His research focuses on educational inequality, racial marginalization, and linguistic stigmatization in urban contexts. He collaborates with schools and communities to track these phenomena and develop tools for understanding and eradicating the forms of disparity to which they correspond. He is the author of the forthcoming book Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Inequality and Ingenuity in the Learning of Latina/o Identities (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His work has appeared in scholarly journals such as American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, as well as in media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.