The Department of Anthropology John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Faculty Profiles


Suzanne Oboler
Professor
212.237.8751
1554N
Areas of Expertise: Immigration, race, citizenship and national belonging in the Americas; and the transnational experience and cultural identity of first and second generation South Americans in the United States.
1991 PhD New York University

Professor Oboler is the Founding Editor of the international academic journal, Latino Studies (Palgrave Press, UK), and Co-Editor in Chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia on Latinos and Latinas in the United States (OUP, 2005). She is the author of Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of Representation (University of Minnesota Press, 1995). She is also editor of the anthology, Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemmas of Belonging (Palgrave, 2006) and co-editor of Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos (Palgrave, 2005). She has also published a number of articles on race, citizenship, identity and national belonging in the Americas, most recently, “Latinos and the (Re)Racializing of U.S. Society and Politics (2007); “Nuevas Formas/viejos moldes: la discriminación racial contra los Latinos en Estados Unidos, después del 11 de septiembre, 2001 (2007); “Citizenship and Belonging: The Construction of US Latino Identity Today” (2007) and “History on the Move: Revisiting the Suffering of the Immigrant from the Latino Perspective” (2006). Professor Oboler teaches courses on race, citizenship and the politics of belonging in the Americas; Latino/a studies; social movements; civil rights and the legacy of the 1960s; transnationalism and immigration; and cultural studies.

Luis Barrios, Chairperson
444 W. 59th St., Room 1551N, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.237.8747, Email: lbarrios@jjay.cuny.edu