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Race and Ethnicity.

Immigration and Migration.

Social Psychology.

Political Economy.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Broadly speaking, my long-term research goal is to understand how race works throughout the Black Diaspora. Much of my previous work has focused on various structural factors that are associated with the ways in which African Americans think about and experience race and racial inequality. I am currently focused on comparisons between African Americans and Afro Caribbean immigrants in the US. I am particularly interested socioeconomic and political disparities between these two black ethnic groups and how these black ethnic disparities help shape black poverty and racial inequality in the US. Future projects will include black African immigrants and an analysis of black ethnicity and US foriegn policy to Africa and the Caribbean. I also have two working theoretical papers on race and racism in the US.

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, Department of Political Science, Mobilization, Change, and Political and Civic Engagement Project. Cathy Cohen and Michael Dawson (with funding from the Ford Foundation).

Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Government & Public Affairs, Race and Public Policy Working Group. Tyrone Forman.

Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, Department of Political Science, Black Youth and Empowerment: Sex, Politics and Culture. Cathy Cohen (with funding from the Ford Foundation).

Interviewer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Sociology, Chicago Area Study. Maria Krysan and Tyrone Forman (with funding from the National Science Foundation).