Race, Racism, and Affect

Our research on race and racism foregrounds the emotional or “affective” dimensions of power and inequality. This work takes an intersectional approach to understanding how racial inequality manifests at the nexus of dimensions of difference, including gender and sexuality.

If you have trouble accessing any of the following articles, please contact Dr. Patrick Grzanka directly.

“What surprised me is that they try to humiliate me”: Conceptualizing the Role of Colonial Power Dynamics and Logics in Puerto Rican Postmigration Experiences

Journal of Latinx Psychology (2023)

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The Shape of Knowledge: Situational Analysis in Counseling Psychology Research

Journal of Counseling Psychology (2021)

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Can White Guilt Motivate Action? The Role of Civic Beliefs

Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2021)


 
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White Privilege in the Classroom

Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (2021)

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I Know (What) You Are But What Am I? The Effect of Recategorization Threat and Perceived Immutability on Prejudice

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2020)

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Measuring Neoliberalism: Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of Anti-Neoliberal Attitudes

Social Justice Research (2020)

 
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The White Racial Affect Scale (WRAS): Development and Initial Validation of a Scale of White Guilt, Shame, and Negation

The Counseling Psychologist (2020)

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White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical-Conceptual Framework

The Counseling Psychologist (2019)

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Clinical Encounters: The Social Justice Question in Intersectional Medicine

American Journal of Bioethics (2019)

 
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Agency-Without-Choice: The Visual Rhetorics of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Promotion

Symbolic Interaction (2018)

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Post-racial Fantasies and the Reproduction of Scientific Racism

American Journal of Bioethics (2017)

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Applying Intersectionality Theory to Research on Perceived Racism

In The Cost of Racism to People fo Color (Alvarez, Liang, & Neville, Eds.), APA Books (2016)

 
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My Bioethics will be Intersectional or It Will Be [Bleep]

American Journal of Bioethics (2017)

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Different, Like Everyone Else: Stuff White People Like and the Marketplace of Diversity

Symbolic Interaction (2012)

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White Guilt: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Emergent Racisms in the Contemporary United States

Dissertation, University of Maryland (2010)