Monika Gosin

Biography

Monika Gosin is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies with specializations in African American and Latinx relations, migration studies, and Afro-Cuban and other Afro-Latinx immigrant experiences in the United States. She holds an M.A. in Sociology from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego. After completing her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University. Prior to joining the faculty at UC San Diego, Gosin was an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Latin American Studies at the College of William & Mary. 

Gosin is the author of The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami Cornell University Press, 2019). Her book situates Afro-Cuban immigrants within a historical analysis of tense relations between African Americans and (white) Cuban Americans in Miami, and examines how Afro-Latinx positionality intervenes in African- American/Latinx interrelations more broadly. Gosin has also published on raced and gendered media representations of Asian and Black populations within the United States. Her further work on Afro-Cuban immigrants and Afrolatinidades has been published in Latino Studies, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal and edited volumes such as Afro-Latinos in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas, and Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United States.

Research and Teaching Interests  

Black and Latinx studies, migraton studies, race and gender in popular culture and media, intergroup relations.

Selected Publications

The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami. Cornell University Press, 2019.

The death of La Reina de la Salsa: Celia Cruz and the mythification of the black woman. In P. Rivera-Rideau, J. A. Jones and T. Paschel (Eds.) Afro-Latinos in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas (pp. 155-178). Palgrave, 2016. 

A bitter diversion: Afro-Cuban immigrants, race, and every day-life resistance. Latino Studies, 15(1), 4–28, 2017.

The Mariel Boatlift, Haitian migration, and the revelations of the “Black Refugees.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, 17(2), 2021. DOI: http://doi.org/10.33596/anth.457.

No choice but unity: Afro-Cuban immigrants building community in Los Angeles. In N. Deeb-Sossa and J. Bickham Mendez (Eds.) Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United States (pp. 73-92), University of Arizona, 2022.