Suzanne Oboler

Suzanne Oboler is a Peruvian-American scholar and Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.
Oboler is the author of "Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States" and the founding Editor of the journal "Latino Studies" (2002-2012). She has edited several books, including "Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging; Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prison in the United States" (2006), and co-edited "Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos" (2009). Oboler is also co-Editor in Chief of "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/as in the United States".