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Catherine S. Ramirez

Catherine S. Ramírez

Catherine S. Ramírez, chair of the Latin American and Latino studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a scholar of Mexican American history; race, migration, and citizenship; Latinx literature and visual culture; comparative ethnic studies; gender studies; 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) and a coeditor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021). icon

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A Beacon of Futurity and a Balm of Security

By Catherine S. Ramírez

Guadalupe Maravilla makes multimedia art to grapple with his “traumatic experiences” as a unaccompanied child and undocumented migrant.

From “Crisis” to Futurity

By Geraldo Cadava, A. Naomi Paik, & Catherine S. Ramírez

Introducing a new series to push forward our thinking and action about immigration and borders.

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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