Celeste Vaughan Curington is a doctoral candidate at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, and a 2016-2017 American Sociological Association
Minority Fellow. Her several lines of research examine race, class and
gender through the lens of care labor and migration, family, housing and
assortative mating. Her published work has appeared in the American
Sociological Review, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and the London
School of Economics USAPP American Politics and Policy Blog, as well as
in several media outlets such as The New York Times, Washington Post,
Time Magazine, and NBC.
Her dissertation ethnography centers on the position of African
transnational migrants to Lisbon, Portugal, at a time of economic
crisis, care deficit, and increased anti-immigrant sentiment. She
analyzes Cape Verdean eldercare workers' struggles and resiliencies as
paid and unpaid caregivers, migrants, mothers and racialized workers in a
former colonial metropole.
Her other areas of research include residential segregation and
neighborhood choice, multiracial identity, and online mate selection.
She is currently pursuing two collaborative projects - one uses data
from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS) and the US
Census to examine the locational attainment of interracial households,
and the other is an interview study that centers on interracial couples'
neighborhood choices. Celeste has received support from the American
Sociological Assocation, the National Science Foundation, and the UMass
Graduate School.
This article compares the locational attainment of interracial households in Los Angeles County to that of monoracial Black, Asian and Latino households and finds three major additive and non-additive results.
This article forwards an integrative multiracial formation perspective that analyzes race, class, and gender as complex social systems, predicated on racism, patriarchy, and economic exploitation.
Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups.