CHRISTINA.SUE@UTSA.EDU

Christina Sue is originally from the Pacific Northwest and received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington and her MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder for 15 years prior to joining the Department of Sociology & Demography at UTSA in 2023. While at the University of Colorado, she served as undergraduate associate chair and the director of the Honors Residential Academic Program. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration, with a regional focus on the United States and Latin America, and qualitative methodologies. She is author of Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2013) which examines how national ideologies in Mexico influence Mexicans' understandings of racism, race mixture, and blackness. In addition to being a contributing author to Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America (UNC Press, 2014), she leads an associated project which examines the experiences of Mexicans of African descent living in the Pacific coastal region of Mexico. She co-authored Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core (Oxford University Press, 2019), which examines various dimensions of Mexican American experiences in Los Angeles and San Antonio, including ethnic and national identity construction, language use, and political views. Most recently, her work has focused on the consequences of how blackness is constructed by the Mexican state. In addition to her book publications, Professor Sue's work appears in edited volumes and journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.