Research areas: labor market inequality, intersections of race, gender and class, discrimination and immigration. One of her current research projects, funded by the NSF, examines how race and gender influence class mobility strategies among middle-class Dominican and Mexican immigrant families in Atlanta. She is also collaborating on a study of how gender, race/ethnicity and class shape remittance flows and their consequences among Dominican and Guatemalan immigrants in Atlanta and their countries of origin. Selected publications include: "Latinas at Work: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity and Class," co-authored with Rachel Askew in Gender, Ethnicity and Race in the Workplace Volume I (2006); "The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market." Annual Review of Sociology. co-authored with Joya Misra (2003); and Latinas and African American Women at Work, (editor), Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.