My research interests focus on struggles for racial justice and racial domination in the United States in the 20th and 21st century. I use ethnographic and historical sociological methods to uncover processes of mobilization and counter-mobilization in Black social movements. My current research project attempts to grapple with the existential question at the core of Black movements by asking how activists and onlookers determine the racial nature of a social movement and how the racial identity of movement organizations and networks determine protest and counter-protest strategies.