Angelica Loblack

Email:

aloblack@iu.edu

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Angelica "Jelly" Loblack is a CRRES Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland in 2025. Her research examines how gendered racial socialization and anti-Black racialization shape identity, embodiment, and political engagement in Black multiracial, multiethnic, and immigrant communities. Using intersectional and critical feminist approaches, her work investigates these processes across familial, educational, and institutional contexts. At CRRES, Jelly will focus on a book manuscript that builds on her dissertation research, Tethered Tensions, Covert Bonds: Navigating Racial Socialization and Anti-Blackness in Multiracial Families. Through over 160 hours of ethnographic observation and 92 interviews with Black-white multiracial families, her project explores how racial socialization—centered on Black pride, mixedness, or both—differentially shapes children’s understandings of race, selfhood, and power. In this project, Jelly demonstrates how racial socialization in these families is marked by both resistance to and complicity in the reproduction of racial inequality, with whiteness operating as a pervasive force that structures whose labor counts, whose experiences are centered, and how racial meaning is constructed and internalized. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. Jelly was also awarded the American Sociological Association's Minority Fellowship Program for the 2025-2026 academic year, which she declined to begin her CRRES postdoctoral fellowship.