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I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Molloy University in Rockville Centre, NY. My work focuses on racial politics, media, and democracy. I have published widely on the connections between racial oppression, struggles for racial equality, political conflicts, debates over public policy, and everyday social life in various scholarly and public outlets. My work emphasizes social change, policy, and community and civic engagement. I teach on a range of topics including sociological theory, popular culture, social inequalities, race and ethnicity, drugs and society, and political sociology.
Bourgeois Coldness (Divided Publishing, 2025) refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois co…
Few places are more notorious for civil rights–era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” murders. Yet in…
While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Car…
Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation (NYU Press, 2025) By Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon W.E.B…