José A. Padín Director of Chicano Latino Studies, & Associate Professor of Sociology

• Latin American immigration
• Media and Race
• Political Economy of Development
• Residential Segregation and Integration

Teaching Areas

• Sociological Theory
• Comparative Race and Ethnicity
• Immigration
• Social Stratification
• International Political Economy

Selected Articles

2005. “The Normative Mulattoes: The Press, and the Symbolic Racial Climate Along the New Latino Immigration Frontier.” Sociological Perspectives, (forthcoming).

2004. “Death of a Nation: Conservative Talk Radio’s Immigration and Race Curriculum” (José A. Padín and Shelley Smith). In Peter Phillips, ed., Censored 2005. New York: Seven Stories Press.

2003. “Puerto Rico in the Post War: Liberalized Development Banking and the Fall of the ‘Fifth Tiger’.” World Development , Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 281-301.

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998