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. Read online

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).

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. Read online
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. Read online

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

“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)