The Trouble with Unity

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I’m an associate professor in NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

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  • NBCLatino

    Journalist Sandra Lilley interviewed me for an article on NBCLatino.com, posted Sept. 19, based on an IBOPE/Zogby International survey: …“What is interesting is that surveys and polls consistently show Latinos mostly identify with the U.S. and with being American, and yet this is continually a surprise to the general public,” says Cristina Beltrán, PhD, an associate…

  • MSNBC & Melissa Harris-Perry

    Somehow I ended up as a guest on the September 2 episode of MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry, discussing the upcoming Democratic National Convention alongside political scientist Dan Drezner, LGBT activist Aisha Moodie-Mills, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, and Myrna Pérez of the Brennan Center for Justice. It was my first-ever TV appearance, and the three days' notice…

  • Contemporary Sociology

    I was a little surprised but enormously pleased to find a review of the book in the latest issue of Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, by anthropologist Howard Campbell of the University of Texas at El Paso. Professor Campbell concludes: "Ultimately, The Trouble with Unity . . . is primarily a philosophical probing into…

  • The first major reviews!

    In the September 2011 issue of Perspectives on Politics, Jeff Spinner-Halev of UNC-Chapel Hill reviews The Trouble with Unity along with Juliet Hooker's Race and the Politics of Solidarity. Professor Spinner-Halev offers a challenging, generally upbeat take on the book: "The idea of applying political theory to movement politics is certainly unusual, but Beltrán deftly…

  • Casa de las Américas

    The Trouble with Unity has landed another award, from Casa de las Américas, for the category of Latino Studies in the United States. It's one of seven books honored by this prestigious Cuban cultural organization, and the only one in English. A real honor.

  • Book awards

    Thanks to the APSA committees for the Ralph Bunche Award and the Race, Ethnicity and Politics section!

  • In fabulous company

    Women in Academia Report posted a nice item highlighting four recipients of APSA book awards; I'm there alongside Jane Mansbridge, Frances Rosenbluth, and Margie Hershey. 

  • The Ralph Bunche Award

    I learned about this several weeks ago, but at last the American Political Science Association has announced its 2011 "awards for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics," so it's OK to post. APSA awarded The Trouble with Unity the Ralph Bunche Award, which "recognizes the best scholarly work in political science published…

  • Choice magazine says: “Recommended.”

    The first external review of The Trouble with Unity. From the April 2011 issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries: "Beltrán (Haverford College) argues that many scholars assume that Latinos share a common consciousness, but this assumption creates problems for adequately studying the Latino role in US culture and politics.… Beltrán champions an agonistic…

  • This just in: “A Political Companion to Walt Whitman”!

    Just got my copy of A Political Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by the dapper and delightful John Seery and published by the University Press of Kentucky. Check out the table of contents here — my essay, "Mestiza Poetics: Walt Whitman, Barack Obama, and the Question of Union," is nestled among pieces by some pretty…