Mari Sanchez is a Doctoral Student in Sociology. Mari is broadly interested in how societies manage and make sense of growing ethnoracial diversity. Her research lies at the intersection of ethnoracial classification, knowledge production, and intra-minority politics. Her dissertation offers a comparative study of “non-white meta-categories” – superordinate categories that encapsulate various populations considered non-white – in the US and the UK. In the US, non-white meta-categories include “people of color” (POC) and “minority”; in the UK, these include “Politically Black” and “Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic” (BAME). She interrogates how non-white meta categories, which were used in administrative spheres and radical movements in the US and UK over the last 50 years to manage ethnoracial diversity and seek ethnoracial rights, have been unsettled, challenged, and revised since 2020. Before graduate school, Mari worked 9 years in the advertising world, where she specialized in analyzing, understanding, and creating cultural narratives of diversity and inclusion.
Contact:
mjsanchez@g.harvard.edu