Education
University of California at Santa Barbara
Georg August Universität
Georg August Universität
Courses Taught
Research Interests
Scholarly Interests
My research interests are race and ethnicity in the US and in a comparative perspective, adolescence and schools, urban studies, and masculinity. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of a multiracial society, and the various collective strategies and forms of identity formation that emerge in a multiracial society.
Publications
Publications
Learning Difference - Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis (2006), Stanford University Press.
“Hoes can be hoed out, players can be played out, but pimp is for life: The Pimp as Strategy of Identity Formation,” Symbolic Interaction 28(3) (2005), pp. 407-428.
"Whiteness as Giftedness - Racial Formation at an Urban High School," Social Problems, Vol. 51, No. 2 (2004), pp. 161-181.
Presentations
"Teaching about Race and Surviving It,” Race and Pedagogy Conference, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, September 14-16, 2006.
"Black Mask White Skin: Satisfying Racial Fantasies through the Videogame Grand Theft Auto – San Andreas?", Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, August 10-14, 2006 (co-presentation with Will Duryea, Clarkson University).
"School Colors and Graffiti," Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, San Francisco, August 2004.
"When Service-Learning Examines Women and Men: Methodology, Logistics, and Ethics," Campus Compact Conference, Worcester, MA, April 15-16, 2004.
Co-Organizer and Chair of Panel: "Educational Anthropology and Its Role in Achieving Racial Equity II, American Anthropological Association at Council of Anthropology and Education," Canterbury Hotel, San Francisco, November 13-19, 2004.
"From Research to Policy and Institutional Change: Assessing Anthropology’s Effectiveness in Achieving Racial Equity in Education," at the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 18-23, 2003.