Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Associate Professor
2256 FAB (Sociology)
Department
Sociology, Latina/o and Latin American Studies
Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Nicole Trujillo-Pagan is a qualitative researcher who studies public policy, inequality and social mobility.
She can be contacted for interviews about:
- Latina/o/xs in Detroit and the United States (Hispanic Heritage Month)
- Race and Urban Space
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Race and Ethnicity
Research
Black Space, White Borders: Crossing in American Detroit
This book project explains how bordering practices (policing, mapping, place-based investing, checkpoints, etc.) produce race and space. It uses Detroit as a case study and draws on a variety of data, including interviews with Latina/o/x youth living in Southwest Detroit.
*Latinx / LatinX are unspecific. I argue gender neutrality reproduces patriarchal dominance in https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-018-0138-7. I propose Latina/o/x as an alternative that reflects everyday struggles against sexism and transphobia.
Education
Ph.D. - Sociology (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)Selected publications
Books
Under contract. Black Space, White Borders: Crossing in American Detroit. NYU Press.
Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2013. Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico. Brill Academic Publishers.
Select Refereed Articles
Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2020. “A State’s Right to Make Race through Local Policy: Hispanics, Immigrants and the Shifting Color Line,” Ethnic and Racial Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1817518
Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2019. “Marking Walls and Borders: Latina/o/x Youth, Graffiti and Competing Visions of Community Development,” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 39, 11/12, pp. 975-994.
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-01-2019-0027
Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2019. “Self-Deportation and Forced Choice as Discursive Maneuver: Force and “Voluntary” Migration,” Language, Discourse & Society.
Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2018. "Crossed out by LatinX: Gender neutrality and genderblind sexism," Lat Stud.
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-018-0138-7
Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2018. “A Tale of Four Cities: The Boundaries of Blackness for Ethiopian Immigrants in Washington, D.C., Tel Aviv, Rome and Melbourne,” Social Identities.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2017.1418601
Cumberbatch, Prudence and Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2016. “Hashtag Activism and Why #BlackLivesMatter In (and To) the Classroom,” Radical Teacher, 106.
https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2016.302
Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole. 2014. “Emphasizing the “Complex” in the “Immigration Industrial Complex,” Critical Sociology, 40, 1, pp. 29-46.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920512469888
Public Presentations and Scholarship
Ongoing.
New Books Network
- https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/28e2d01c-8585-4cd5-a88c-120f5e050fe02023.
Scholar-Activist Interviews at:
- go.wayne.edu/border-struggles
2023.
"Who Gets to Be A Detroiter and Why Do We Care?"
on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
https://wdet.org/2023/01/24/who-gets-to-call-themself-a-detroiter/
2018.
“No Shock or Awe about ‘Acting’ LatinX”
http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/02/27/no-shock-or-awe-about-acting-latinx/
“Sobremesa” talk show, on Wayne State Student Radio (WAYN).
Citation index
Courses taught by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Winter Term 2024 (future)
- LAS3710 - Learning About Your Community Through Research
- SOC3710 - Learning About Your Community Through Research
- SOC4201 - Seminar in Race and Ethnicity
Fall Term 2023 (current)
Winter Term 2023
- SOC3710 - Learning About Your Community Through Research
- SOC4201 - Seminar in Race and Ethnicity
- LAS3710 - Learning About Your Community Through Research
Fall Term 2022
Winter Term 2022
- LAS3710 - Learning About Your Community Through Research
- SOC3710 - Learning About Your Community Through Research
- SOC4201 - Seminar in Race and Ethnicity