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who you are
Recognizing others Crossing
boundaries
Conversing with the
world
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Critically
Research
The
following links will go to the professor's area of interest.
The headings for each area are only a partial listing of
their research interests. You are recommended to explore
all the brief summaries in the faculty
page.
Chicano/Latino
studies, racial and ethnic studies...
Jose
Alamillo's research include: Chicano/a-Latino/a
Studies; Ethnic Labor and Working Class History and Culture;
Race, Gender in American Sport. His research agenda focuses
on race, gender, labor, leisure, and sport among Mexican
Americans in Southern California, Pacific Northwest and
the American West.
Popular Culture, Literature and Performativity
Lisa
Guerrero 's
research interests include: African
American cultural movements, African American masculinity,
race and popular culture, gender and sexuality,
Ethnic American literature and memoir, theories
and literatures of the African diaspora, and racial
identity formation in the U.S. She is especially
interested in the performative nature of racial,
national, and gender identities, the reproduction
of hegemonies within racial protest movements, and
the uses of satire and irony in literature and popular
culture.
Race, Power and Culture
Through
his research Rich King
examines the racial politics of culture, addressing such
subjects as the ongoing controversy over Native American
mascots, popular depictions of racialized groups in movies,
museums, and the media, political struggles over
representation, naming, and history, race and sports,
particularly the significance of athletics in Native America,
and the social construction of racial groups and ethnic
identities.
African
American Studies, social movements, comparative Ethnic Studies
While
David Leonard maintains
his passion for social movements and exploring the way individuals/
communities resist hegemony, his interest in antiracist
work has led him to look at the way that race, national
identity, gender and racial dynamics are constructed and
constituted within popular culture. Examing video games,
film, sports and racialized commodities, David explores
the ways cultural misreality and social inequalities impact
the material conditions of various communities.
Carmen
Lugo-Lugo's research interests include
Puerto Rican Studies, Latina Feminism in the US,
feminist theory, and issues of colonialism/imperialism,
race and popular culture, race relations and economic
inequality
Stereotypes
and tokenism...
Yolanda
Flores Niemann's research interests include effects
of stereotypes across various domains, including identity
and risky behavior, the psychological effects of tokenism,
overcoming obstacles to Latina/o higher education, identity
issues from Mexican to Mexican American, and the use of stereotypes
as justification for discrimination.
Rory
Ong's research interests include ethnic studies, cultural
studies, and discourse theory.
Relocation
and removal of racial communities, commodifications of race
in film...
John
Streamas's research interests include relocation
and removal of racial communities, commodifications of race
in film, agency and subjecthood in home movies and other "amateur"
productions of marginalized peoples, Asian "war brides" and
orientalized domesticity, conservative nostalgia and the remythologizing
of World War II, and the wartime incarceration of Japanese
Americans.
