Recent Publications by MFP Fellows
Table of Contents
Books
Moving from the Margins: Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism
Edited by Margaret L. Andersen and Maxine Baca Zinn
Stanford University Press (2024)
Moving from the Margins features essays by prominent sociologists whose work has transformed the understanding of race and ethnicity, including Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (MFP Cohort 18), Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (MFP Cohort 36), Aldon Morris (MFP Cohort 4), Mary Romero (MFP Cohort 4), Rogelio Sáenz (MFP Cohort 10), and C. Matthew Snipp (MFP Cohort 1). Merging biography, memoir, and sociohistorical analysis, the essays provide vital insight into the influence of race on people’s perspectives and opportunities both inside and outside of academia, and how racial inequality is felt, experienced, and confronted.
The book is available for purchase here.
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
by Stephanie L Canizales
University of California Press (2024)
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Stephanie L Canizales (MFP Cohort 43) shows how unaccompanied teens in Los Angeles who grow up as undocumented low-wage workers navigate unthinkable material and emotional hardship, find the agency and hope that is required to survive, and discover what it means to be successful during the transition to adulthood in the U.S.
Dr. Canizales’s book is available for purchase here.
Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence
by Patricia Hill Collins
Polity Press (2023)
In this book, Patricia Hill Collins (MFP Cohort 7) explores how violence differentially affects people according to their class, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what Dr. Collins terms “lethal intersections,” where multiple forms of oppression converge to catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on particular groups. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases, Lethal Intersections challenges readers to reflect on what counts as violence today and what can be done about it.
Dr. Collins’s book is available for purchase here.
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
by Celeste Vaughan Curington
Rutgers University Press (2024)
Celeste Vaughan Curington (MFP Cohort 43) examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render African women “hyper-invisible” and “hyper-visible” as “appropriate” workers in Lisbon.
Dr. Curington’s book is available for purchase here.
Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia
by Louis Edgar Esparza
Lexington Books (2023)
Fields of Fire identifies the concept of the emancipatory network as a coordination of loose, discrete, and differentiated actors to explain how activists successfully practice high-risk activism. Illustrating that previous studies on high-risk activism come to contradictory conclusions, Louis Edgar Esparza (MFP Cohort 35) argues that networks rather than individual characteristics are associated with mobilization.
Dr. Esparza’s book is available for purchase here.
We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place
by Shani Adia Evans
University of Chicago Press (2025)
Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called “America’s Whitest city,” Black residents who grew up there made it their own. The neighborhoods of Northeast Portland, also called “Albina,” were a haven for and a hub of Black community life. But between 1990 and 2010, Albina changed dramatically—it became majority White. In We Belong Here, Shani Adia Evans (MFP Cohort 41) offers an intimate look at gentrification from the inside, documenting the reactions of Albina residents as the racial demographics of their neighborhood shift.
Dr. Evans’s book is available for purchase here.
Cover photo provided courtesy of the University of Chicago Press.
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
by Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.
Princeton University Press (2021)
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. (MFP Cohort 40) examines how food availability, choice, and consumption vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity.
Dr. Ewoodzie’s book is available for purchase here.
Have Repertoire, Will Travel: Nonviolence as Global Contentious Performance
by Selina R. Gallo-Cruz
Cambridge University Press (2024)
In this Cambridge Element, Selina R. Gallo-Cruz (MFP Cohort 38) describes how nonviolence has evolved into a global repertoire, a patterned form of contentious political performance that has spread as an international movement of movements, systematizing and institutionalizing particular forms of protest as best claims-making practice.
Dr. Gallo-Cruz’s book is available for purchase here.
The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach
by Aaryn L. Green, Maretta Darnell McDonald, Veronica A. Newton, Candice C. Robinson, and Shantee Rosado
Routledge (2025)
In this book, authors Aaryn L. Green, Maretta Darnell McDonald (MFP Cohort 48), Veronica A. Newton, Candice C. Robinson, and Shantee Rosado creatively explore topics of Black and Latinx femininity, motherhood, sexuality, racial and ethnic identity, and political engagement through the life and artistic work of Hip Hop artist Cardi B. The Sociology of Cardi B argues for the merits of addressing Black feminist theory from the bottom up—that is, to take seriously the knowledge production of Black women by attending to and creating space for “hood chicks, ghetto girls, and ratchet women.”
The book is available for purchase here.
Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery
by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
Cambridge University Press (2022)
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (MFP Cohort 36) describes the lives of marginalized informal domestic workers called ‘adopted daughters’ but who live in slave-like conditions in the homes of their adoptive families. She explores how these ‘filhas de criação’ navigate the realities of their structural constraints within the context of pervasive norms of morality, gratitude, and kinship.
Dr. Hordge-Freeman’s book is available for purchase here.
Listen to Dr. Hordge-Freeman discuss her book on the New Books Network podcast here.
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
by Nadia Y. Kim
Stanford University Press (2021)
Nadia Y. Kim (MFP Cohort 26) tells the stories of the immigrant women behind the grassroots movement for environmental justice in L.A., finding that they are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country’s nativist racism and system of class injustice.
Dr. Kim’s book is available for purchase here.
Listen to Dr. Kim discuss her book on the Sociologists Talking Real Sh*t podcast (hosted by James McKeever, MFP Cohort 32) here.
Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies
Edited by Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra
NYU Press (2023)
Disciplinary Futures reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science research and methods. Featuring original essays from scholars including MFP Fellows Yến Lê Espiritu (MFP Cohort 14), Nadia Y. Kim (MFP Cohort 26), Gilda L. Ochoa (MFP Cohort 19), and Yvonne P. Sherwood (MFP Cohort 46), the volume offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism.
The book is available for purchase here.
Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade
Edited by Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger
University of California Press (2024)
Fighting Mad is a book about what “reproductive justice” means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn (MFP Cohort 39) and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on abortion access and care. They discuss abortion restrictions and strategies to provide care, the impacts of criminalization, efforts to protect the targeted, shortcomings of the past, and visions for the next generation.
The book is available for purchase here.
Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South
by Corey J. Miles
University Press of Mississippi (2023)
Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use “vibe” as a mode of knowing and communication, Corey J. Miles (MFP Cohort 45) narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the “carceral South,” to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness.
Dr. Miles’s book is available for purchase here.
The Third Net: The Hidden System of Migrant Health Care
by Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Erin Hoekstra, and Anthony M. Jimenez
NYU Press (2024)
The United States’ health care system not only consists of a formal safety net, but also an informal and disjointed network of organizations that offer basic care to millions of migrants. This “Third Net” provides free or low-cost health care for the undocumented, low-income, and uninsured migrants who are excluded from the formal system. In The Third Net, Lisa Sun-Hee Park (MFP Cohort 21), Erin Hoekstra, and Anthony M. Jimenez examine these alternative health care spaces and expose the inequities entrenched in the broader health care system.
The book is available for purchase here.
Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington
by Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, and Darryl L. Chambers
Rutgers University Press (2023)
Authors Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens (MFP Cohort 45) and Darryl L. Chambers, along with their team of street ethnographers from Wilmington, Delaware, offer a radical re-conceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities, describing the penchant for violence and involvement in crime overall to be a logical, “resilient” response to the perverse context of structural inequality.
The book is available for purchase here.
Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities
by Silvia Pedraza and Carlos Romero
University of Florida Press (2023)
In Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela, authors Silvia Pedraza (MFP Cohort 4) and Carlos Romero compare the sociopolitical processes behind the revolutions of Cuba in 1959 and Venezuela in 1999. Pedraza and Romero discuss issues of politics, economics, migrations, authoritarianism, human rights, and democracy in two nations that hoped to make a better world through their revolutionary journeys.
The book is available for purchase here.
(Cover Image: PAINTING OF THE BOAT WHERE ÉMIGRÉS WILL BE LEAVING, Oil painting by Aldo Menéndez, Miami, Florida, 2020. Reprinted with permission of the University Press of Florida.)
Applied Regression Models in the Social Sciences
by Dudley L. Poston, Jr, Eugenia Conde, and Layton M. Field
Cambridge University Press (2023)
Co-authored by Dudley L. Poston, Eugenia Conde (MFP Cohort 37), and Layton M. Field, this textbook guides students in the use of regression models in testing and evaluating hypotheses dealing with social relationships. A range of statistical methods suited to a wide variety of dependent variables is explained, with each chapter containing example applications using relevant statistical methods in both Stata and R. A full suite of online resources supports the student to work independently with the data, and the instructor to deliver the most effective possible course.
The book is available for purchase here.
Research Handbook on Intersectionality
Edited by Mary Romero
Edward Elgar Publishing (2023)
Critical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research. Contributors include MFP Fellows Marcus Anthony Hunter (MFP Cohort 35), Nadia Y. Kim (MFP Cohort 26), and Mary Romero (MFP Cohort 4).
The book is available for purchase here.
Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue
by Elena Shih
University of California Press (2023)
Manufacturing Freedom by Elena Shih (MFP Cohort 40) is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Dr. Shih argues that anti‑trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.
Dr. Shih’s book is available for purchase here.
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
Stanford University Press (2023)
Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle (MFP Cohort 41) explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics in the Global South.
Dr. Shokooh Valle’s book is available for purchase here.
Watch Dr. Shokooh Valle’s book talk with the Data + Feminism Lab at MIT here.
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America
by Stacy Torres
University of California Press (2025)
To understand elders’ experiences of aging in place, Stacy Torres (MFP Cohort 40) spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. At Home in the City uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America.
Dr. Torres’s book is available for purchase here.
Read a book excerpt and related blog post by Dr. Torres here.
Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture
by David Yamane
Exposit Books (2024)
A lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, David Yamane (MFP Cohort 18) became a new gun owner as a 42-year-old and embarked on an immersive twelve-year study of American gun culture. Weaving together his personal experiences and sociological observations to explain why guns make sense to those who own them, he illuminates defensive gun ownership, the risk of negative outcomes associated with firearms, and what responsible gun ownership looks like in the twenty-first century.
Dr. Yamane’s book is available for purchase here.
(Cover Image: From Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture © 2024 David Yamane by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640. www.mcfarlandbooks.com.)
Journal Articles
Paradoxical Politics? Partisan Politics, Ethnoracial Ideologies, and the Assimilated Consciousnesses of Latinx Republicans
by Roger Sargent Cadena
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (November 2022)
To understand how Latino Republicans reconcile the perceived contradiction between their ethnoracial and partisan identities, Roger Sargent Cadena (MFP Cohort 51) conducted original, in-depth interviews. Cadena shows how respondents challenge the belief that Latinos should automatically reject the Republican Party as they see themselves as deserving, hardworking, and acculturated Latino Americans.
Read the full article here.
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula
by Roger Sargent Cadena
Sociology Compass (August 2023)
Synthesizing Du Bois’s writings from 1920-1940, Roger Sargent Cadena (MFP Cohort 51) overviews Du Bois’s theorization that White-dominated curricula construct race-class student divisions and naturalize inequalities. In doing so, Cadena argues that we need more studies examining what students learn and teachers teach since schools help form Americans’ long-term social-political identities and ideologies.
Read the full article here.
Active Inference and Social Actors: Towards a Neuro-Bio-Social Theory of Brains and Bodies in Their Worlds
by Jacob E. Cheadle, K.J. Davidson-Turner, and Bridget J. Goosby
Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology (March 2024)
Co-authors Jacob E. Cheadle, K.J. Davidson-Turner, and Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27) introduce the Active Inference Framework (AIF), which casts the brain as a Bayesian “inference engine” that tests its “top–down” predictive models against “bottom–up” sensory error streams in its attempts to resolve uncertainty and make the world more predictable. After assembling and presenting key concepts in the AIF, the authors describe an integrated neuro-bio-social model that prioritizes the microsociological assertion that the scene of action is the situation, wherein brains enculturate.
Read the full article here.
Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco
by Nima Dahir and Jackelyn Hwang
City & Community (March 2025)
Using a self-constructed dataset of all residential transactions in San Francisco from 1990 to 2017, co-authors Nima Dahir and Jackelyn Hwang (MFP Cohort 41) consider how the ethnoracial composition of ownership differs from that of residents and how this difference relates to neighborhood change.
Read the full article here.
A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics
by Faith M. Deckard, Andrew Messamore, Bridget J. Goosby, and Jacob E. Cheadle
Social Psychology Quarterly (September 2023)
“A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics,” Social Psychology Quarterly‘s September 2023 featured article, examines the day-to-day association between racial discrimination and mental health. Its co-authors include MFP Fellows Faith M. Deckard (MFP Cohort 50) and Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27).
Read the full article here.
Listen to Faith and Andrew discuss the article here.
Five hypothesized biological mechanisms linking adverse childhood experiences with anxiety, depression, and PTSD: A scoping review
by Laura H. Dosanjh, Samantha Lauby, Jaime Fuentes, Yessenia Castro, Fiona N. Conway, Frances A. Champagne, Cynthia Franklin, and Bridget J. Goosby
Neuroscience & Behavioral Reviews (April 2025)
This scoping review, co-authored by Laura H. Dosanjh, Samantha Lauby, Jaime Fuentes, Yessenia Castro, Fiona N. Conway, Frances A. Champagne, Cynthia Franklin, and Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27), surveyed research conducting mediation analysis examining the indirect effect of any of five biological markers on the relationship between ACEs and anxiety, depression, or PTSD. It further surveyed the use of theory in these analyses.
Read the full article here.
Peace Bishops: Lessons from Dom Hélder Câmara in Brazil: Inquiry, teaching, and aesthetics
by Louis Edgar Esparza
The Journal of Social Encounters (September 2024)
In this article, Louis Edgar Esparza (MFP Cohort 35) explains how Dom Hélder Câmara, archbishop of Olinda and Recife, used the traditions of critical inquiry, Catholic social teaching, and cultural aesthetics to advocate for the poor in the northeast of Brazil during the military dictatorship of 1964-1985. Drawing from social movement and theological sources, the article then proceeds to highlight critical inquiry, Catholic social teaching, and cultural aesthetics as driving forces in Câmara’s work.
Read the full article here.
Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early to Mid-adulthood
by Michale A. Garcia, Belinda L. Needham, Bridget J. Goosby, Robert A. Hummer, Hui Liu, and Debra Umberson
Journal of Health and Social Behavior (October 2024)
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, co-authors Michale A. Garcia, Belinda L. Needham, Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27), Robert A. Hummer, Hui Liu, and Debra Umberson explore associations between early parental death and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in early to mid-adulthood, and how these associations vary by race.
Read the full article here.
The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism
by Bridget J. Goosby and Jacob E. Cheadle
Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology (May 2024)
In this article, co-authors Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27) and Jacob E. Cheadle examine the relationship between social inequity and the immune system, emphasizing some of the many ways that systemic racism and other forms of marginalization can undermine health.
Read the full article here.
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids
by Bridget J. Goosby, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, and Amy Zhang
Journal of Health and Social Behavior (September 2024)
Black women are disproportionately more likely to experience uterine fibroids, with earlier onset and more severe symptoms. This study leverages a national mixed-methods data set of Black women academics to examine how they describe symptomatic fibroids impacting their careers and lives. Its co-authors include Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27), Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, and Amy Zhang.
Read the full article here.
The Independent and Interactive Effects of Economic Stability and Healthcare Access on 10-Year Cognitive Trajectories of Black/African American and White Older Adults from the ACTIVE Study
by Abbey M Hamlin, Alexandra J Weigand, Olivio J Clay, Michael Marsiske, Gail Wallace, Deborah Dadson, Kelsey R Thomas, and Alexandra L Clark
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (February 2025)
This study examined the independent and interactive effects of economic stability and healthcare access on 10-year change in cognitive functioning within a large sample of racially diverse community-dwelling older adults. Its co-authors include Abbey M Hamlin, Alexandra J Weigand, Olivio J Clay, Michael Marsiske, Gail Wallace (MFP Cohort 28), Deborah Dadson, Kelsey R Thomas, and Alexandra L Clark.
Read the full article here.
Categorical closure: Transitivity and identities in longitudinal networks
by Chen-Shuo Hong, Anthony Paik, Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Carole Silver, and Steven Boutcher
Social Networks (October 2024)
Using longitudinal network data and separable temporal exponential random graph models, authors Chen-Shuo Hong, Anthony Paik (MFP Cohort 26), Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Carole Silver, and Steven Boutcher examine whether categorical closure – an increased tendency for closure in homogeneous triads – matters for social networks.
Read the full article here.
Sympathetic arousal among depressed college students: Examining the interplay between psychopathology and social activity
by Elizabeth Jelsma, Amy Zhang, Bridget J. Goosby, and Jacob E. Cheadle
Psychophysiology (May 2024)
Using a novel ambulatory protocol that tracked both objective features of affective arousal (electrodermal activity) and subjective valence (self-reported) during college students’ social interactions, co-authors Elizabeth Jelsma, Amy Zhang, Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27), and Jacob E. Cheadle evaluated the moderating role of depression and loneliness symptoms on the associations between socializing with others (specifically, with a romantic partner, a close friend, or a group of friends) and the arousal and valence dimensions of affect.
Read the full article here.
American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) adolescents and obesity: the influence of social determinants of health, mental health, and substance use
by Michelle D. Johnson-Jennings, Margaret Reid, Luohua Jiang, Kimberly R. Huyser, Angela G. Brega, John F. Steine, Spero M. Manson, Jenny Chang, Amber L. Fyfe-Johnson, Vanessa Hiratsuka, Cheryl Conway, and Joan O’Connell
International Journal of Obesity (April 2023)
In this study, co-authors Michelle D. Johnson-Jennings, Margaret Reid, Luohua Jiang, Kimberly R. Huyser (MFP Cohort 34), Angela G. Brega, John F. Steine, Spero M. Manson, Jenny Chang, Amber L. Fyfe-Johnson, Vanessa Hiratsuka, Cheryl Conway, and Joan O’Connell explore the prevalence of obesity among American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents aged 12–19 years in association with social determinants of health and mental health and substance use disorders.
Read the full article here.
Employee mobility networks and status transfer in U.S big law
by Yeongsu (Anthony) Kim, Anthony Paik, and Eugene See
Journal of General Management (November 2022)
Authors Yeongsu (Anthony) Kim, Anthony Paik (MFP Cohort 26), and Eugene See examine employee mobility across the largest law firms in the United States from 2010 to 2016 and employ fixed effects modeling to estimate associations among the status of firms from which partners were hired, network centrality, and the organizational status of hiring firms.
Read the full article here.
Structural racism in primary schools and changes in epigenetic age acceleration among Black and White youth
by Connor D. Martz, Aprile D. Benner, Bridget J. Goosby, Colter Mithcell, and Lauren Gaydosh
Social Science & Medicine (April 2024)
Black youth are disproportionately exposed to adverse school contexts that may become biologically embedded via stress-mediated epigenetic pathways. Co-authors Connor D. Martz, Aprile D. Benner, Bridget J. Goosby (MFP Cohort 27), Colter Mithcell, and Lauren Gaydosh examine whether childhood exposure to adverse school contexts is associated with changes in epigenetic aging during adolescent development.
Read the full article here.
Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians
by Demetrius Miles Murphy
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (October 2024)
Analyzing five prominent Brazilian cases of racial violence through computational text analysis and qualitative interpretation of Twitter data, Demetrius Miles Murphy (MFP Cohort 50) examines the racial ideologies Brazilians employ within the context of police killings of Afro-Brazilians.
Read the full article here.
Listen to Demetrius discuss the article here.
“Defriending” in a polarized age: Political and racial homophily and tie dissolution
by Anthony Paik, Mark C. Pachucki, and Hsin Fei Tu
Social Networks (July 2023)
Given increased political polarization and racial tension in the wake of the 2016 presidential election in the United States, this study by Anthony Paik (MFP Cohort 26), Mark C. Pachucki, and Hsin Fei Tu examines dropped ties in personal networks at that time based on political and racial identities.
Read the full article here.
Caring in the classroom: the hidden toll of emotional labor of abolitionist scholar-activism
by S.M. Rodriguez
Contemporary Justice Review (February 2023)
In “Caring in the classroom: the hidden toll of emotional labor of abolitionist scholar-activism,” S.M. Rodriguez (MFP Cohort 41) draws upon in-depth, international interviews with academics teaching in universities and prisons to explore how the emotional labors of “hope work” and “care work” take a toll on abolitionist scholars.
Read the full article here.
“Safety” and “Protection” as Shared Grievances and Oblique Identification in Educational Organizations
by Uriel Serrano and Andrea Del Carmen Vazquez
Educational Researcher (March 2025)
In this article, Uriel Serrano (MFP Cohort 47) and Andrea Del Carmen Vazquez draw on participant observations from two large research projects in California—one in an urban context and the other in an agricultural landscape—to provide a symptomatic reading of responses to demands to defund school police in 2020.
Read the full article here.
Keeping birth at home: Community and service provider visions for perinatal wellness and continued Inuit childbirth in Nunavik
by Hila Silver, Elisapi Padlayat, Pasha Saviakjuk, Ivan Sarmiento, Richard Budgell, Anne Cockcroft, Zoua M. Vang, and Neil Andersson
Women and Birth (November 2024)
In this article, co-authors Hila Silver, Elisapi Padlayat, Pasha Saviakjuk, Ivan Sarmiento, Richard Budgell, Anne Cockcroft, Zoua M. Vang (MFP Cohort 28), and Neil Andersson explore community views on protective factors of maternal and family perinatal wellness and continued local birthing.
Read the full article here.
Pain and Functional Limitations Among Midlife and Older Canadians: The Role of Discrimination, Race, and Sense of Belonging
by Zoua M. Vang, Shirley Chau, Karen M Kobayashi, Mary J Owen, Safyer McKenzie-Sampson, Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert, and Gregory M Bras
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (April 2024)
Co-authors Zoua M. Vang (MFP Cohort 28), Shirley Chau, Karen M Kobayashi, Mary J Owen, Safyer McKenzie-Sampson, Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert, and Gregory M Brass drew on fundamental cause theory and the weathering hypothesis to examine how discrimination influences aging for midlife and older adults in Canada.
Read the full article here.
Associations of Subjective Memory with Life Space and Neighborhood Built Environment in Older Adults in the ACTIVE Study
by Gail Wallace, Tyler Bell, Sheila Black, Michael Crowe, Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., Caitlin Pope, and George W. Rebok
Journal of Aging and Health (March 2024)
In this study, co-authors Gail Wallace (MFP Cohort 28), Tyler Bell, Sheila Black, Michael Crowe, Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., Caitlin Pope, and George W. Rebok examine the influence of life space and NBE on subjective memory in a group of community-dwelling older adults participating in the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study.
Read the full article here.
Birth and postnatal outcomes among infants of immigrant parents of different admission categories and parents born in Canada: a population-based retrospective study
by Seungmi Yang, Gabriel D. Shapiro, Edward Ng, Bilkis Vissandjée, and Zoua M. Vang
Canadian Medical Association Journal (April 2024)
Most studies of disparities in birth and postnatal outcomes by parental birthplace combine all immigrants into a single group. In this article, co-authors Seungmi Yang, Gabriel D. Shapiro, Edward Ng, Bilkis Vissandjée, and Zoua M. Vang (MFP Cohort 28) evaluated heterogeneity among immigrants in Canada by comparing birth and postnatal outcomes across different immigration categories.
Read the full article here.
Reports
Why the federal government needs to change how it collects data on Native Americans
by Robert Maxim, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Kimberly R. Huyser
The Brookings Institution (March 2023)
Robert Maxim, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Kimberly Huyser (MFP Cohort 34) co-authored a Brookings research report that examines how racial data taken from surveys such as the U.S. Census is collected, aggregated, and published in such a way that it often misrepresents or excludes Native American populations, which can “bias research, contribute to negative policy impacts, and perpetuate long-standing misunderstandings.”
Read the report here.
