Yalidy Matos

Yalidy Matos is a political scientist who studies whiteness as a political identity and race consciousness and Latinx identity. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University.

Publications:

• Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

• “Rhode Island Latinas running for Congress illustrate state's shift.” Axios (July 11). https://www.axios.com/2023/07/11/rhode-island-congress-sabina-matos

• Matos, Yalidy, Stacey Greene, and Kira Sanbonmatsu. “The Politics of “Women of Color”: A Group Identity Worth Investigating.” Politics, Groups, and Identities. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2021.2008992

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• "The Boundaries and Attributes of Latinidad" Research Presentation at Northwestern (Feb 2024)

• “At the Intersection of Afro-Latinidad and Gender”, Research Presentation at Rice University (Feb 2023) and UCLA (May 2022)

• “Biden speech acknowledges immigration and pathway to citizenship issues.” National Public Radio (NPR; Feb 8). https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1155335757

Accomplishments:

• 2023 Chancellor-Provost’s Celebration of Faculty Excellence, Rutgers University, Honoree

• 2022 American Political Science Association (APSA) Distinguished Junior Scholar in Political Psychology

• 2022 Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant ($30,000)

Upcoming Projects:

• Book project: "Beyond Panethnicity: Understanding Latino Social Identity and Racialized Political Ideologies and its Consequences for American Politics"

• Book project: "Politics in our Veins: The Rise of Dominican-American Political Power in the United States (with Domingo Morel and Michelle Bueno Vasquez)"

My scholarly work tackles social and racial justice concerns by shedding light the social, political, and psychological realities of racial and ethnic groups in the United States. My work emphasizes that race has and continues to structure the formal and informal political, economic, and social lives of its residents. This emphasis appears in my first book, where I push the discipline of political science to think critically about the role of non-Hispanic whites’ immoral choices as it relates to immigration.