Rudy D. Torres

Institution:California State University Long Beach

Position:Associate Professor

Research: My teaching and research centers on the political economy and policy dimensions of racism and inequality, and the global restructuring and changing boundaries of urban life in "postindustrial" societies. I have recently undertaken a long-term collaborative research project to study the nature and meaning of class divisions within Chicano/Latino communities of Southern California, and the manner in which changing class and racialized relations manifest themselves in a post-Fordist socio-economic landscape.This project represents one of my more engaging intellectual preoccupations--that is,the attempt to understand the new class structures of "postindustrial" societies, and the changing processes of social stratification and mobility. Needless to say, policy considerations are central to the above project as they relate to thinking about the deepening globalization of production, the break-up of working-class communities, and the limits and contradictions of state intervention in late twentieth century capitalism.

Publications: I have written for a number of publications on issues of politics, policy and the economy, including Socialist Review, Journal of Black Studies, Zeta Magazine, and the Op- Ed page of the Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee.My work has also appeared in edited book volumes published by Plenum and Greewood. I am co-editor of Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader to be published by Routledge in late 1995. I am also co-author of Latinos in a Changing City: Politics, Culture, and the Economy in "Postindustrial" Los Angeles , and co-editor of Capitalism, Migration, and the State: A Reader in Asian and Latino Immigration , both to be published in early 1996 by Routledge.

Additional Information: I am interested in hearing from scholars as well as undergraduate and graduate students or others involved in research related to the study of class and racialized relations in "postindustrial" Los Angeles.

Contact:Rodolfo D. Torres, Ph.D.
Graduate Center for Public Policy
California State University
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
Office : (310) 985 - 7531
FAX : (714) 964 - 5619