Mara Loveman

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Mara Loveman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Mara Loveman has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 3 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Mara Loveman's work include Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (5 papers), Politics and Society in Latin America (4 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (3 papers). Mara Loveman is often cited by papers focused on Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (5 papers), Politics and Society in Latin America (4 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (3 papers). Mara Loveman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Brazil. Mara Loveman's co-authors include Peter Stamatov, Rogers Brubaker, Jerônimo Oliveira Muniz, Stanley R. Bailey, Jonathan Warren and Sarah K. Bruch and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Mara Loveman

22 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. National Colors
    2014 218 citations Mara Loveman Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Peers

Mara Loveman
Jon Fox United Kingdom
Michel Wieviorka France
Andrew Markus Australia
Julian Go United States
Lynn Stephen United States
Chris Rumford United Kingdom
Kitty Calavita United States
Nick Vaughan‐Williams United Kingdom
Roxanne Lynn Doty United States
Donna R. Gabaccía United States
Jon Fox United Kingdom
Mara Loveman
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Countries citing papers authored by Mara Loveman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mara Loveman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mara Loveman

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All Works

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Bailey, Stanley R., et al.. (2018). How States Make Race: New Evidence from Brazil. Sociological Science. 5. 722–751. 16 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2014). National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America. OUP Catalogue. 4 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2014). Travelling abroad with a map of a made-in-the-USA neo-liberal city. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37(10). 1753–1760. 5 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2014). National Colors. Oxford University Press eBooks. 218 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bailey, Stanley R., Mara Loveman, & Jerônimo Oliveira Muniz. (2012). Measures of “Race” and the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil. Social Science Research. 42(1). 106–119. 117 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara, Jerônimo Oliveira Muniz, & Stanley R. Bailey. (2011). Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 35(8). 1466–1483. 65 indexed citations
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Bruch, Sarah K. & Mara Loveman. (2011). Measuring and Modeling Race as a Multidimensional Construct: Evidence from Research on Racial Disparities in Education. 4 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2009). Whiteness in Latin America: measurement and meaning in national censuses (1850-1950). Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 95(2). 207–234. 22 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2009). The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920). Hispanic American Historical Review. 89(3). 435–470. 30 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2007). THE U.S. CENSUS AND THE CONTESTED RULES OF RACIAL CLASSIFICATION IN EARLY TWENTIETH - CENTURY PUERTO RICO. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 35(2). 79–114. 22 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara & Jerônimo Oliveira Muniz. (2007). How Puerto Rico Became White: Boundary Dynamics and Intercensus Racial Reclassification. American Sociological Review. 72(6). 915–939. 132 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2006). Blinded Like a State: The Revolt against Civil Registration in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 49(1). 5–39. 20 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2006). How Puerto Rico Became White: An Analysis of Racial Statistics in the 1910 and 1920 Censuses. 1 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (2005). The Modern State and the Primitive Accumulation of Symbolic Power. American Journal of Sociology. 110(6). 1651–1683. 169 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (1999). Is "Race" Essential?. American Sociological Review. 64(6). 891–891. 123 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (1999). Is “Race” Essential?. American Sociological Review. 64(6). 891–898. 29 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (1999). Making "race" and nation in the United States, South Africa, and Brazil: Taking Making seriously. Theory and Society. 28(6). 903–927. 15 indexed citations
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Loveman, Mara. (1998). High‐Risk Collective Action: Defending Human Rights in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. American Journal of Sociology. 104(2). 477–525. 192 indexed citations

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