My research examines how people experience and make sense of class, race, place, and inequality, especially educational inequalities. In my current work, I focus on suburban communities, which are home to an increasing share of the population, rising racial and ethnic diversity, and rising inequality. With more immigrants, people of color, and low-income people now residing in suburbia, suburbs are key sites for understanding the intersections of race, class, and place. And Suburban schools are places where inequalities are particularly evident; as such, they offer a valuable window into the contemporary landscape of racial inequality.
In my approach to studying racial inequality, I tend to focus on marginalized people, centering the experiences of those on the margins of their communities and society. In addition, my work focuses on the intersection of class and race, striving to attend to racism in a way that centers material disadvantage in addition to examining symbolic harm. And finally, my work is explicitly concerned with not just understanding, but also unraveling social inequalities on the basis of race and class.