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Nilda Flores- Gozalez

Overview

Nilda Flores- Gozalez is a professor and associate director of sociology in the T. Denny Sanford school of Social and Family Dynamics. She concentrates on Latin American and Latino Studies. Her work focuses on race, ethnicity, identity, youth and Latino sociology and education. She has published several books including Citizens But Not Americans: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials.

Life

Nilda Flores- Gonzalez daughter of Erving and Eva is a professor at the University of Illinois. She is married to Joel Palka and has 3 children Elena, Diana and Julian. She has a Ph.D and M.A in Sociology from the Universtiy of Chicago.

Literary Contributions

As a professor who focuses on Latino Studies, Nilda Fores-Gonzalez has published many books in order to provide a window into a Latino perspective on race, identity and education. Her book Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials she discusses the struggles that Latino millennials face with their identities as being Americans but not feeling apart of society.

She also is the author of School Kids, Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students in which she examines the statistics that show the low percentage of Latino students graduating high school.

 Works (list) 


 * Nilda Flores-Gonzalez (2002). School Kids, Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students. Teachers College Press. ISBN: 978-0807742235


 * Nilda Flores –Gonzalez (2017). Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials. NYU Press. ISBN-978-147984077

External links


 * Search, isearch.asu.edu/profile/3318404.Nilda Flores-Gonzalez.” T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics


 * thesanfordschool.asu.edu/content/nilda-flores-gonzalez “Nilda Flores-Gonzalez.” Wisconsin Public Radio, 11 Oct. 2017, www.wpr.org/people/nilda-flores-gonzalez.