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Intersectional Perspectives on the Family | 11:15 AM
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Leslie Wang

Leslie Wang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China (2016), published by Stanford University Press. Dr. Wang’s current project examines the causes and consequences of transnational parent-child separation within Chinese American families. In particular, her research team is investigating issues faced by “satellite babies”: U.S.-born infants and young children who are sent to China to be cared for by relatives for extended periods of time.

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Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon.  She received her B.A. from Princeton University (1998) and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley (2007).  She specializes in race/ethnicity, Mexican Americans/Latinos, family, intermarriage, and migration.  She has published two books:  Mexican Americans across Generations:  Immigrant Families, Racial Realities (New York University Press, 2011) and Marriage Vows and Racial Choices (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017).  Her articles are featured in Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Forum, Sociological Spectrum, and Du Bois Review.  She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. 

Pamela Jackson

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Dr. Pamela Braboy Jackson is a Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and formerly the Inaugural Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES). With grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ford Foundation, Henry A. Murray Research Center (Harvard), and National Institute of Aging, her research lies in the areas of race and ethnicity, mental health, social psychology, the family and life course processes. She is the author of “How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Family and Work" (with Dr. Rashawn Ray). In this book the authors explore the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians and social scientists. Relying on stories told by a racially/ethnically diverse group of forty-six families, the authors find that parents and siblings cultivate a family identity that both defines who they are and influence who they become. Her work in the areas of social psychology and minority mental health has also appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Forces, Health Affairs and Advances in Life Course Research, among others.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Parren Mitchell Symposium
    • 2020 Parren J. Mitchell Symposium >
      • Criminalization in Daily Life
      • Unequal Treatment and Enforcement
      • Responses and Solutions
    • 2019 PARREN MITCHELL SYMPOSIUM >
      • Intersectional Perspectives on the Family
      • Family Diversity and the Disruptive Force of the Law
      • Challenging, Expanding, and Reinventing the Family
    • 2018 Parren Mitchell Symposium >
      • Wealth Matters: Examining Racial Wealth Inequality
      • Wealth Building: Investing in Community Change
      • Wealth Solutions: Creating Wealth Equity for Communities of Color
    • 2017 Parren Mitchell Symposium >
      • The Power of Popular Culture
      • Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory: A Dialogue
      • The Politics of Racial Representation
    • 2016 Parren Mitchell Symposium >
      • Health Outcomes: For Better of For Worse
      • Health Strategies: From This Day Forward
    • 2015 Parren Mitchell Symposium
    • 2014 Parren Mitchell Symposium
    • Symposium Storified
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
    • CRI Event Photos
  • #Justice4RCIII
  • BLOG
    • A STATEMENT FROM OUR DIRECTOR ON THE LOSS OF BLACK LIVES
    • Asian American Activism
    • Black Feminist Thoughts
  • Election Reflections