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  • Latino/a Popular Culture

    Latino/a Popular Culture examines the role of popular culture in shaping Latino/a identity, community, and politics in the United States. Co-edited with Michelle Habell-Pallán. Editors: Mary Romero & Michelle Habell-Pallán Publisher: NYU Press Year: 2002

  • Interdisciplinary and Social Justice

    Interdisciplinary and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability examines how social justice commitments can reshape academic practice. Co-edited with Joseph Parker and Ranu Samantrai. The volume brings together scholars from across disciplines to explore how interdisciplinary approaches can advance social justice…

  • When Care Work Goes Global

    When Care Work Goes Global locates the social relations of domestic work in a global context. Co-edited with Valerie Preston and Wenona Giles, this volume examines how care work is organized, experienced, and contested across national borders. The book brings…

  • Maid in the U.S.A.

    Maid in the U.S.A.

    Maid in the U.S.A. is a groundbreaking study of Chicana domestic workers that examines the unequal distribution of reproductive labor as a paid commodity and its role in reproducing social inequality. “Romero’s pioneering work transformed the study of domestic labor,…

  • The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream

    The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream

    The Maid’s Daughter offers a complex rendering of the upbringing of Olivia — the daughter of a live-in maid to a wealthy family. This ethnographic study traces how Olivia navigated between two worlds: the affluent household where her mother worked…

  • Introducing Intersectionality

    Introducing Intersectionality

    Introducing Intersectionality addresses how to understand social inequality by considering race, class, and gender in tandem, along with sexuality, citizenship, and ableism. The book demonstrates how inclusive analysis of domination moves toward solutions for diverse populations. “Romero provides an accessible…

  • Research Handbook on Intersectionality

    Research Handbook on Intersectionality

    Critical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches that address the complexities of social inequality. As editor, Mary Romero brings together leading…

  • The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education – Taiwan Chinese

    The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education – Taiwan Chinese

    The Traditional Chinese edition of The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education was published in Taiwan in 2004. This edition brings Eric Margolis’s analysis of how higher education institutions produce race, class, and gender hierarchies to Chinese-speaking scholars in Taiwan. Editor:…

  • The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education – Mainland Chinese

    The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education – Mainland Chinese

    The Simplified Chinese translation of The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education was translated by Xue Xiaohua and published by Huadong Normal University Press in 2006. This edition brings Eric Margolis’s analysis of how higher education institutions produce race, class, and…

  • The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

    The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

    The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality. Co-edited with Mary Romero, this comprehensive volume explores how social inequalities are produced, maintained, and…