Ana Aparicio

Assistant Professor (PhD The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY 2004)

Room 201, 515 Clark Ave

(847) 491-5132

a-aparicio@northwestern.edu

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS: Cultural Anthropology, critical race theory, urban processes and transformation, Latinas/os in the U.S., immigration, health disparities, youth, and contemporary politics; United States, Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

Ana Aparicio is a cultural anthropologist primarily concerned with the ways in which people navigate, contest, and transform systems of social and racial inequality. Her research and applied work are in the areas of: youth culture, immigrant and Latina/o political and community organizing, inter-ethnic and inter-racial coalition-building, urban political and cultural formations, analyses of various urban educational initiatives, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and immigration status in the context of welfare reform in New York. Her work emphasizes the ways Latino/a youth, immigrants and the working poor navigate various institutions to construct a sense of “community” and empowerment in urban settings. She’s worked extensively with community-based organizations in New York and served on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations in New York and Boston.

She is the author of Dominican Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (part of the New World Diasporas series edited by Kevin Yelvington, University Press of Florida, 2006), which received the 2006 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award Honorable Mention. In this text Aparicio examines the histories and socio-political, economic, and cultural underpinnings of Dominican organizing, considering the ways in which the intersections of race, bi- or trans-nationalism, and political discourse manifest in their activities and efforts. One of the explicit goals of this work is to understand the dynamics of “community,” resistance, and political citizenship in a contemporary urban, U.S., racialized, Latino/a, and Caribbean immigrant context. She is also the co-editor of Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Poverty of Policy (Greenwood, 2004). She is currently working on a manuscript that focuses on the role of Latino youth in social and racial justice work; this work incorporates both historical and ethnographic methods to examine the political socialization and innovations of young Latina/o activists throughout the twentieth and early twenty first century.

COURSES

Urban Anthropology

Latino Social Movements

Latina/o Youth Cultures

Contemporary Immigration to the U.S.

Excavating Race and Racism in the U.S.

Introduction to the Spanish-speaking Caribbean

Introduction to Qualitative Methods

PUBLICATIONS

2007 “Contesting Race and Power through the Diaspora: Second-Generation Dominican youth in the new Gotham.” special issue on youth and globalization, City and Society, 19(2): 179-201.

2006 Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment, University Press of Florida.

2005 “Latinos in New York,” entry in Oboler and Gonzalez, eds., Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Oxford University Press.

2004 coedited with Kretsedemas, Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Poverty of Policy, Greenwood/Praeger Press.

2004 “Immigrants’ Access to Public Health Care Systems in New York’s ‘Post-Reform’ Era.” In Kretsedemas and Aparicio, eds., Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Poverty of Policy, Greenwood/Praeger Press.

2004 coauthored with Rai and Kretsedemas, “Reflections on Immigrant Hardships after Welfare Reform: New Challenges and Changing Trends.” In Kretsedemas and Aparicio, eds., Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Poverty of Policy, Greenwood/Praeger Press.

2003 coauthored with Davis1, Jacobs, Kochiyama, Mullings, Queeley, Thompson. “Working it Off: Welfare Reform, Workfare and Work Experience Programs in New York City.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 5:2 (Spring 2003).

**reprinted in Marable, Manning. 2005. The New Black Renaissance. CO: Paradigm.

2003 “Dominicans Mobilizing ‘Community:’ Local and Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Immigrant Politics.” Book Review. The Gaston Institute Report (Spring 2003).

2002 coauthored with Davis2, Jacobs, Kochiyama, Mullings, Queeley, Thompson. The Impact of Welfare Reform on Two Communities in New York City. Report, New York State Scholar-Practitioner Team, CUNY Graduate Center.

2000 coauthored with Davis, Jacobs, Mullings. An Annotated Compendium on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Welfare Reform. Report, New YorkState Scholar-Practitioner Team, CUNYGraduateCenter.

1 Davis, 1st author

2 Davis, 1st author