A bilingual award-winning author of 40 books and countless articles on Latin America, Mexico, globalization, labor migration, Latin@s, culture, and public policy.

Three-time Fulbright Scholar, Internet professor for the State University of New York, and honorary editor of Latin American Perspectives, he is a member of the Canadian NGO Alternatives and serves on the coordinating committees for the International Congress of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity - www.defensahumanidad.cu - and civil society’s Benito Juarez Tribunal (vice-president) that judged U.S. terrorism against Cuba in April of 2005.

He writes for the Mexico City daily La Jornada, the Buenos Aires monthly Mate Amargo, and such internet sites as www.Rebelion.org

His recent books, besides several in Spanish, include: Latin America: History, Politics, and U.S. Policy; Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with Politics and History; Salvador Allende: Chile's Voice of Democracy; and Latino Visions: Contemporary Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American Artists. His bilingual blog is www.jamescockcroft.com

Selected publications:

MEXICO’S HOPE: AN ENCOUNTER WITH POLITICS AND HISTORY. NY: Monthly Review Press, 1998

LATIN AMERICA: HISTORY, POLITICS, AND U.S. POLICY. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/International Thomson Publishing, Second edition, 1998

LATINOS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL EDUCATION. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, now NY: Scholastic, 1995

THE HISPANIC STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, now NY: Scholastic, 1994

(with Hugh M. Hamill, et al.) CAUDILLOS: DICTATORS IN SPANISH AMERICA (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992).

DANIEL ORTEGA. Preface by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. NY: Chelsea House, 1991

DIEGO RIVERA. NY: Chelsea House, 1991

(with Nora Hamilton, et al.) MODERN MEXICO: STATE, ECONOMY, AND SOCIAL CONFLICT (Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 1985).

(with Carlos Vázquez, Manuel García y Griego, et al.) MEXICAN U.S. RELATIONS: CONFLICT OR CONVERGENCE? Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 1983.

(with Georg Stauth, Bryan Turner, Abbas Vali) IRAN: PRE CAPITALISM, CAPITALISM, AND REVOLUTION. Saarbrucken/Fort Lauderdale: Verlag breitenbach Publishers, 1980.

LAS CLASES Y EL ESTADO EN MEXICO. México: Editorial Nuestro Tiempo, 1979.

(with Bray, Corradi, Harding, Jonas, Petras, Dos Santos) LATIN AMERICA THE STRUGGLE WITH DEPENDENCY AND BEYOND, edited by Chilcote and Edelstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1974. Various editions.

INTELLECTUAL PRECURSORS OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, 1900 1913. Austin: The Univ. of Texas Press, 1968 (Bolton Prize second place to John Womack's ZAPATA, 1968); paperback ed. with Note to Chicano Readers, 1976.

(with Ronald Hilton) 1964 COLLIER'S YEAR BOOK (Latin American nations).

(with Ronald Hilton) WORLDMARK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NATIONS, 1963 ed., v. 5 (nations of the Americas). Pp. 312.