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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“What surprised me is that they try to humiliate me”: Conceptualizing the Role of Colonial Power Dynamics and Logics in Puerto Rican Postmigration Experiences
Journal of Latinx Psychology (2023)
The Shape of Knowledge: Situational Analysis in Counseling Psychology Research
Journal of Counseling Psychology (2021)
Can White Guilt Motivate Action? The Role of Civic Beliefs
Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2021)
White Privilege in the Classroom
Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (2021)
I Know (What) You Are But What Am I? The Effect of Recategorization Threat and Perceived Immutability on Prejudice
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2020)
Measuring Neoliberalism: Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of Anti-Neoliberal Attitudes
Social Justice Research (2020)
The White Racial Affect Scale (WRAS): Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of White Guilt, Shame, and Negation
The Counseling Psychologist (2020)
White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical-Conceptual Framework
The Counseling Psychologist (2019)
Clinical Encounters: The Social Justice Question in Intersectional Medicine
American Journal of Bioethics (2019)
Agency-Without-Choice: The Visual Rhetorics of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Promotion
Symbolic Interaction (2018)
Post-racial Fantasies and the Reproduction of Scientific Racism
American Journal of Bioethics (2017)
Applying Intersectionality Theory to Research on Perceived Racism
In The Cost of Racism to People fo Color (Alvarez, Liang, & Neville, Eds.), APA Books (2016)
My Bioethics will be Intersectional or It Will Be [Bleep]
American Journal of Bioethics (2017)
Different, Like Everyone Else: Stuff White People Like and the Marketplace of Diversity
Symbolic Interaction (2012)
White Guilt: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Emergent Racisms in the Contemporary United States
Dissertation, University of Maryland (2010)