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About the Contributors

Authors

Enobong Hannah Branch is a professor of Sociology and Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Her research interests are in race, racism, and inequality; intersectional theory; work and occupations; and diversity in science. She is the author of Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work (2011), and the editor of Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline (2016), as well as several journal articles and book chapters that explore the historical roots and contemporary underpinnings of inequality.

Christina Jackson is an assistant professor of Sociology at Stockton University in New Jersey. Her research interests are primarily in the intersections of race, class, and gender; social inequality; urban spaces; social movements; and the politics of redevelopment and gentrification. She is the co-author of Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse with Jamie A. Thomas (2019), as well as several journal articles and book chapters.

Contributing authors to chapters

Emmanuel Adero is a senior director in the Office of Equity and Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. He has conducted research on race and inequality, Black masculinity, fatherhood, and the family. He has previously served in numerous research and analytical roles related to demography, public policy, and crime analysis.

Lucius Couloute is an assistant professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. His research interests are in race and racism, class, gender, prisoner re-entry, criminalization, insecure work experiences, and organizations. He has also served as a policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative and has authored three policy reports related to the re-entry challenges of formerly incarcerated people.

Candace S. King is a Ph.D. student in the W. E. B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She is also an Emmy award-winning journalist (2017) for her coverage of the water crisis affecting predominantly Black communities in Flint, Michigan. Her research interests are in formations of Black female identities and misrepresentations in mainstream media.