Dr. Bedelia Richards

Assistant Professor of Sociology
302E  Weinstein Hall
Office: (804) 287-6816
Fax: (804) 287-1278

Research:
Education
Race and Ethnic Relations
Social Inequality
Immigration
Caribbean Immigrants

Education:
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Temple University

Selected Publications:

Richards, Bedelia Nicola.  2008. “The Diasporized Hybrid: Second-Generation West Indians in Brooklyn” in Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy. Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations. Brill Publishers, Boston, MA, Pp265-289. 

Melissa F. Weiner, and Richards, Bedelia Nicola.  2008. “Bridging the Theoretical Gap: The Diasporized Hybrid in Sociological Theory” in Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy. Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations. Brill Publishers. Boston, MA, Pp101-116.

McDonald, Katrina Bell and Bedelia Nicola Richards. 2008. “Downward Residential Mobility in Structural-Cultural Context: The Case of Disadvantaged Black Mothers.” Black Women, Gender and Families. 2(1): 25-53