B.A., University of California, Berkeley (Political Science), 1992
M.A., University of California, Berkeley (Political Science), 1994
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley (Political Science), 2001
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Gaston Alonso
Profile
Gaston Alonso is a political scientist educated at University of California, Berkeley and a professor at Brooklyn College. His teaching specializes in American politics with a focus on the politics of race, gender and sexuality. His research has focused on the contemporary and the historical education of non-whites in the US and US territories.
Education
Selected Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Books and Publications
Gaston Alonso and Joshua M. Dunn, "Critical Dialogue: Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v Jenkins and Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education," Perspectives on Politics (2011) 9:2, pp. 391-6
Alonso, Gaston, Noel Anderson, Jeanne Theoharis and Celina Su. Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education. New York: New York University Press.
Gaston Alonso, Noel Anderson, Kenneth Gould, and Alex Vitale, eds., People, Power and Politics 11h Edition (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing)
"Selling Miami: Tourism Promotion and Immigrant Neighbourhoods in the Capital of Latin America." Tourism, Ethnic Diversity, and the City. Ed. Jan Rath. London: Routledge.
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
PSC-CUNY Research Grant Award.
PSC-CUNY Research Grant Award.
The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities.
PSC-CUNY Research Incentive Award.
Research Activities
Currently working on a book-length research project titled "Educating Workers Not Citizens: Public Education, Imperialism and Citizenship in US History." The book examines the racial ideologies and pedagogical practices that structured the political subjugation of Blacks and Native Americans in the Jim Crow South, Native Hawai'ians in annexed Hawai'i, Mexicans in the American Southwest and Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico. As such, the book overcomes the schism between scholars of US politics and culture who tend to focus on the impact US expansion had on power dynamics and cultural relations within the United States and area studies scholars who tend to focus on the impact such expansion had on the dynamics and cultures of their geographic area of expertise.