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 Ana Ramos-Zayas is currently working on the spatial dimensions of "race" and citizenship in two neighborhoods -the predominantly Puerto Rican area of North Newark and the largely Brazilian area of the Ironbound- in Newark, New Jersey. She is also examining issues concerning the commodification of Brazilian culture, the militarization of Puerto Rican areas, and the gendered dimensions around "stereotypes of the tropics" and "urban competency." Part of Ramos-Zayas' multisited ethnography involves interviews with Brazilian and Puerto Rican youth, not only in two Newark public high schools, but also among high school students in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Santurce, Puerto Rico.
 

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Nationalist Performances: Race, Class, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Nicholas De Genova and Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. New York: Routledge, 2003.