Race, Racism, and Affect

Our research on race and racism foregrounds the emotional or “affective” dimensions of power and inequality. This work takes an intersectional approach to understanding how racial inequality manifests at the nexus of dimensions of difference, including gender and sexuality.

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Guilt, Shame, and/or Both? Further Validation of the White Racial Affect Scale

Journal of Counseling Psychology (2024)

Race, Racism, and Affect

Guilt, Shame, and/or Both? Further Validation of the White Racial Affect Scale

“What surprised me is that they try to humiliate me”: Conceptualizing the Role of Colonial Power Dynamics and Logics in Puerto Rican Postmigration Experiences

The Shape of Knowledge: Situational Analysis in Counseling Psychology Research

Can White Guilt Motivate Action? The Role of Civic Beliefs

White Privilege in the Classroom

I Know (What) You Are But What Am I? The Effect of Recategorization Threat and Perceived Immutability on Prejudice

Measuring Neoliberalism: Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of Anti-Neoliberal Attitudes

The White Racial Affect Scale (WRAS): Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of White Guilt, Shame, and Negation

White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical-Conceptual Framework

Clinical Encounters: The Social Justice Question in Intersectional Medicine

Agency-Without-Choice: The Visual Rhetorics of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Promotion

Post-racial Fantasies and the Reproduction of Scientific Racism

Applying Intersectionality Theory to Research on Perceived Racism

My Bioethics will be Intersectional or It Will Be [Bleep]

Different, Like Everyone Else: Stuff White People Like and the Marketplace of Diversity

White Guilt: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Emergent Racisms in the Contemporary United States