Latinos and Media Project
BIO
Alfonso Morales is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at
the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research has been supported by
the American Bar Foundation, the Ford Foundation and other organizations.
He is interested in developing theoretically informed and experimentally
tested solutions to social problems.
His publications are found in Spanish and English and have appeared in
Economic Development Quarterly, the Law and Society Review, the
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, the Journal of
Border Studies and other journals.
He is the editor of the book "Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and
Social Science" published in 2003 by Ashgate Press and co-editor (with
John Cross) of "Street Sales: Commerce in a Post-Modern World" 2007,
Routledge.
For details of his publications, background and other interests please see
this Vitae and these webpages
www.openair.org
http://www.wisc.edu/urpl/
Latino-Related Research and Publications
Research
In terms of Latinos and Media he has published articles on how radio stations make
programming choices and he is currently working on how small market
newspapers report on Latinos in states with small but growing Latino
populations.
Publications
Books (All refereed)
Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective. June 2007. Edited by John Cross and Alfonso Morales. UK Routledge Press, (312 pages).
Making Money in the Market: Street Vending at Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market. Sole authored Book Draft – 60,000 words, contract offer from Lexington books, under review at several university presses.
Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science, edited by Alfonso Morales. 2003. UK: Ashgate Press, (278 pages).
A review in the Law and Politics Book Review can be found at: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/
Articles and Book Chapters (* = Refereed Journal or Book)
*Fernandez, Leticia and Alfonso Morales. 2007. “Hispanic Women's Language Proficiency and Utilization of Cancer Screening Services.” Ethnicity and Health. Forthcoming second issue of 2007.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2007. “Conclusion: Law, Deviance and Defining Vendors and Vending.” Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective. Edited by John Cross and Alfonso Morales, London, Routledge.
*John Cross and Alfonso Morales. 2007. “Introduction: Locating Street Markets in the Modern/Postmodern World.” Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective.
*Morales, Alfonso and Leticia Fernandez. 2006. “The Social Origins and Prospects for Mobility of Recent Mexican Law School Graduates.” Del gobierno de los abogados al imperio de las leyes. Estudios sociojurídicos sobre educación y profesión jurídicas en el México contemporáneo. (From Governance by Lawyers to the Rule of Law: Socio-legal studies of education and Law in Contemporary Mexico) Edited by Hector Fix-Fierro. Mexico City, UNAM Press.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2005. “Radio Mercado: Electronic Mercados in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region.” Mass Media Systems in a Multi-cultural World edited by Guy Meiss and Alice Tait. CT: Greenwood Press.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2003. “Pragmatism as a Discipline: (Re)Introducing Philosophy to Law and Social Science.” Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science, edited by Alfonso Morales. UK: Ashgate Press, xi-xxiv.
*Morales, Alfonso and Robert Jimenez 2003. “A Pragmatist Theory of Social Movement Leadership” Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science, edited by Alfonso Morales. UK: Ashgate Press, 198-219.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2003. “A Pragmatist Position on (Re)Constructing Latin American Socio-Legal Studies,” Beyond Law, 26:169-190.
Morales, Alfonso. 2003. “A Pragmatist Position on (Re)Constructing Latin American Socio-Legal Studies,” Translated into Spanish and reprinted in Law and Society in Latin America: Toward the Consolidation of Critical Legal Studies, edited by Mauricio García Villegas and César Rodríguez. ILSA/National University of Columbia.
Morales, Alfonso, Marco Delgado and Elizabeth Carson. 2003. “Succeeding by Six: The Training Parents are Requesting for Supporting their Children in South and South Central El Paso,” Digame: Policy and Politics in the Texas Border, edited by Dennis Soden, Christine Brenner and Irasema Coronado. IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, (241-258).
*Morales, Alfonso. 2002. “Radio Mercado: Station Format and Alternative Models of the Audience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region.” Journal of Borderlands Studies 17 (1:79-102).
*Morales, Alfonso. 2001. “Policy from Theory: A Critical Reconstruction of Theory on the ‘Informal’ Economy,” Sociological Imagination, 38 (3): 190-203.
*Morales, Alfonso. 2000. “Peddling Policy: Street Vending in Historical and Contemporary Context,” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20 (3/4): 76-99.
*Balkin, Steve and Alfonso Morales. 2000. “Linking Street Vendors to the Internet,” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20 (3/4) 99-122.
*Morales, Alfonso. 1998. “Income Tax Compliance and Alternative Views of Ethics and Human Nature,” Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, 1 (3): 380-400.
Morales, Alfonso. 1998. “Income Tax Compliance and Alternative Views of Ethics and Human Nature,” Reprinted in The Ethics of Tax Evasion, edited by Robert W. McGee. NJ: The Dumont Institute for Public Policy Research
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. “Epistemic Reflections on the Informal Economy,” The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 17 (3/4):1-17.
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. “Uncertainty and the Organization of Street Vending Business,” The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 17 (3/4): 191-212.
*Morales, Alfonso, Steve Balkin and Joe Persky. 1995. "The Value of Benefits of a Public Street Market: The Case of Maxwell Street." Economic Development Quarterly, 9 (4): 304-320.
Debate in this journal over this paper:
Rhonda Halperin, “The Use of Economic Anthropology in Economic Development,” 321-322.
Wim Wiewel, “The Use of Economic Analysis in Public Policy,” 324-326.
Morales, Alfonso, Steve Balkin and Joe Persky. 1995. "Contradictions and Irony in Policy
Research on the Informal Economy: A Reply." Economic Development Quarterly, 9 (4): 327-330.
Accepted but not yet Published (* = Refereed Journal or Book)
*Morales, Alfonso. “Acequias y Venas: The Social Organization of Water in Northern New Mexico” in Voces de la Tierra: Four Hundred Years of Acequia Farming in the Rio Arriba Bioregion, 1598-1998, edited by Devon Peña. AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Articles and Book Chapters Under Review (* = Refereed Journal or Book)
*Morales, Alfonso and Leticia Fernandez. “The Social Origins and Prospects for Mobility of Recent Mexican Law School Graduates.” Under review at Beyond Law.
*Morales, Alfonso. “A Social Currency Approach to Improving Health Care Access for Migrant Workers.” Under review at Southern Rural Sociology.
Editor, Special Issue of Journals (* = Refereed Journal or Book)
*Morales, Alfonso. 2001. Special Issue on the Informal Economy, Sociological Imagination 38 (3).
*Morales, Alfonso and John Cross. 2000. Testingthe Boundaries of the Informal Sector, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20 (9–10).
*Morales, Alfonso and Steve Balkin. 2000. The Informal Economy: Concepts and Culture, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20 (1–2)
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. The Informal Economy, The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 17 (3/4).
Other Publications
John Cross and Alfonso Morales. 2007. “Preface and acknowledgements.” In Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective. Edited by John Cross and Alfonso Morales, London, Routledge.
Morales, Alfonso and Roberto Pedace. 2005. “The Economic Assimilation of Latinos” in Encyclopedia Latino: History Culture, Society. Edited by Ilan Stavans. New York, Grolier. (3000 words)
Morales, Alfonso and Roberto Pedace. 2005. “The Economic Assimilation of Latinos” in Hispanics Today. A report of the Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility.Washington DC. (5000 words)
Morales, Alfonso. 1998. “Pragmatism’s Mundanity: Epistemic Foundations for a Practicing Socio-legal Science.” Review essay of the book, Realistic Socio-Legal Theory, by Brian Tamanaha, Law and Society Review, 32 (2): 493-514.
Electronic Publications
Open-Air Market net: The World Wide guide to Farmers’ markets, Street markets, Flea Markets and Street vendors, initiated with Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University, and John Cross, University of Texas-Pan American, URL: http://www.openair.org/. This is the premier webpage for international scholarly research, teaching and service work on street vendors and street vending. Students and faculty colleagues contact us regularly to discuss research projects. The page has been visited from almost every country in the world and does more than 1,500,000 hits per year (from September 2002- August 2003 1,623,226 hits were received from 120 countries, see http://www.openair.org/stats/). The page serves as a forum for the exchange of research and ideas, which results in a variety of scholarly publications, for myself, and others.
Morales, Alfonso. 2005. “Social Currency and the Collective Quality of Life.” A report prepared based on grants earned from the Ford Foundation and Texas Tech/UTEP. http://academics.utep.edu/cce'
Book Reviews
Morales, Alfonso. 2007. Review of The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States. By Shai J. Lavi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Morales, Alfonso. 1996. Review of Critical Race Theory, edited by Richard Delgado. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, Contemporary Sociology 25 (3): 388-89
Morales, Alfonso. 1994. "Household Provisioning and Rationalization Processes." Book Reviews of Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America, edited by Victor E. Tokman. Boulder, CO: Rienner and Creating and Transforming Households, Joan Smith and Immanuel Wallerstein et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Contemporary Sociology 23, 4: 553-55.
Morales, Alfonso. 1994. Book Review of Risk: A Sociological Theory by Niklas Luhmann, American Journal of Sociology 100: 303-05.
Reports
Morales, Alfonso. 2006. Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market: Promise and Prospects. Prepared for the Maxwell Street Foundation.
Morales, Alfonso and Marco Delgado. 2001. “What Community Members Need to Help Children Succeed: El Pasonans requests for Training to Enrich Children’s Lives.” United Way Success by Six Program, for the United Way of El Paso.
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. “The Spirit of Property.” Commissioned by the Center for Land Grant Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Morales, Alfonso. 1991. “Institutionalizing Informal Economic Resources: The Case of Property in Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market.” American Bar Foundation, ABF Working paper 9125.
Morales, Alfonso. 1991. “Tax Problems of New Immigrants: Merchants of Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market.” American Bar Foundation, ABF Working paper 9126.
Media
Featured in the documentary "Cheat You Fair: The Story Of Maxwell Street." The film made its world premiere at this year's Chicago International Documentary Festival.
http://www.chicagodocfestival.org/07_cheat%20your%20fair.htm
Morales, Alfonso and Steve Balkin. 1995. Making Money at the Market: The Social Organization of Street Vending. Video. Purchased by various University libraries.
Morales, Alfonso. 1991. Making Money at the Market: Photos from Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market. Photographs accepted to a juried art show in Chicago.
Work in Progress
The Maxwell Street Monograph is my primary focus.