Dr. Bailey-Fakhoury's scholarship focuses on how race, class, and gender affect childrens' educational experiences and how racial socialization and identity development affect educational and mental health outcomes within populations of color. Her current research identifies the strategies African American mothers use to promote a positive racial-gender identity in their young daughters attending a predominantly white school. Dr. Bailey-Fakhoury utilizes a mixed methods framework in examining how parental racial socialization impacts the racial-gender identity development and academic achievement of young children of color. Her dissertation, I Can't Just Turn over My Daughter and Let It Be: Black Mothers and the Racial Socialization of their Daughters Attending White Schools, demonstrated that suburban, middle-class black mothers racially socialize their daughters at rates higher than previously published reports; mothers use a set of motherwork strategies to promote a positive racial-gender identity in their young, high-achieving daughters; and that black-female identity has high salience for these mothers and forms the nexus of the socialization work they do in the context of predominantly white spaces.