Contributing Authors
- Contributing Authors
maría isabel ayala (PhD, Texas A&M) is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University. Her research agenda examines the social impact that the unique and complex racialization of Latinos in the United States has on their social behavior. Challenging the assumption that there is a common Latino experience, she argues that Latinos within-group differential opportunities for social mobility based on today’s more fluid, yet still hierarchical, racial structure play a critical role in their differential educational attainment. Moreover, she explores the role of identities in changing these structures.
sandra l. barnes is the assistant vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion, and a professor at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on inequality, urban sociology, and the black church.
cheryl d. childers is associate professor of sociology in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Her areas of teaching and research include social inequality and social change. She has published articles, contributed book chapters to collected works, co-authored an edited book, and given conference presentations on various aspects of inequality, including elderly women in disasters; cultural effects on inequality, specifically in education and work; race/ethnicity and sex in popular culture, specifically print advertising and film; and women of various racial/ethnic groups active in social protest in the nineteenth century.
angela cowser is an assistant professor of the sociology of religion at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is a sociologist of religion, community organizer, and pastor whose research focuses on social justice.
thomas xavier sarmiento is an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University. He specializes in diasporic Filipinx American, queer, and midwestern literature and culture. His article “The Empire Sings Back: Glee’s Queer Materialization of Filipina/o America,” appeared in the summer 2014 “Visual Culture and Race” special issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. [End Page 178]
