Adalberto Aguirre Jr.

Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., is a professor of sociology at the University of California-Riverside. His research interests are: neoliberal ideology and its effects on the education of students of color; the political economy of immigration detention centers in the United States; equity issues for women and minority faculty in higher education; and using critical race theory as a conceptual framework for interpreting the experiences of faculty of color in academia. His areas of expertise are: affirmative action theories and models in higher education; the demography of racial and ethnic minority populations in the US; and leadership in higher education. Some of his publications are: A. Aguirre Jr. & J. Turner, American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination 7^th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011); A. Aguirre Jr., E. Rodriguez, & J. Simmers, “The cultural production of Mexican identity in the United States: An examination of the Mexican threat narrative,” Social Identities 17(5): 695-707, (2011); A. Aguirre Jr., “Diversity as interest-convergence in academia: A critical race theory story,” Social Identities 16(6): 761-772, (2010).