Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield
Associate Professor and
Acting Director, Women's Studies Program
Staff
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
613 Hill Hall
(973) 353-5107
sbutter@andromeda.rutgers.edu
http://www.rutgers-newark.rutgers.edu/socant/

Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield is an Associate Professor of Sociology as well as a member of the Graduate School faculty at Rutgers – Newark. Dr. Butterfield’s main fields of interest are immigration, race and ethnic relations, identity development and culture, and urban education within the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Her research specifically explores how race, ethnicity, class, and gender impact Afro-Caribbean immigrants and their children
within the metropolitan contexts of New York/New Jersey and London.

Dr. Butterfield’s work on the experiences of Afro-Caribbeans has
appeared in several journals such as the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy and Research in Urban Sociology. Dr. Butterfield’s most recent publications include: “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.). (2006);
and “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. Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf
and Mary C. Waters (eds.). (2004).

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