Publications

As a community-based participant ethnographer, Dr. Calderon has published numerous articles and studies based on his community experiences and observations.

Selected publications include:

  • One Activist Intellectual’s Experience in Surviving and Transforming the Academy,” in Transforming the Ivory Tower: Critical Analyses of Sexism, Homophobia, and Racism in the Academy, edited by Mary Danico and Brett Stockdill, University of Hawaii Press, Forthcoming, Spring, 2012.
  • Perspective-Taking as a Tool for Building Democratic Societies in Diversity & Democracy, Volume 14, No 1, 2010
  • Review of Mexican Migration and the U. S. Economic Crisis: A Transnational Perspective, edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David Fitzgerald, Pedro Lewin Fischer, and Leah Muse-Orlinoff in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, July, 2010.
  • Lessons from an Activist Intellectual: Participatory Research, Teaching, and Learning for Social Change,  in Latin American Perspectives, Issue 134, vol. 31, 1/04:81-94 and republished in Ethnic Studies Research: Approaches and Perspectivesby editor Timothy P. Fong, 2008
  • Partnership in Teaching and Learning: Combining the Practice of Critical Pedagogy with Civic Engagement and Diversityin Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring, 2008 and republished together with another article, “Connecting Classroom Pedagogies to Community-Based Service Learning” in Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring, 2008.
  • An edited book: Race, Poverty, and Social Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning, Stylus Publishing, 2007
  • An article in the edited book with Professor Gilbert Cadena, Linking Critical Democratic Pedagogy, Multiculturalism, and Service Learning to a Project-Based Approach  in Race, Poverty, and Social Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning, Stylus Publishing, 2007
  • “Operation Return to Sender: A Historical Pattern of Immigration Raids,”  Relay Magazine, Open Door Press, Winnipeg, Canada, July/August, 2007.
  • Organizing Immigrant Workers: Action Research and Strategies in the Pomona Day Labor Center”,  in Latino Los Angeles, (edited by Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda Laura Ochoa), 2006
  • “Rose M. Calderon” in Latinas in the U. S.: A Historical Encyclopedia. edited by Vickie L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korral, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
  • Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies in Sociology, Sixth edition (edited with Gilda Ochoa),  American Sociological Association Teaching Resource Center, 2006
  • Inclusion or Exclusion: One Immigrant’s Experience of Cultural and Structural Barriers to Power Sharing and Unity, in Minority Voices, edited by John Meyers, Allyn and Bacon, 2004.
  • Review of Shifting Borders, Rhetoric, Immigration, and California’s Proposition 187 by Kent A. Ono and John M. Sloop in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Vol. 33, No. 1, January, 2004.
  • “A Break of Consciousness.” In Educational Foundations: An Anthology , edited by Roselle K. Chartock. 78 – 82 New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2000.
  • Review of Between Two Nations:  The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City by Michael Jones –Correa in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Vol. 29, No. 3, May, 2000.
  • Interview by Sandra Enos. “A Multicultural and Critical Perspective on Teaching Through Community.” In Cultivating the Sociological Imagination: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Sociology , edited by James Ostrow, Gary Hesser, And Sandra Enos. Washington, D. C.: American Association of Higher Education American Sociological Association, 1999.
  • “One Participant’s View of Cuba,”  Critical Sociology, Vol. 25, #1, 1999.
  • Multi-Ethnic Coalition Building in a Diverse School District, in Critical Sociology, Volume 21, No. 1, 1995
  • Doing Sociology: Connecting the Classroom Experience with a Multiethnic School District, in Teaching Sociology, Volume 24, January, 1996
  • “An Essay on Sources of Inter-Community Conflict and Models of Collaboration.”  Journal of California Politics and Policy.  Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, California Statue University, L. A., 1998.
  • The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California (John Horton with Jose Calderon, Mary Pardo, Leland Saito, Linda Shaw, and Yen Fen Tseng).  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
  • “Multi-Ethnic Coalition Building in a Diverse School District.”  Critical Sociology, 21,1 (1995): 101-111.
  • “The Media As Deviant in the Rodney King Incident.”  In The Image of Violence, Selected Papers, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Edited Will Wright and Steve Kaplan.  University of Southern Colorado, Fall, 1995.
  • Review for October, 1993 (Vol. II, Number 1) “Notas” Newsletter of the Section On Latina and Latino Sociology of the American Sociological Association, Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’ Vision of Progressive Law Practice by Gerald P. Lopez, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992
  • “Hispanic and Latino:  The Viability of Categories for Panethnic Unity.”  Latin American Perspectives, June 1992.
  •  “Language Struggles in a Changing California Community.”  Source Book on Official English, (With John Horton) edited by Jim Crawford, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • “Latinos and Ethnic Conflict in Suburbia:  The Case of Monterey Park.”  Latino Studies Journal,, Vol. 1, No. 2, May, 1990.
  • “How the English Only Initiative Passed in California.”  Chicano Studies and the Politics of Community, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988.
  • “Latinos, Ethnic Conflict, and Political Trends: the case of Monterey Park.” Chicano Studies and the Politics Community, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988.