About
Lisa Y. Ramos is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University--College Station, where she has taught since 2008. She received her PhD from Columbia University. She is an historian of the 20th century with interests in critical race theory, identity formations, transnationalism, and social movements. She is currently working on her book manuscript, which will be published by the University of Texas Press in 2015. Her book examines how ideologies of gender, empire, immigration, citizenship, race/ethnicity, and class intersected and informed the lives of Mexican Americans in the early to late twentieth century.
Current Work:
Dr. Ramos is working on a book on the Mexican American civil rights struggles in Texas and the rest of the US Southwest, 1900-1971. She is working on an essay on how notions of race evolved in Texas, which has been under the dominion of three different nations, as well as how these notions influenced socioeconomic and political status for the women and men who lived there. Dr. Ramos is also working on a study of transnational feminism by examining the activities and ideologies of the Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW) in the early to mid-twentieth century.
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