Assistant Professor at University of Virginia
About
Sabrina Pendergrass is assistant professor of sociology and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia. She specializes in race, inequality, internal migration, culture, and regionalism. Sabrina earned her AB in sociology with high honors and a certificate in African American studies from Princeton University, and she obtained her PhD in sociology from Harvard University. She was formerly a doctoral fellow in Harvard’s Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University.
Current Work:
Dr. Predergrass's primary project is a qualitative study of black migration to the urban South. She is currently writing articles and a book manuscript based on more than 120 in-depth interviews she conducted with African American migrants to Charlotte, North Carolina. The study examines blacks' economic, social, and cultural experiences of migration.
Some of the questions the project addresses include the following: What are African Americans' reasons for moving? How are they selecting destinations? How do they think about race relations in the South as they move? Where do northern-born black migrants call home and why? How do the migration experiences of middle-class and working-class blacks differ? The project provides empirical insights about the black reverse migration to the South and develops theory about internal migration, especially its cultural dimensions.
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