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 Presentation in the United States and the founding Editor of the journal Latino Studies. She has edited several books, including Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging; Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prison in the United States, and co-edited Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos. Oboler is also co-Editor in Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/as in the United States.