Dr. Victor Rodriguez is a professor of sociology and anthropology in the  Chicano and Latino Studies Department at California State University where he specializes in the racialization of Latino identity, and colonialism and political economics of Puerto Rico.  In the past the has taught Latino politics at the University of California at Irvine, Concordia University and Metropolitan University in Puerto Rico. Prof. Rodriguez’s articles and opeds have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Hispanic Magazine, Counterpunch, Politico, Dissident Voice and others.  Victor has written several books that deal with the politics of race, gender and class in the Mexican and Puerto Rican experience, he last being “The Racialization of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Asians from the 1890s to 1930s. 

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