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Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

Anthropology & Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

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Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies.  She's the author of National Performances:  Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago (Univ of Chicago Press, 2003) and co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (Routledge, 2003).  She has published various articles on issues of citizenship, race, youth, and space in relation to U.S. Latinos and Latin American populations.  Her current work focuses on race and conceptions of "urban competency" among Brazilian and Puerto Rican youth in Newark, NJ, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), and San Juan (Puerto Rico).  In the fall of 2006, Ramos-Zayas will be teaching the Introduction to Latino Studies course and "Latino Newark" Seminar;  in the spring of 2007, she will be teaching the undergraduate course "Latin American migrants in Europe and Asia" and the graduate seminar "Urban Ethnography."
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