Woodrow Wilson National Career Enhancement Fellow

American Sociological Association

Latino Studies Association

Mexican illegality, Black citizenship, and White power:  Immigrant perceptions of the U.S. socioracial hierarchy

Racial Remittances: The Effect of Migration on Racial Ideologies in Mexico and the U.S.

Mobilizing African Americans for immigrant rights: Framing strategies in two multi-racial coalitions

Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

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Blackness in Latin America

Quantitative Methods

The Politics of Latino Identity: From Hispanic to Latinx

Qualitative Research Methods

Latino L.A.

Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

Professor Sylvia Zamora received her Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA and a B.A. in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Smith College. She comes to LMU from the University of Chicago, where she was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching are guided by questions concerning Latino immigration and how it is changing social, political and racial dynamics in American society; she is also exploring the ongoing manifestations of African American and Latino relations in the context of major demographic shifts. Her work has been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association Sections on International Migration, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Latino/a Sociology and appears in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latino Studies and the edited volume, “Just Neighbors?: Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States.” Her recently published book, Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border (Stanford University Press, July 2022), is a multi-site project in México and the U.S. that examines how racial ideologies ‘travel’ with migrants across borders, illustrating how racialization is a transnational process that not only changes immigrants themselves, but also everyday understandings of race and racism in home and host countries.

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