Publications

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Erving, Christy L., Tiffany R. Williams, Alexander J. Holt, and Aigné Taylor. 2024. "Anticipatory Race-Related Stress and Depressive Symptoms Among U.S. Black Women: Are Psychosocial Resources Stress Buffers?" Sociological Inquiry.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Erving, Christy L., Alexander J. Holt, and Courtney S. Thomas Tobin. 2024. "Stratification and Inequality," in The Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (Springer, forthcoming).

Thomas Tobin, Courtney, Alexander J. Holt, and Christy L. Erving. 2024. "New Directions," in The Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (Springer).

BOOK REVIEWS

Holt, Alexander J. 2025. Review of On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human by Wilson Kwamogi Okello. The Ethnic and Third World Literatures (E3W) Review of Books, Vol. 24.

Holt, Alexander J. 2023. Review of Media and the Affective Life of Slavery by Allison Page. The Ethnic and Third World Literatures (E3W) Review of Books, Vol. 23.

IN PROGRESS

"Racializing Sociological Trauma Theory: A Move Towards Epistemic Pluralism."

"'You're Black, but it's more palatable': Internalized Racism Among College Students of Color" (with Claire Harper, Lalaine Sevillano, Taylor Geyton, Matthew Town, and Esther Calzada).

PUBLISHED ESSAYS

  • 2018–2020Opinion Columnist, Old Gold & Black, Wake Forest University
  • "Centuries in Seconds: Why It's Time for You to Get Involved" (with Katherine Pearson)
  • "Our Haze of Indifference Numbs Us to Cultural Crises"
  • 2017Essais: A Movement of the Mind (co-author), Library Partners Press
  • 2017–2018Content Creator, The Odyssey Online, Wake Forest University
  • 2016–2017"Roots of the 'Black Lives Matter' Movement: The Disconnect," in Writing Moves: A Collection of Student Writing from Wake Forest University (nominated for the D.A. Brown Writing Award)

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