Latin American & Latino Studies
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Jonathan Fox publishes new book about accountability politics
In his new book, Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico, Latin American Studies professor Jonathan Fox explores how the seeds of accountability grow in authoritarian environments.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, alum Hector Tobar speaks on campus
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Oakes College alumnus Hector Tobar spoke on campus November 15.
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New Social Sciences research award honors Martin Chemers
The new Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research in the Division of Social Sciences recognizes senior faculty members who have made major impacts through their research.
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Zavella coedits new book on women and migration
Patricia Zavella, professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has coedited the new book Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader.
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SF Bay Area’s poor and minorities face disproportionate burden of exposure to environmental hazards
From African American residents of West Oakland’s diesel-choked neighborhoods to Latinos in San Francisco’s traffic-snarled Mission District, poor and minority residents of the San Francisco Bay Area get more than their share of exposure to air pollution