Dr. Eschmann’s research investigates the social meaning of race in the digital age.
Selected Publications
Unmasking Racism
Students of Color and Expressions of Racism in Online Spaces
Digital Resistance
How Online Communication Facilitates Responses to Racial Microaggressions
Tweeting Toward Transformation
Prison Abolition and Criminal Justice Reform in 140 Characters
Bigger Than Sports
Identity politics, Colin Kaepernick, and concession making in #BoycottNike
Making a Microaggression
Using big data and qualitative analysis to map the reproduction and disruption of microaggressions through social media
What’s a Threat on Social Media?
How Black and Latino Chicago Young Men Define and Navigate Threats Online
Hidden in Plain Sight
Rethinking Race in Education
Does Schooling Reduce or Increase Social Inequality?
Context Matters
Testing differential effects of racial microaggressions by environmental context on depression
The Digital Race Lab
Our research aims to:
Investigate the ways technology and digital media change the ways people talk about and experience race and racism.
Measure the impacts of online racial discourse on communities of Color and society.
Highlight and promote resistance against racism in both online and face-to-face settings.