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Salvador Murguia

Dr. Salvador Jiménez Murguía is Associate Professor of Sociology at Taft College. 

Murguía holds a Doctoral Degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught for more than 20 years at several different institutions in the United States and Japan. 

At Taft College, Murguía teaches Introduction to Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Marriage, Sociology of Deviance, and Introduction to Ethnic Studies. His research interests include race and racism; deviance and failure; incarceration; new religious movements; popular culture; and global inequality. 

Professor Murguíia has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, books, and edited volumes/encyclopedias. He has written books on the significance of prison food, the (un)popular culture of failure, and edited The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films (2019) and Trumping Truth: Essays on the Destructive Power of “Alternative Facts” (2019). 

Murguía’s latest work is Brownface: (mis)Representations of Latinos in Film, Internet, Recreation, and Beyond.

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