My name is Demetrius Miles Murphy. I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. I earned my B.B.A. in Management Consulting and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame and my M.A. in Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. My research interests lie in the areas of race and ethnicity, class, culture, and urban and economic sociology. I focus on flourishing, the Black class structure, resistance strategies, and Black placemaking. I have two ongoing lines of research. One research line investigates resistance and challenges to anti-Blackness in Brazil. The latest manuscript from this line of research explores police killings and racial ideologies in Brazil using social media data. My primary line of research explores individual and collective well-being in Black communities. My dissertation, Remaking Black LA: Flourishing in the Anti-Black Metropolis, examines how Black people across the class spectrum create and experience meaningful and satisfying lives in Los Angeles County.