Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, March 19 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Yalidy Matos entitled “Beyond Panethnicity”.
Matos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University where she has been since 2017. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race + Ethnicity in America. She holds a PhD and a MA in Political Science from Ohio State University and a BA from Connecticut College in Government and Women’s and Gender Studies.
Matos’ book Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics (Oxford, 2023) examines the inherent moral, value-based, nature of white Americans’ immigration attitudes, including preferences on local immigration enforcement programs, federal immigration policy, and levels of legal immigration allowed. Her scholarly work explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender and public opinion and political behavior. By drawing on theoretical frameworks from various disciplines, she uses a mixed methods approach to understand the racialized nature of U.S. immigration policies as well as other politically consequential public and social policies. Matos focuses on the political behavior of different racial and ethnic groups in relation to identity politics.