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Faculty Profiles
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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.
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| 1991 PhD New York University |
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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.
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Luis Barrios, Chairperson
444 W. 59th St., Room 1551N, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.237.8747, Email: lbarrios@jjay.cuny.edu |
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