Ron Schmidt, Professor of Political Science
California State University, Long Beach

Research Interests

  • Ethnic and Racial Politics and Public Policy
  • The Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States
  • The Politics of Language
  • The Politics of Identity
  • Latino Politics in the United States

Recent Publications (post 2000)

 

Book

 

Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.  [Awarded Year 2000 Best Book on Public Policies, Social and Legal Dimensions of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the United States, given by the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics, September 1, 2001]

 

Book Chapters

 

“Defending English in an English-Dominant World: the Ideology of the ‘Official English’ Movement in the United States,” in Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchene, eds., Discourses of Endangerment: Interest and Ideology in the Defense of Languages (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007), pp. 197-215.

 

 “Value-Critical Policy Analysis: the Case of Language Policy in the United States,” in Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds., Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe), 2006, pp. 300-315.

 

“Language Policy Conflict and Latino Political Identity: ‘Symbolic’ Politics and ‘Material Interest’ Politics,” in William E. Nelson, Jr. and Jessica Perez-Monforti, eds., Black and Latino Politics: Issues in American Political Development (Miami: Barnhardt and Ash, Publishers), 2006, pp. 2-11.

 

“Political Theory and Language Policy Research,” in Thomas Ricento, ed., An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Methods (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing), 2005, pp 95-110.

 

Refereed Journal Articles

 

“Comparing Federal Government Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 37:1 (2007), pp. 103-122.

 

“Immigrant Settlement Policy in North America: Two Challenges in the ‘Post-9/11’ Era,” Canadian Foreign Policy, 12:3 (2006), pp. 117-123.

 

“Racialization and language policy: The case of the U.S.A.,” Multilingua. 21 (2002), pp. 141-161.

 

 “Latina/o Identities: Social Diversity and U.S. Politics” (lead author, with Edwina Barvosa-Carter and Rodolfo D. Torres), PS: Political Science and Politics. 33;3 (September 2000), pp. 563-567.

 

Book Reviews

 

Chang, Mitchell J., Daria Witt, James Jones, and Kenji Hakuta, eds. Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003), Educational Review 57:1 (February 2005), pp. 106-108.

 

John Francis Burke, Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2002), Review of Politics (2004).

 

Ruth Wodak, Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl, and Karin Liebhart, The Discursive Construction of National Identity, Angelika Hirsch and Richard Mitten (trans.). (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 154 (2002), pp. 99-101.

 

Rebecca Reichmann, ed. Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality. (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). Canadian Journal of Political Science, 34:1 (2001)

 

Works in Progress

 

Recent Immigration and American Racial Politics – a book manuscript in preparation under contract with University of Michigan Press (lead author, with Rodney E. Hero, Andrew L. Aoki and Yvette Alex-Assensoh).

 

“’Settling’ Immigrants in Two Countries: Canada and the United States” – a comparative analysis of immigrant settlement policies. 

Recent Conference Papers Presented

“Latinos and Language: Why No Political Movement for a Bilingual Language Policy?”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2, 2007.

 

“Abusing Language Issues in California’s Immigration Debate,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, April 22, 2007.

 

“Comparing Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 9, 2007.

 

“Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” presented at the Enders Conference on the State of the Canada – U.S. Relationship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., December 15, 2006.

 

 “English Hegemony and the Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Justice in the United States,” presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, July 8, 2006.

 

“Immigration and the Future of Political Conservatism in the United States,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Center for International Studies (CERIUM), Université de Montréal, Canada, March 31, 2006.

 

“Defending English in an English-Dominant World: The Ideology of the ‘Official English’ Movement in the United States,” presented at the Conference on Social Issues of Applied Linguistics, University of Neuchâtel (CH), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 17, 2004.

 

 “Language Policy Research and Political Theory,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 12, 2004.

 

“Language Policy, Identity Politics and Political Theory,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 29, 2003.

“The Impact of Recent Immigration on Ethno-Racial Politics in the United States,” (lead author, with Rodney Hero, Andrew Aoki, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh), presented at the Nineteenth World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Durban, South Africa, June 30, 2003.

 

“Value-Critical Policy Analysis: the Case of Language Policy in the United States,” presented at the Workshop on Interpretive Methods of Political Research, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Denver, CO, March 29, 2003.

 

 “Political Science, The New Immigration and Racial Politics in the United States: What Do We Know?  What Do We Need to Know?,” (lead author, with Rodney Hero, Andrew Aoki, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2002.

 

 “The Quest for Racial Equality: A Public Policy Framework,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2002.

“Public Policy and Racial Equality: A Framework for Analysis,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 2001.

“Racialisation and Culture in Language Policy Conflict—a Perspective from the U.S.A.,” presented at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of West England, Bristol, UK, April 2001.

“Psychological Profile of Acculturation Orientations: Comparing Host Majority Undergraduates in Los Angeles, Paris, and Montreal,” (with Annie Montreuil, Genevieve Barrette, Richard Bourhis, Marie Personnaz, and Bernard Personnaz), Fifth International Metropolis Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2000.

“Profil d’acculturation des communautés d’accueil: comparaison des Québécois avec les Francais et les Américains” (“Immigrant Acculturation Profiles: Comparison of French-speaking Québécois and Americans”) (with Genevieve Barrette, Annie Montreuil, Richard Y. Bourhis, and Marie et Bernard Personnaz), Annual Conference of the Center for Ethnic Studies, University of Montreal (CEETUM), Montreal, Canada, April 2000.