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John David 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

Research Interests:
Contemporary racial politics
Critical race theory
Black-Latino relations
Neo-liberalism/globalization
Borderlands
Immigration
Anti-racist movements

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"
"Racial Violence and the Politics of Death"

Degree:
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2004.
Current Research:
Contemporary racial politics, critical race theory, Black-Latino relations, neo-liberalism/globalization, borderlands, immigration, and anti-racist movements.

Recent Awards:
2010
Northwestern University, Associated Student Government, Faculty Honor Roll

2006-2007
WCAS Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University
Faculty Member of the Year - Order of Omega Greek Awards
Northwestern University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program and McMillian Center for International Studies at Yale University

Recent Publications:
(forthcoming) WetBlacks and Brown Panthers: Foundational Blackness and (New) Latino Subjectivities in the Gulf South (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press).

"The Browning of Black Politics" Subjectivities Volume #4 Issue #1 (April 2011). Special Issue titled, Collective Subjects and Political Transformation.  Guest Editors, Alexander Dunst and Caroline Edwards.

"Nations Re-Bound: Race and Biopolitics at EU and US Borders" in (2010) Europe in Black and White: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the 'Old Continent.' eds., Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Fernando Clara, Jo?Ferreira Duarte, and Leonor Pires Martins.  (London: Intellect Books) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Teen Beating Highlights History of Police Brutality in Houston. (2011). 
The Grio-NBC Universal.

"Is Mexican Teen Killed at Border the Emmett Till of Immigration Fight?" (2010).
The Grio-NBC Universal.

Two Sides of Chicago: Olympic Dream vs. Violent Nightmare (2009). 
The Grio-NBC Universal.
Also featured on MSNBC and at Brian Williams NBC Nightly News blog, "Daily Nightly"

To Stop The Growth of Violence, Understand Its Roots. (2009).
The Grio-NBC Universal. 
Also featured at NBC Nightly News and on msnbc.com.