# overview
I study Latinx, race, education, school/neighborhood segregation, immigration and state violence. I have published research in some of the top journals in sociology and education, including Sociology of Education, Social Forces, Social Problems and the American Educational Research Journal. I am currently studying how well the spatial assimilation theory accounts for the residential attainment of young Latinx; how the immigration status of Mexican immigrant parents affects their children's educational attainment, and how theories of racialization and assimilation account for variation in Latinx achievement in new and traditional destinations.

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Human Resource Development and African Americans

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3902 Education Policy, Sociology And Philosophy

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Pomona College - (Claremont, California, United States)

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University of Arizona - (Tucson, Arizona, United States)

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University of Arizona - (Tucson, Arizona, United States)

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American Educational Research Association (AERA)

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With Mass Deportation Comes Mass Punishment

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Race-Relations Theories and the Racial Dynamics of Basketball Performance

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Will Moving to a Better Neighborhood Help? Teenage Residential Mobility, Change of Context, and Young-Adult Educational Attainment

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Overcoming the Wall: Educational Achievement and Growth in School Districts on the U.S.-Mexico Border

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All Segregation is Not Equal: The Impact of Latino and Black School Composition

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Mexican parent's undocumented status and the educational attainment of the children left behind.

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Sources of Stress for Football and Volleyball Officials from Three Rating Levels

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Perpetuation theory and the racial segregation of young adults.

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WITH MASS DEPORTATION COMES MASS PUNISHMENT Punitive Capacity, Health, and Standards in US Immigrant Detention

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Transitions to wage labor and postsecondary education among Puerto Rican youth

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Schools' Racial Mix, Students' Optimism, and the Black-White and Latino-White Achievement Gaps

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Learning to Understand Diversity: Getting Students Past Ideology.

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Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

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Mastery of Cultural Capital, Social Class Segregation of High Schools and Winning at Sport

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Schools or Neighborhoods or Both? Race and Ethnic Segregation and Educational Attainment

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Do More-Assimilated Latinxs Leave the Barrio and Move to White Neighborhoods? Latinxs, Young Adults, and Spatial Assimilation

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Spectacle, Distance, and Threat: Attendance and Integration of Major League Baseball, 19301961

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Race Relations and Racial Patterns in School Sports Participation

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Are there neighborhood effects on young adult neighborhood attainment? Evidence from mixed-logit models.

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The Dice Are Loaded: Schools' Social Class Composition and Athletic Contests

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Keeping People in Their Place? Young-Adult Mobility and Persistence of Residential Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas

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Durkheim, Competitive Interaction, and the Best: Explaining the State-Origins of U.S. Olympians

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Ethno-Racial Profiling and State Violencein a Southwest Barrio

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Schools' Role in Shaping Race Relations: Evidence on Friendliness and Conflict

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Learning Apart, Living Apart: How the Racial and Ethnic Segregation of Schools and Colleges Perpetuates Residential Segregation

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Dress Codes and Racial Discrimination in Urban Nightclubs

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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REU Site: Research Institute in Sociology and Social Inequality

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Sociology; 4351 TAMU

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Gamino, Eric (2015-07). Racialized Policing on the south Texas-Mexico Border: Mexican American Police Officers' Racialization of Latin-Origin Unauthorized Immigrants. Doctoral Dissertation.