People in Sociology

Jessica Vasquez

Professor Vasquez (PhD; University of California, Berkeley) recently completed her dissertation, “Across Borders, Across Generations: Immigration, Assimilation, and Racial Identity Formation in Multi-Generational Mexican American Families,” which investigates how Mexican American families transmit meanings of race and identity inter-generationally. Her previous work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies (“Ethnic Identity and Chicano Literature: How Ethnicity Affects Reading and Reading Affects Ethnic Consciousness”). Areas: Race/Ethnicity, Mexican Americans/Latinos, Family, Identity, and Culture.

Professor Jessica Vasquez's Curriculum Vitae

• Soc 310 Introduction to Social Research
• Soc 536 Ethnicity in the United States: Latinos