Nancy López
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy López |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | López |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9368-694X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Black and Some Other Race: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Bureau's 2020 Race Question
The 2020 census race question featured a write-in response area to the Black race category as a way to capture detailed race responses. Evidence suggests that respondents who wrote a Hispanic or Latino origin response (i.e., Dominican or Panamanian) in this response area were reclassified as "Black" and "Some Other Race" (SOR) and tabulated as multiracial. In effect, the number of single-race Black Latinos declined by 3 percent since 2010, while …
Toward a Latinx Stratification Economics
This paper describes Latinx stratification economics (LSE) as a scholarly approach to studying the economic status of Latinas/os/es/xs primarily in the United States. We coin the term LSE to refer to work that draws on and is in conversation with both the emergent, interdisciplinary subfield of stratification economics (SE) and the interdisciplinary field of Latinx studies (LS). SE and LS have distinct intellectual traditions and drawing on both …
What’s Your Street Race? The Urgency of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality as Lenses for Revising the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Guidelines, Census and Administrative Data in Latinx …
What’s your street race? If you were walking down the street what race do you think strangers would automatically assume you are based on what you look like? What is the universe of data and conceptual gaps that complicate or prevent rigorous data collection and analysis for advancing racial justice? Using Latinx communities in the U.S. as an example, we argue that scholars, researchers, practitioners and communities across traditional academic, …
Resistance to Race and Gender Oppression: Dominican High School Girls in New York City
Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those…
Critical ‘street race’ praxis: Advancing the measurement of racial discrimination among diverse Latinx communities in the U.S
Research demonstrates a causal link between increased exposure to racial discrimination and adverse health outcomes among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the U.S. However, most research on Latinx communities overlooks how discrimination varies according to individual accounts of how their race is perceived by others. To address this gap, our study draws from critical race theory to analyze a new multi-dimensional measure of racial status…
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores (bio), Hilda Lloréns (bio), Nancy López (bio), Maritza Quiñones (bio), and on behalf of Black Latinas Know Collective On April 29, 2019, the Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) published its website and statement (Black Latinas Know Collective 2019). The BLKC Statement, shared below, reflects our thinking as Black Latina scholars in t…
Assessing racial differences in lifetime and current smoking status & menthol consumption among Latinos in a nationally representative sample
Objective: To examine the relationship between race and smoking behaviors among Latinos/Hispanics. Design: Using data from the National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS), we implemented Log-Poisson regression models for each dependent variable (smoking pattern and menthol cigarette use). Each analysis adjusted for age, gender, marital status, employment status, and socioeconomic status (SES). Final pooled cross-sectional sample included 505 Black-Latin…
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
In 1903, sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois argued that the problem of the twentieth century was the color line. More than a century later, an Institute of Medicine report titled Unequal Treatment (2003) painstakingly documented the continuing presence of a color line in health care delivery. Regardless of income, wealth, or education levels, visible minorities still receive unequal care. What is paralyzing a profession like medicine, which is dedicated …
A Public Ethics Approach Focused on the Lives of Diverse LGBTQ Homeless Youth
How can an ethical-analytical framework focused on social equity help illuminate the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth of color, particularly those who are homeless? The purpose of this article is to engage in just such an analysis of the complex analytical and ethical challenges presented by homelessness among LGBTQ youth. The authors take as our point of departure the premise that trans youth…
Blood sugar: Racial pharmacology and food justice in Black America
What's Your "Street Race"? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs
Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N = 1,197), we examine the relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional measures of race: (1) street race, or how you believe other "Americans" perceive your race at the level of the street; (2) socially assigned race, or what we call ascribed race, which refers to how you believe others usually classify your race in the United States; and (3) self-…
Making the invisible visible: Advancing quantitative methods in higher education using critical race theory and intersectionality
We appeal to critical race theory and intersectionality to examine achievement gaps at a large public university in the American southwest from 2000 to 2015. Using white, high-income women as our reference group, we report linear combinations of marginal effects for six-year graduation rates and developmental course taking across 20 distinct social locations varying according to race-ethnicity, gender, and class. We find substantial achievement g…
QuantCrit: Rectifying quantitative methods through critical race theory
Critical race theory (CRT) in education centers, examines, and seeks to transform the relationship that undergirds race, racism, and power. CRT scholars have applied a critical race framework to advance research methodologies, namely qualitative interventions. Informed by this work, and 15 years later, this article reconsiders the possibilities of CRT applications to quantitative methodologies through ‘QuantCrit.’ We ask the question: Can quantit…
Latinos and the Color Line
This essay reviews the issues and current literature on how “race,” skin color, and/or phenotype operate as stratifying agents among Latinos in the United States. We review the trends and emerging issues in this area with regard to health, housing and segregation, and socioeconomic status (SES), including education and criminal justice. We do so in the context of the Census Bureau's release of its 2010 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) s…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: A systematic analysi…
Claiming Queer Cultural Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco
Curious about my presence in his math class at Southwest High School (SHS), a large public high school in New Mexico, Randy, a brown-skinned Latino young man in Ms. Anaya’s ninth grade special education class, queried me: “Miss, are you a psychologist? Are you here to see how stupid we are?”1 As a bilingual Afro-Dominicana who was born in the Lower East Side and raised in New York City public housing projects during the 1970s, I was pained by Ran…
Leadership and Accountability in American Indian Education: Voices from New Mexico
How do American Indian students, parents, and teachers conceptualize leadership in New Mexico public schools? How do they negotiate power dynamics within this context? The objective of this study was to investigate how leadership and accountability in American Indian schools and communities in New Mexico is recognized, characterized, contested, and envisioned by students, teachers, and community members. We contend that American Indian communitie…
Killing two birds with one stone? Why we need two separate questions on race and ethnicity in the 2020 census and beyond
Silence Is Not Golden: Invisible Latinas Living with HIV in the Midwest
This qualitative study was conducted to better understand the health needs and concerns of immigrant HIV-infected Latinas residing in the Midwest United States. Individual interviews (n = 18) were conducted in Spanish with Latinas in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Women were at different stages of acceptance about their HIV diagnosis and four common themes emerged from the data: pregnancy as a death sentence, HIV is taboo, God as their only resou…
Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education
Antiracist Pedagogy and Empowerment in a Bilingual Classroom in the U.S., circa 2006
How can teachers and administrators improve the educational environment for Latino/as and other racially stigmatized youth? What does antiracist pedagogy for Latino/a immigrant youth look like? This article describes the thought, action, and reflection employed by a bilingual 9th grade teacher in the Southwest. Antiracist pedagogical strategies include creating an empowering classroom physical space, articulating an antiracist discourse, and enco…
Gender in Latin America
Race-Gender Experiences and Schooling: Second-generation Dominican, West Indian, and Haitian youth in New York City
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, a gender gap in education has emerged in the USA. Women from all racial ethnic groups attain higher levels of education than men. This study examines the race-gender gap in education among the children of the largest new immigrant group in New York City--second-generation Caribbean young adults. While previous studies of the second generation focus on assimilation, this study places intersecting race and g…
Burguesías y gobiernos provinciales en la Argentina: La política impositiva de Tucumán y Mendoza entre 1873 y 1914
What's Your "Street Race"? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs
Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N = 1,197), we examine the relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional measures of race: (1) street race, or how you believe other "Americans" perceive your race at the level of the street; (2) socially assigned race, or what we call ascribed race, which refers to how you believe others usually classify your race in the United States; and (3) self-…
QuantCrit: Rectifying quantitative methods through critical race theory
Critical race theory (CRT) in education centers, examines, and seeks to transform the relationship that undergirds race, racism, and power. CRT scholars have applied a critical race framework to advance research methodologies, namely qualitative interventions. Informed by this work, and 15 years later, this article reconsiders the possibilities of CRT applications to quantitative methodologies through ‘QuantCrit.’ We ask the question: Can quantit…
Making the invisible visible: Advancing quantitative methods in higher education using critical race theory and intersectionality
We appeal to critical race theory and intersectionality to examine achievement gaps at a large public university in the American southwest from 2000 to 2015. Using white, high-income women as our reference group, we report linear combinations of marginal effects for six-year graduation rates and developmental course taking across 20 distinct social locations varying according to race-ethnicity, gender, and class. We find substantial achievement g…
Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education
Killing two birds with one stone? Why we need two separate questions on race and ethnicity in the 2020 census and beyond
Critical ‘street race’ praxis: Advancing the measurement of racial discrimination among diverse Latinx communities in the U.S
Research demonstrates a causal link between increased exposure to racial discrimination and adverse health outcomes among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the U.S. However, most research on Latinx communities overlooks how discrimination varies according to individual accounts of how their race is perceived by others. To address this gap, our study draws from critical race theory to analyze a new multi-dimensional measure of racial status…
What’s Your Street Race? The Urgency of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality as Lenses for Revising the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Guidelines, Census and Administrative Data in Latinx …
What’s your street race? If you were walking down the street what race do you think strangers would automatically assume you are based on what you look like? What is the universe of data and conceptual gaps that complicate or prevent rigorous data collection and analysis for advancing racial justice? Using Latinx communities in the U.S. as an example, we argue that scholars, researchers, practitioners and communities across traditional academic, …
Race-Gender Experiences and Schooling: Second-generation Dominican, West Indian, and Haitian youth in New York City
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, a gender gap in education has emerged in the USA. Women from all racial ethnic groups attain higher levels of education than men. This study examines the race-gender gap in education among the children of the largest new immigrant group in New York City--second-generation Caribbean young adults. While previous studies of the second generation focus on assimilation, this study places intersecting race and g…
A Public Ethics Approach Focused on the Lives of Diverse LGBTQ Homeless Youth
How can an ethical-analytical framework focused on social equity help illuminate the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth of color, particularly those who are homeless? The purpose of this article is to engage in just such an analysis of the complex analytical and ethical challenges presented by homelessness among LGBTQ youth. The authors take as our point of departure the premise that trans youth…
Antiracist Pedagogy and Empowerment in a Bilingual Classroom in the U.S., circa 2006
How can teachers and administrators improve the educational environment for Latino/as and other racially stigmatized youth? What does antiracist pedagogy for Latino/a immigrant youth look like? This article describes the thought, action, and reflection employed by a bilingual 9th grade teacher in the Southwest. Antiracist pedagogical strategies include creating an empowering classroom physical space, articulating an antiracist discourse, and enco…
Burguesías y gobiernos provinciales en la Argentina: La política impositiva de Tucumán y Mendoza entre 1873 y 1914
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores (bio), Hilda Lloréns (bio), Nancy López (bio), Maritza Quiñones (bio), and on behalf of Black Latinas Know Collective On April 29, 2019, the Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) published its website and statement (Black Latinas Know Collective 2019). The BLKC Statement, shared below, reflects our thinking as Black Latina scholars in t…
Black and Some Other Race: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Bureau's 2020 Race Question
The 2020 census race question featured a write-in response area to the Black race category as a way to capture detailed race responses. Evidence suggests that respondents who wrote a Hispanic or Latino origin response (i.e., Dominican or Panamanian) in this response area were reclassified as "Black" and "Some Other Race" (SOR) and tabulated as multiracial. In effect, the number of single-race Black Latinos declined by 3 percent since 2010, while …
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
In 1903, sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois argued that the problem of the twentieth century was the color line. More than a century later, an Institute of Medicine report titled Unequal Treatment (2003) painstakingly documented the continuing presence of a color line in health care delivery. Regardless of income, wealth, or education levels, visible minorities still receive unequal care. What is paralyzing a profession like medicine, which is dedicated …
Leadership and Accountability in American Indian Education: Voices from New Mexico
How do American Indian students, parents, and teachers conceptualize leadership in New Mexico public schools? How do they negotiate power dynamics within this context? The objective of this study was to investigate how leadership and accountability in American Indian schools and communities in New Mexico is recognized, characterized, contested, and envisioned by students, teachers, and community members. We contend that American Indian communitie…
Burguesías y gobiernos provinciales en la Argentina: La política impositiva de Tucumán y Mendoza entre 1873 y 1914
Race-Gender Experiences and Schooling: Second-generation Dominican, West Indian, and Haitian youth in New York City
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, a gender gap in education has emerged in the USA. Women from all racial ethnic groups attain higher levels of education than men. This study examines the race-gender gap in education among the children of the largest new immigrant group in New York City--second-generation Caribbean young adults. While previous studies of the second generation focus on assimilation, this study places intersecting race and g…
Gender in Latin America
Antiracist Pedagogy and Empowerment in a Bilingual Classroom in the U.S., circa 2006
How can teachers and administrators improve the educational environment for Latino/as and other racially stigmatized youth? What does antiracist pedagogy for Latino/a immigrant youth look like? This article describes the thought, action, and reflection employed by a bilingual 9th grade teacher in the Southwest. Antiracist pedagogical strategies include creating an empowering classroom physical space, articulating an antiracist discourse, and enco…
Silence Is Not Golden: Invisible Latinas Living with HIV in the Midwest
This qualitative study was conducted to better understand the health needs and concerns of immigrant HIV-infected Latinas residing in the Midwest United States. Individual interviews (n = 18) were conducted in Spanish with Latinas in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Women were at different stages of acceptance about their HIV diagnosis and four common themes emerged from the data: pregnancy as a death sentence, HIV is taboo, God as their only resou…
Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education
Claiming Queer Cultural Citizenship: Gay Latino (Im)Migrant Acts in San Francisco
Curious about my presence in his math class at Southwest High School (SHS), a large public high school in New Mexico, Randy, a brown-skinned Latino young man in Ms. Anaya’s ninth grade special education class, queried me: “Miss, are you a psychologist? Are you here to see how stupid we are?”1 As a bilingual Afro-Dominicana who was born in the Lower East Side and raised in New York City public housing projects during the 1970s, I was pained by Ran…
Leadership and Accountability in American Indian Education: Voices from New Mexico
How do American Indian students, parents, and teachers conceptualize leadership in New Mexico public schools? How do they negotiate power dynamics within this context? The objective of this study was to investigate how leadership and accountability in American Indian schools and communities in New Mexico is recognized, characterized, contested, and envisioned by students, teachers, and community members. We contend that American Indian communitie…
Killing two birds with one stone? Why we need two separate questions on race and ethnicity in the 2020 census and beyond
Latinos and the Color Line
This essay reviews the issues and current literature on how “race,” skin color, and/or phenotype operate as stratifying agents among Latinos in the United States. We review the trends and emerging issues in this area with regard to health, housing and segregation, and socioeconomic status (SES), including education and criminal justice. We do so in the context of the Census Bureau's release of its 2010 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) s…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: A systematic analysi…
Making the invisible visible: Advancing quantitative methods in higher education using critical race theory and intersectionality
We appeal to critical race theory and intersectionality to examine achievement gaps at a large public university in the American southwest from 2000 to 2015. Using white, high-income women as our reference group, we report linear combinations of marginal effects for six-year graduation rates and developmental course taking across 20 distinct social locations varying according to race-ethnicity, gender, and class. We find substantial achievement g…
QuantCrit: Rectifying quantitative methods through critical race theory
Critical race theory (CRT) in education centers, examines, and seeks to transform the relationship that undergirds race, racism, and power. CRT scholars have applied a critical race framework to advance research methodologies, namely qualitative interventions. Informed by this work, and 15 years later, this article reconsiders the possibilities of CRT applications to quantitative methodologies through ‘QuantCrit.’ We ask the question: Can quantit…
Assessing racial differences in lifetime and current smoking status & menthol consumption among Latinos in a nationally representative sample
Objective: To examine the relationship between race and smoking behaviors among Latinos/Hispanics. Design: Using data from the National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS), we implemented Log-Poisson regression models for each dependent variable (smoking pattern and menthol cigarette use). Each analysis adjusted for age, gender, marital status, employment status, and socioeconomic status (SES). Final pooled cross-sectional sample included 505 Black-Latin…
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
In 1903, sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois argued that the problem of the twentieth century was the color line. More than a century later, an Institute of Medicine report titled Unequal Treatment (2003) painstakingly documented the continuing presence of a color line in health care delivery. Regardless of income, wealth, or education levels, visible minorities still receive unequal care. What is paralyzing a profession like medicine, which is dedicated …
A Public Ethics Approach Focused on the Lives of Diverse LGBTQ Homeless Youth
How can an ethical-analytical framework focused on social equity help illuminate the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth of color, particularly those who are homeless? The purpose of this article is to engage in just such an analysis of the complex analytical and ethical challenges presented by homelessness among LGBTQ youth. The authors take as our point of departure the premise that trans youth…
Blood sugar: Racial pharmacology and food justice in Black America
What's Your "Street Race"? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs
Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N = 1,197), we examine the relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional measures of race: (1) street race, or how you believe other "Americans" perceive your race at the level of the street; (2) socially assigned race, or what we call ascribed race, which refers to how you believe others usually classify your race in the United States; and (3) self-…
Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those…
Critical ‘street race’ praxis: Advancing the measurement of racial discrimination among diverse Latinx communities in the U.S
Research demonstrates a causal link between increased exposure to racial discrimination and adverse health outcomes among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the U.S. However, most research on Latinx communities overlooks how discrimination varies according to individual accounts of how their race is perceived by others. To address this gap, our study draws from critical race theory to analyze a new multi-dimensional measure of racial status…
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores (bio), Hilda Lloréns (bio), Nancy López (bio), Maritza Quiñones (bio), and on behalf of Black Latinas Know Collective On April 29, 2019, the Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) published its website and statement (Black Latinas Know Collective 2019). The BLKC Statement, shared below, reflects our thinking as Black Latina scholars in t…
Resistance to Race and Gender Oppression: Dominican High School Girls in New York City
What’s Your Street Race? The Urgency of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality as Lenses for Revising the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Guidelines, Census and Administrative Data in Latinx …
What’s your street race? If you were walking down the street what race do you think strangers would automatically assume you are based on what you look like? What is the universe of data and conceptual gaps that complicate or prevent rigorous data collection and analysis for advancing racial justice? Using Latinx communities in the U.S. as an example, we argue that scholars, researchers, practitioners and communities across traditional academic, …
Toward a Latinx Stratification Economics
This paper describes Latinx stratification economics (LSE) as a scholarly approach to studying the economic status of Latinas/os/es/xs primarily in the United States. We coin the term LSE to refer to work that draws on and is in conversation with both the emergent, interdisciplinary subfield of stratification economics (SE) and the interdisciplinary field of Latinx studies (LS). SE and LS have distinct intellectual traditions and drawing on both …
Black and Some Other Race: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Bureau's 2020 Race Question
The 2020 census race question featured a write-in response area to the Black race category as a way to capture detailed race responses. Evidence suggests that respondents who wrote a Hispanic or Latino origin response (i.e., Dominican or Panamanian) in this response area were reclassified as "Black" and "Some Other Race" (SOR) and tabulated as multiracial. In effect, the number of single-race Black Latinos declined by 3 percent since 2010, while …
Sociology (21 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Population (9 works) · Race (biology (9 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (9 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (7 works) · Law (7 works)