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Catherine S. Ramírez

Catherine S. Ramírez, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a scholar of migration, race, gender, Mexican American history, Latinx literature and visual culture, and speculative fiction. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History (University of California Press, 2020) and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory (Duke University Press, 2009).  icon

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What Does Assimilation Mean?

By Catherine S. Ramírez

When Samuel P. Huntington first published “The Hispanic Challenge,” in Foreign Policy in 2004, I was an assistant professor of American studies ...

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