Degrees :
B.A. English, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Expertise:
Chicana and U.S. Latino literature, culture, and history; gender studies
and feminist theory; visual culture and style politics; cultural studies;
popular and urban youth cultures; speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and
Chicanafuturism; science, technology, race, and gender; theories and methods
of American studies.
Selected Publications:
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Mexican-American Women, Nationalisms, Citizenship
(forthcoming from Duke University Press)
"Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin," Aztlan(forthcoming Spring 2008)
"Zoot Suit Riots," Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, ed. John H. Moore
(Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson-Gale) (forthcoming)
"Pachucos and Pachucas," Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society,
ed. Richard T. Schaefer (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.) (forthcoming)
"Saying 'Nothin": Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance," Frontiers: Journal
of Women Studies 27:3 (Winter 2007)
"'She Did Not Own Herself Any Longer': Slavery and the Promise of Humanism
in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction," Mediatijdschrift 178
(Summer 2006)
"Pachucos and Pachucas," Encyclopedia
of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, eds. Suzanne Oboler
and Deena J. Gonzalez (Oxford University Press, 2005)
"Representing, Politics, and the Politics of Representation in
Gang Studies," American Quarterly 56:4
(December 2004)
"Alternative Cartographies: Third Woman and the Respatialization of the Borderlands,"
Midwest Miscellany 30 (2004)
"Deus ex machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion C. Martinez," Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 29:2 (Spring 2002)
"Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics,"
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 2:2
(Spring 2002)
"Cyborg Feminism: The Science Fiction of Octavia E. Butler and
Gloria Anzaldúa," Reload: Rethinking Women &
Cyberculture, eds. Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Press, 2002)
Selected Awards:
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research Faculty Fellowship, 2007
Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 2001-02
Selected On-going Projects:
Catherine Ramirez's forthcoming book, The Woman in
the Zoot Suit: Mexican-American Women, Nationalisms, Citizenship, examines the participation of Mexican American women
in the zoot subculture of the 1940s and the figures of the pachuca and
pachuco (i.e., Mexican American homegirl and homeboy) in Chicano cultural
production since the late 1960s. She is currently working on a project that compares Latinas and
Latinos in the United States with the children of Algerian immigrants in France.
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