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The Sociology Colloquium Series: Dr. G. Cristina Mora

On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. G. Cristina Mora from the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Mora is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses mainly on immigration, categorization, and racial and political attitudes in the United States. Her first book, Making Hispanics, was published by the University of Chicago Press and provides the first historical account of the rise of the “Hispanic/Latino” category in the United States. Mora has received numerous awards for her scholarship from the American Sociological Association, and her research has been the subject of various national media segments in venues like the Atlantic, the New Yorker, NPR, and Latino USA. In 2020, she helped to oversee the largest survey on Covid-19 and partisan politics in California and published some of the state’s first briefs and academic articles on the subject. She is currently working on her next book, California Color Lines, which examines inequality, perceptions of government, and political attitudes in California. In 2021 and 2022, she received the UCB Graduate Mentoring Award, and the Chancellors Award for Advancing Equity and Inclusion, and led UC Berkeley’s first social-science cluster hire on the issue of “Latinos and Democracy.”

Colloquia Title and Topic:

"California Color Lines: Immigration and Racial Attitudes in the Golden State"

How is increasing immigration and racial diversity understood in an era of economic precarity? The California Color Lines project examines these issues by marshalling survey and linked, in-depth interview data to understand how residents of one of the nation’s most diverse and economically unequal states form social and political worldviews. Our findings suggest that racial and immigration attitudes are powerfully linked and that much nuance and theoretical insight can be found when we look beyond the attitudinal poles to consider how ambiguity and contradictions structure contemporary sentiments. Overall, the project contributes toward a larger move to consider the nation as composed of distinct regional racial regimes that are shaped by the demographic, political, and economic histories of place.

 

 

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