Aida Hurtado's research focuses on the effects of subordination on social identity, the part of the self that is related to significant group memberships. She is especially interested in those group memberships (e.g., ethnicity, race, class, and gender) that are derogated in this society and are used to legitimate unequal distribution of power between groups.

Her multidisciplinary perspective has emerged from the social psychological literature on social identity and language attitudes, the methodological literature on surveys, and feminist theory. She uses a variety of methods ranging from ethnography to survey research, which is the core of her training.

Social identity, feminist theory, social psychology of education, survey methodology.

A crossborder existence. In A. Stewart and M. Romero (Eds.), Outside the Master Narratives: Women's Untold Stories. New York: Routledge, 1999, 83-101.

Sitios y lenguas: Chicanas theorize feminism. Hypatia, 1998, 13, 134-153

Understanding multiple group identities: Inserting women into cultural transformations. Journal of Social Issues, 1997, 53, 299-328

The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.