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Ronald Fernandez, Ph.D. Professor 4405 Vance Academic Center Office Phone: (860)832-3088 Email Address: FernandezR@mail.ccsu.edu Office Hours: Tuesday: 11:00-1:00 pm Wednesday:  8:00-10:00 am Thursday: 11:00-1:00 pm

  Education

Ph.D.	University of Connecticut, 1975, Sociology
M.A.	New School for Social Research, 1968, Sociology
B.A.	Long Island University, 1966, Sociology

  Courses Taught

Ideology and Violence

Diversity and Criminal Justice

World as a Total System

  Research Interests

 

 

  Selected Publications

	America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide (University of Michigan Press, 2007)
	Mappers of Society: The Lives, Times and Legacies of Eight Great Sociologists. This book was published by Praeger in June of 2003.
	America’s Banquet of Cultures: Harnessing Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century. Published by Praeger in June of 2000; the paper version appeared in June of 2001.
	Puerto Rico Past and Present: A Reference Guide. I wrote this book with Serafin Mendez Mendez and Gail Cueto. (Greenwood, 1998). It received the Denali Press Award for 1999 from the American Library Association. Both The New York Public Library and Choice selected this book as one of the outstanding academic books of 1998. The American Library Association selected it as one of the outstanding reference books of 1998.
	The Disenchanted Island: The United States and Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century (New York: Praeger, 1996, 2nd edition). Cultural Puertorriqueña published a Spanish edition of this book in 1996. Daniel Rey Díaz translated the book.

 

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