Daniel HoSang
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science (see also Ethnic Studies page)
Faculty Affiliate in Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management and Center for Study of Women in Society

Education:
BA, History, Wesleyan University, 1993;
PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2007

Research Interests:
U.S. Racial Politics, Cultural Studies, Political Identity, Social Movements, Direct Democracy

Selected Publications

Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California (University of California Press, forthcoming fall 2010). Examines California’s history of racialized ballot measures in the post-World War II era to unearth the tangled roots of “color blind” racial politics.

“Remaking Liberalism in the Sunbelt West: California’s 1964 Fair Housing Ballot Measure and the Politics of Racial Innocence.” In Darren Dochuk and Michelle Nickerson edited, Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South and Southwest, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2011).

“Multiculturalism as Racial Subordination: Education and Black and Brown Power in Postwar Los Angeles.” In Josh Kun and Laura Pulido edited, The Black and Brown Reader. (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming 2011).

“Colorblindness.” In Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity, (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2011).

“The Rise of Racial Liberalism, the Decline of Racial Justice: Lessons from California,” in Joe Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian Warren edited Race and American Political Development,  (NY: Routledge, 2008). See link.

“Family and Community as the Cornerstone of Civic Engagement: Immigrant and Youth Organizing in the Southwest,” National Civic Review 95.4 (2007): 58-61.

“Beyond Policy: Race, Ideology and the Re-imagining of Youth,” in S. Ginwright, P. Noguera, and J. Cammarota edited, Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth, edited by (NY: Routledge: 2006).

Works in Progress

“Racial Formation in the 21st Century.” Edited book project under development with Laura Pulido University of Southern California) and Oneka LaBennett (Fordham University) related to Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States and conference convened at University of Oregon in April, 2009. See link.

“The Better Way to Fight Crime”: Interest Groups, Political Narratives, and Policy Construction on the Oregon Ballot.” Article under development about political discourse and interest group activism around prisons and crime in Oregon.

“Reproductive Justice and Direct Democracy.” Article under development about the use of ballot initiatives in setting public policy related to abortion rights and reproductive justice.

Select Awards

UO Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Resident Scholar, 2008-2009

Best Dissertation Prize of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, 2008

2008 W. Turrentine Jackson Prize for Best Dissertation on the 20th Century US West by the Pacific Coast Branch of the  American Historical Association, 2008

Outstanding Faculty Award, Office of Multicultural Academic Support (OMAS), University of Oregon, 2007-2008.

Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize of the American Studies Association, 2007

Recent Courses

PS 399 Race, Politics and Law (Winter 2009, 2010)
PS 449/549 Racial Politics in the U.S. II (Winter 2008)
ES 498 Theories of Race and Ethnicity (Winter 2008, 2009, 2010)
ES 252 Introduction to Asian American Studies (Fall 2007)
ES 399 Race, Gender, and Policy (Fall 2007)

Curriculum Vitae