Louis. Her areas of specialization include racial and ethnic identity constructions, civil rights, labor, immigration, and urban history. Her research analyzes the historical conditions that have facilitated and impeded the formation of multiracial and multiethnic coalitions in urban contexts. Her current book project, “Proud to be Maladjusted”: Puerto Ricans, Black Americans, and the Building of a Latino Civil Rights Movement, will be published with the University of North Carolina Press. It focuses on the civil rights struggles that Puerto Ricans and African Americans forged in New York City in the post-World War II era.