December 13, 2023
Salon Topic:
What's Your Street Race? Intersectionality for Revising OMB Federal Guidelines on Race and Ethnicity.
Salon Guests:
Dr. Nancy López
Director and Co-founder, Institute for Study of "Race" & Social Justice, University of New Mexico
Coordinator, NM Statewide Race, Gender, Class Data Policy Consortium
Advisor, Race and Social Justice Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate
Guest Bio:
Nancy López is associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico. She directs and co-founded the Institute for the Study of "Race" & Social Justice.
Dr. López has been named the Inaugural Academic Leadership Academy (ALA) Faculty Fellow, UNM Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
Dr. López received National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) funding for a workshop on "race" in health policy research (April 2011). She co-edited a volume based on this workshop entitled, "Mapping 'Race': Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research" (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Book Series, 2013).
She has also received funding from the Sociological Initiatives Foundation for a study of discipline in a diverse New Mexico public school, as well as funding from the NM Public Education Department for a study entitled, "Indian Education in New Mexico, 2025." Her book Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education (New York: Routledge, 2003) focuses on Dominicans, West Indians, and Haitians to explain why girls of color are succeeding at higher rates than their male counterparts. Her current work focuses on the creation of meaningful conceptualizations of "race" as a dynamic multi-dimensional and multi-level social construction.
The daughter of Dominican immigrants, Dr. López was born in New York City and was raised in NYC public housing; Spanish is her first language.
- A shareable view only version of the Consensus Memo that was submitted to federal registry 4/27/23 in Google docs can be accessed at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UQBABLnPTLOzTq3siR_hHti5G5JwvkY-LwIU_XnS9J0/edit?usp=sharing
- Thank you for Your Support of Our Consensus MemoResponding to Initial Proposals for Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards (Federal Register 2023-01635) The deadline to submit your name as a signatory has passed. forms.gle
- We also produced a methods memo that was submitted to the Federal Registry (4/27/23) as well as the National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race and Ethnicity (5/3/23) at the Census Bureau on the urgency of data transparency and further testing and the integration of interdisciplinary race and ethnicity scholarship as urgently needed before consequential changes to federal race and ethnicity standards are considered (attached). https://sociology.unm.edu/people/faculty%20profile/methods-memo-2023.04.27-final-1.pdf
- López, N., Vargas, E., Juarez, M., Cacari-Stone, L., & Bettez, S. (2018). What’s your “street race”? Leveraging multidimensional measures of race and intersectionality for examining physical and mental health status among Latinxs. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 4(1), 49-66.
- Vargas, E. D., Juarez, M., Stone, L. C., & Lopez, N. (2021). Critical ‘street race’praxis: Advancing the measurement of racial discrimination among diverse Latinx communities in the US. Critical Public Health, 31(4), 381-391.
- López, Nancy, Christopher Erwin, Melissa Binder & Mario Chavez. 2018. “Making the Invisible Visible: Advancing Quantitative Methods Through Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality for Revealing Complex Race-Gender-Class Inequalities in Higher Education, 1980- 2015.” Special Issue: QuantCrit: Critical Race Theory and Quantitative Research Methods, Race, Ethnicity and Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2017.1375185 and republished by Routledge, QuantCrit: An Antiracist Quantitative Approach to Educational Inquiry (2023).
- Gonzalez, D., López, N., Karpman, M., Furtado, K., Kenney, G. M., McDaniel, M., & O’Brien, C. (2022). Observing Race and Ethnicity through a New Lens. Washington DC: Urban Institute.
- Galdamez et al. Centering Black Latinidad: A Profile of The Afro-Latinx Population and Complex Inequalities. University of California: Latino Policy & Politics Institute, April 20, 2023. https://latino.ucla.edu/research/centering-black-latinidad/