Edward Telles is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America, based on the multinational and multidisciplinary Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA), which he directed. He also wrote Race in Another America, 2004, which won the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association, the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for the best book in Social Demography and several other awards; Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race, 2008 with Ortiz, also won the Duncan Award, as well as the Best Book Award from the Pacific Sociological Association.

Christina A. Sue is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research is in the areas of comparative race/ethnicity, race mixture/multiracialism, Latino/a integration, immigration, and gender, with a regional focus on Latin America and the United States. In 2013 she published Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico (Oxford University Press) which examines how national ideologies in Mexico influence Mexicans' understandings of racism, race mixture, and blackness.

Received Honorable Mention for the Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, ASA Section on International Migration

"Telles and Sue open up new directions for scholarship on this topic." -- Bridget Eileen Rivera, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - American Sociological Association

"[T]he authors do much more than merely challenge assimilationism. They offer a better framework to account for what is lacking in assimilationist literature, presenting ethnicity and mainstream culture as headed in the same direction." -- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

"Durable Ethnicity is a wonderful contribution to our understanding of ethnoracial identity and the literature on race, ethnicity, and assimilation." -- Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, American Journal of Sociology