Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
Broadly speaking, my research agenda is to study the dialectical relationship between rising demographic heterogeneity and shifting race relations in the U.S. Changes in U.S. immigration law after World War II have directly affected the nation's demographic profile but have had less straightforward effects on intergroup relations. My central focus is on the theoretical debates within the sociology of race and ethnicity. In particular, I critique and extend racial formation theory through the empirical examination of its theoretical gaps and tensions with other paradigms that emphasize immigrant assimilation and Black exceptionalism.
