Latino/a Sociology Section Awards

Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award:

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship and Research Award for a Book (co-winners):

Jose Itzigsohn, Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and the Dominican Experience in Providence

And

Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship and Research Award for an Article:

C. Allison Newby and Julie A. Dowling, Black and Hispanic: The Racial Identification of Afro-Cuban Immigrants in the Southwest. In Sociological Perspectives, 2007.

Cristina Maria Riegos Distinguished Student Paper Award:

Laura Lopez-Sanders, Trapped at the Bottom: Racialized and Gendered Labor Queues in New Immigrant Destinations.

Thank you to the Section Awards Committee members for their hard work!