Her scholarship examines the underlying social and cultural processes that affect African Americans’ economic behavior. Utilizing qualitative methods her work focuses on lived experiences of African American consumers. Her published research examines black consumer’s experiences of retail racism and also blacks’ perceptions of social mobility and racial progress after the election of President Barack Obama. In her upcoming book tentatively titled Black Privilege and Black Power she paints a picture of the everyday lives of middle-class African-Americans, revealing how both race and class impact their reality and inform their consumption preferences as displayed at ​work, in their neighborhoods, and at sites of leisure.