearance, Parentage, and Paradox: The White Privilege of Bi/Multiracial Americans with White Ancestry (2023)
• “Be Confident,” “Creative” and “Careful”: Advice from Multiracial Adults (2023)
• Waring, Chandra D. L. 2023. . 9(1):29-63.
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  • ASA Monthly Featured Article: January 2023
• Waring, Chandra D. L. and Samit D. Bordoloi. 2019. “‘I Don’t Look Like Her:’ Race, Resemblance and Relationships in Multiracial Families.” Sociological Perspectives. 62(2): 149-166.
  • Editor’s Pick
• Waring, Chandra D. L. 2017. “‘It’s Like We Have an ‘In’ Already:’ The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 14(1): 145-163.
  • 2011 Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) Graduate Student Paper Competition, 1st Place