Raul A. Fernandez,
Professor
School of Social
Sciences
University of
California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
949/824-5272(phone);
949/824-3764(fax)
rafernan@uci.edu
Professor
Fernandez completed his secondary education in Cuba, received his B.A.
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966 and his Ph.D.
from Claremont Graduate University in 1971. He has been in the faculty
at UC Irvine since 1969.
His research is
focused on economic and cultural transactions between the U.S. and
Latin America. Fernandez has authored five books , The U.S.-Mexico
Border: A Politico-Economic Profile, University of Notre Dame Press,
1977; the Mexican-American Border Region: Issues and Trends, University
of Notre Dame Press, 1989; Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination,
Chronicle Books and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service, 2002; One hundred years of Chicano History: Empire, Nations
and Migration (with Gilbert González), Routledge, 2003; and From
Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz, forthcoming by the Univ. of
California Press.
He also edited
(with Gilbert Gonzalez et al) Labor versus Empire: Race, Gender and
Migration, Routledge: New York and London,2004, and (with Jeff Belnap)
José Martí’s Our America: From National to Hemispheric
Cultural Studies, Duke University Press, 1998. A Fulbright Fellow, he
is the Curator of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit Latin
Jazz: La combinación Perfecta, which opened in Washington, D.C.
in 2002 and will travel to twelve US cities through 2006. Fernandez is
the managing editor of the web journal Colombia Report.