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John D. Márquez

Assistant Professor of African American and Latino/a Studies

Address:
African American Studies Department
5-135 Crowe
1860 S. Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208-2209

Phone: 847-467-0503

Fax: 847-491-4803

Email: j-marquez@northwestern.edu

 

Degree: 
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies.  University of California, San Diego

 

Research Interests: 
Critical Ethnic Studies
Critical Race Theory
Conquests and Settler Colonialism
Borders, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty
Post-Colonial Studies
Race, Crime, and the Law
Ghetto Violence
Latino/a Studies

 

Courses: 
The Social Meaning of Race
Introduction to Latina/o Studies
Capstone Seminar in Latina/o Studies
Comparative Conquests and Colonialisms
Afro-Latino Culture, History, and Politics
Race, Violence, and the Politics of Death and Mourning

 

Awards:

Northwestern University, Associated Student Government, Faculty Honor Roll – 2010

Northwestern University, Associated Student Government, Faculty Honor Roll – 2011

Northwestern University, Order of Omega Greek Awards, Faculty Member of the Year – 2008

Yale University, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program, Post-doctoral Fellowship – 2007 

 

Publications: 

--Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. (Book, forthcoming).

-- "Mexica Binghi I: Chicano Reggae in San Diego." in International Reggae: Current and Future Trends in Popular Music.  ed. Donna P. Hope.  Kingston, Jamaica: Pelican Publishers, 2013.

 -- "The Black Mohicans: Representations of Everyday Violence in Postracial Urban America." in Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime.  Eds. Denise Ferreira da Silva and Paula Chakravartty.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

--"Latinos as the 'Living Dead': Raciality, Expendability, and Border Militarization."  Latino Studies.  Volume 10-4, 2012.

--"The Pre-Occupied: Biopolitics, Race, and the Occupy Movements."  Security Life and Death: Governmentality and Biopower in the Post 9/11 Era.  Claudio Cologuari, ed.  Toronto: De Sitter Publications, 2013.(forthcoming).

-- "Juan Crow: Neoliberalism, De-Colonial Ethics, and Black-Brown Politics."  Critical Ethnic Studies: An Anthology. (forthcoming).

--"The Black Mohicans: Representations of Everyday Violence in Postracial Urban America." American Quarterly.  Volume 64, Number 3, September 2012.

--"The Browning of Black Politics: Foundational Blackness and New Latino Subjectivities." Subjectivity.  Volume #4 Issue #1, April 2011.  

--"Nations Re-Bound: Race and Biopolitics at EU and US Borders."  Europe in Black and White: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the 'Old Continent.' Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Fernando Clara, Joao Ferreira Duarte, and Leonor Pires Martins, eds. (London: Intellect Books, 2011).

-- Review of Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 by Ken Gonzalez-Day. Latino Studies (2009) 7.

-- Review of Chicanismo by Ignacio García.  Password: Historical Journal of the Southwest.  (Spring 1998).

 

Current Projects: 

The New Middle Passage: Borderlands, Body-Counts, and the 'Death Ethic' of Neo-Liberalism. (book manuscript).

Beast Mode: Ghetto Violence and Political Paralysis in 'Post-Racial' Urban America.
(book manuscript).

 "The After-Life of 'J-Def': The Aesthetics of Political Resurrection and Public Mourning in Barrio Pilsen." (journal article).