Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Telephone: 973 353-5107
Office: Hill Hall 613
E-mail: sbutter@andromeda.rutgers.edu

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Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, 2001
M.A. University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, 1997
B.A. Yale University, Sociology and African American Studies, 1995

Research Interests

Research interests include: race and ethnicity, Caribbean immigration, urban sociology, identity and culture, sociology of education, and multiple methods. Professor Butterfield is also a faculty member of the Graduate School-Newark faculty in the Global Affairs Program and a faculty affiliate of the Department of African-American and African Studies, the Urban Studies Program, the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, the Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, and the Institute on Education Law and Policy.

Current Research Projects

Professor Butterfield is currently completing a book-length manuscript that looks at how socioeconomic status impacts the racial and ethnic identities of second generation West Indians. She also has several projects in progress. Professor Butterfield is conducting qualitative interviews for her project that examines the role that race and ethnicity play in the lives of the diasporic West Indian community who reside in North America and Europe. Finally, she is investigating the racial and ethnic interactions between West Indians and African Americans in New Jersey.

Representative Recent Publications

2006 "To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and Somewhat Foreign: The Role of Ethnicity in Black Student
Achievement." In Beyond Acting White: Reassessments and New Directions in Research on
Black Students and School Success. Erin McNamara Horvat and Carla O'Connor (eds.).
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2004 "Being Racialized Ethnics: Second Generation West Indian Immigrants in New York City."
Research in Urban Sociology Series Volume 7: 107-136 (2004).

2004 "We're Just 'Black': The Racial and Ethnic Identities of Second Generation West Indians in New York." In Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation. P. Kasinitz, J. Mollenkopf and M. Waters (eds.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2004).

2004 "Challenging American Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity: Second Generation West Indian
Immigrants." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Vol. 24(7/8): 75-102 (2004).

2003 "Something in Between: Locating Identity among Second-Generation West Indians in New York City" in Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity In The Hudson Valley. Myra Armstead (ed). New York: SUNY Press (2003).

Manuscripts in Preparation 

"Living between Two Countries and Across Three: Second Generation West Indians in New York, London, and Toronto." (Book-length manuscript)

"Class(ifying) Race and Ethnicity: The Importance of Socioeconomic Status Among Second Generation West Indian Immigrants"

"Wear a Slip, But Don't Need a Man...': Constructions of Womanhood Among 2nd Generation West Indian Immigrant Women."

"'If you want a nig-r for a neighbour, vote Labour': Racial Formation in British Caribbean Immigration 1948-1971."

"The Effects of Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods on the Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identities Among Second-Generation Immigrants." (with Alex Trillo)