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Juan D. Delgado is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the comparative study of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly analyzing the long-term processes of social inequality, statistical invisibility, and the political organization of people of African descent in Colombia and Mexico. Delgado develops mixed-method strategies that combine data from censuses and surveys with archival sources, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic observations. His current work centers on census politics and the struggles surrounding the official categorization of Blackness. His research has received generous support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD.
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