Research Areas
Research Areas
Embedded Files
Intersectionality Research Collective
Intersectionality Research Collective
Revising Federal Guidelines and Data Collection to Include Intersectionality
Revising Federal Guidelines and Data Collection to Include Intersectionality
Employing Intersectionality for Student Success in Higher Education
Employing Intersectionality for Student Success in Higher Education
Race, Immigration & School Safety
Race, Immigration & School Safety
State Policies, School Safety, and Education
State Policies, School Safety, and Education
State Immigration Legislation Data Archive
State Immigration Legislation Data Archive
STEM Education
STEM Education
Black epiSTEMologies: Examining Blackness in Postsecondary STEM Education
Black epiSTEMologies: Examining Blackness in Postsecondary STEM Education
Racialized Learning Environments in Mathematics Education
Racialized Learning Environments in Mathematics Education
National Survey of High School Math Teachers
National Survey of High School Math Teachers
Centering Black Women in Research
Centering Black Women in Research
In Her Place Survey on Black Women and Policing
In Her Place Survey on Black Women and Policing
Survey Innovations
Survey Innovations
Multidimensional Hair Diversity Index
Multidimensional Hair Diversity Index
Multidimensional Street Race Measure
Multidimensional Street Race Measure
Recent Publications
Recent Publications
Lowe, Jr., R. H., Irizarry, Y., Vargas, E. D., López, N., & Montufar, S. (2025). Black and Some Other Race: Examining shifts in the Black Latino population in the Census Bureau’s 2020 race question. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Deckard, F. M., Malone Gonzalez, S., Irizarry, Y., & Hsu, J. H. (2025). Perpetual encounters: Reconceptualizing police contact and measuring its relationship to Black women’s mental health. Social Forces.
Fong, C., & Irizarry, Y. (2025). Too quant to crit? Advancing QuantCrit methodologies in educational psychology. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 80.
Lowe, Jr., R. H., & Irizarry, Y. (2025). Becoming (non)-white by U.S. standards: Recategorization in the 2020 Census race question. Population Research and Policy Review, 44(10).
Public Scholarship
Public Scholarship
Dialogues on Law, Education, and Diaspora, Creative Justice Initiative, May 2024.
African American and AfroLatine Communities in the U.S., Raben Democracy House, Aug 2024.
Cite Black Women Collective Intersectionality Salon, May 2025.
Public Comments & Reports
Public Comments & Reports
Lowe, R. H., & Irizarry, Y. (2025). Becoming (Non)-White by U.S. Standards: Recategorization in the 2020 Census Race Question. Latino Research Institute Policy Brief.
Lowe, Jr., R. H., & Irizarry, Y. (2024). Black Statistical Representation in the US Census and Implications for SPD15. Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis Numbers Brief.
López, N., Irizarry, Y., & Vargas, E. D. (2024). Consensus memo responding to initial proposals for updating OMB’s race and ethnicity statistical standards (Federal Register 2023-01635). SocArXiv Preprint.
Irizarry, Y., Vargas, E., & López, N. (2023). Necessary research for revising OMB’s race and ethnicity standards. Submitted to Federal Register 2023-01635 and as public comment at May 2023 Census National Advisory Committee (NAC) meeting.
AfroLatino Coalition. (2024). Concerns Regarding the 2030 Census Race and Ethnicity Data Collection and Tabulation Methodology. Submitted to Federal Register 2024-26827.
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