Tanya Golash Boza
Founder of the Racism, Capitalism, and the Law Lab; Professor of Sociology, University of California-Merced
Chapter Member: Maryland-Washington, D.C. SSN
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About Tanya
Dr. Golash-Boza has spent her scholarly career working to understand why racial and economic disparities exist, how racism intersects with capitalism, and how our legal system upholds these inequities. She is the author of over 50 academic articles and six books. Her latest book, which was awarded the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Studies Section of ASA, is Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap (University of California Press 2023). She is the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center.
Contributions
The Deportation Crisis for Latino Immigrant Men and Their Families
Key Findings Brief,
In the News
Opinion: "Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History," Tanya Golash Boza (with ), CounterPunch, March 25, 2019.
Opinion: "Which 3-Letter Agency is Enforcing US Immigration Laws at the Border?," Tanya Golash Boza, The Conversation, July 10, 2018.
Quoted by Jose Moreno in "In Bensalem, a Potential Police Alliance with ICE Brings a Warning," The Inquirer, January 12, 2018.
Opinion: "America’s Mass Incarceration Problem in 5 Charts – or, Why Sessions Shouldn’t Bring Back Mandatory Minimums," Tanya Golash Boza, The Conversation, May 29, 2017.
Opinion: "Here’s How Undocumented Students are Able to Enroll at American Universities," Tanya Golash Boza (with ), The Conversation, November 24, 2016.
Opinion: "It’s Time to Legalize All Undocumented Immigrants," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera America, August 7, 2015.
Opinion: "Racism, Citizenship and Deportation in the United States," Tanya Golash Boza, Open Democracy, June 23, 2015.
Opinion: "Mass Deportation Targets Black and Latino Men," Tanya Golash Boza, Santa Barbara Independent, January 24, 2015.
Interviewed in "Golash-Boza interviewed on immigration for Society Pages," Society Pages, February 24, 2014.
Opinion: "Does Racism Help or Hurt White America?," Tanya Golash Boza, Counterpunch, January 29, 2014.
Opinion: "Obama's Deportation Record is One of Discrimination," Tanya Golash Boza, Houston Chronicle, October 24, 2013.
Opinion: "The Problems with White Allies and White Privilege," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera, September 20, 2013.
Opinion: "Scientific Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Once Again," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera, May 24, 2013.
Opinion: "Can the United States Solve the Problem of Undocumented Immigration?," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera, April 23, 2013.
Opinion: "No Human Being is Illegal: It's Time to Drop the 'I-Word'," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera, April 8, 2013.
Opinion: "The Key Elements of a Successful Immigration Policy," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera, March 25, 2013.
Opinion: "The Collateral Consequences of Mass Deportation," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera, March 22, 2013.
Opinion: "The U.S. Should Release Thousands, Not Hundreds of Detainees," Tanya Golash Boza, Al Jazeera, March 1, 2013.
Opinion: "Obama’s Unprecedented Number of Deportations: The Shift from Border to Interior Enforcement of Immigration Laws," Tanya Golash Boza, Counterpunch, January 25-27, 2013.
Publications
"Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program" (with ). Latino Studies 11, no. 3 (2013): 271-292.
Outlines how deportation policies have shifted in recent years from border to interior enforcement and how this shift has targeted Latino men.
"Causes and Consequences of International Migration: Sociological Evidence for the Right to Mobility" (with ). The International Journal of Human Rights 16, no. 8 (2012): 1213-1227.
Argues that the right to move across national borders should be incorporated into human rights doctrine.
"Had They Been Polite and Civilized, None of This Would Have Happened: Discourses of Race and Racism in Multicultural Lima" Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 5, no. 3 (2010): 317-330.
Explains how Peruvians are aware that racism is a problem, decry racism, yet continue to reproduce racism through practices and beliefs.