"Review Essay: Brown is Beautiful," Law & Society Review Volume 39, Issue 1 (in press).

"Violation of Latino Civil Rights Resulting From INS and Local Police's Use of Race, Culture and Class Profiling: The Case of the Chandler Roundup in Arizona," with Marwah Serag, University of Cleveland Law Review Volume 51 (2004).

"Nanny Diaries and Other Stories: Imagining Women's Labor in the Social Reproduction of American Families," Symposium on Beyond Belonging: Challenging the Boundaries of Nationality, DePaul Law Review Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 809-847 (2003).

"Unraveling Privilege: Workers' Children and the Hidden Costs of Paid Child Care," Symposium on The Structures of Care Work Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 76, pp. 101-121 (2001). Unraveling Privilege

"State Violence, and the Social and Legal Construction of Latino Criminality: From El Bandido to Gang Member," LatCrit V Symposium co-published by Denver University Law Review Volume 78, No. 4, pp. 1081-1118 (2001).

"Afterword, Historicizing and Symbolizing a Racial Ethnic Identity: Lessons for Coalition Building with a Social Justice Agenda," UC Davis Law Review (2000) Volume 33, No. 4, pp. 1599-1625.

"Disciplining the Feminist Bodies of Knowledge: Are We Creating or Reproducing Academic Structure?" NWSA Journal, (Summer 2000) Volume 12. No 2, pp. 148-162.

"Bursting the Foundational Myths of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism," Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. (2000) Volume 8, Number 1, pp. 177-195.

"Marking Time and Progress," Millennial Special Issue. Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2000) Volume 25, Number 4, pp. 1013-16.

Reprinted in Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard (ed.) Feminisms at a Millennium, University of Chicago Press pp. 24-27, (2000).

"Integrating Sociology: Observations on Race and Gender Relations in Sociology Graduate Programs," with Eric Margolis, Race and Society. (1999) Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 1-24.

"Immigration, The Servant Problem, and the Legacy of the Domestic Labor Debate: ‘Where Can You Get Good Help These Days?'" University of Miami Law Review (1999) Volume 53, Number 4, pp. 1045-1064.

"‘The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative': The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Sociology Departments," with Eric Margolis, Harvard Educational Review (1998) Volume 68, Issue 1, pp. 1-21.

Reprinted in Stephen Ball (ed.) Sociology of Education, Major Themes, London and New York: Routledge, (2000) pp. 1276-1311.

Reprinted in Jose A. Segarra and Ricardo Dobles (eds.) Learning as a Political Act: Struggles for Learning and Learning from Struggles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review, (1999) pp. 259-288.

"Class-Based, Gendered and Racialized Institution of Higher Education: Everyday Life of Academia From the View of Chicana Faculty," Race Gender & Class: Latina/o American Voices (1997) Volume 4 , Number 2, pp. 151-173.

"Cuentos from a Maid's Daughter: Stories of Socialization and Cultural Resistance," Latino Studies Journal. (1993) Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 7-18.

"Please Don't Call Me for the Quincentennial," CSWS Review, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon. (1992) pp. 6-9.

"Not Just Like One of the Family: Chicana Domestics Establishing Professional Relationships With Employers," Feminist Issues. (1990) Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 33-41.

"Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service," Qualitative Sociology. (1988) Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 319-334.

Reprinted in Nancy Cott's History of Women in America: Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work. Volume 4, Westport, CT: Meckler Ltd. (1992)

Reprinted in Dana Dunn's Workplace/Women's Place. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company (1997) pp. 358-368.

Reprinted in Paul Dubeck and and Dunn's Workplace/Women's Place: An Anthology. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company (second edition, 2002), pp. 345-354.

"Chicano Discourse About Language Use," Language Problems Language Planning. (1988) Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 110-129.

"Sisterhood and Domestic Service: Race, Class and Gender in the Mistress-Maid Relationship," Humanity and Society (1988) Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 318-346.

"Comparison Between Strategies Used on Prisoners of War and Battered Wives," Sex Roles, (1985) Volume 13, Issues 9 and 10, pp. 537-547.

"The Greater Evil: The Role of Radical Unions in the End of Industrial Feudalism," with Eric Margolis, Research in Social Policy: Critical Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. (1987) Volume 1, pp. 109-144.

"Domestic Work in Transition from Rural to Urban Life: A Case of La Chicana," Women's Studies. (1987) Volume 13, Issue 3, pp. 199-220.

"El Paso Salt War: Mob Action or Political Struggle," Aztlan International Journal of Chicano Studies Research (1985) Volume 16, Issues 1 and 2, pp. 119-143.

Reprinted in Dennis Bixler-Marquez, Carlos F. Oretga, Rosalina Solorzano Torres, and Lorenzo LaFarelle (eds.) Chicano Studies, Survey and Analysis. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company (1997) pp. 21-27.

"Tending the Beets: Campesinas and the Great Western Sugar Company," with Eric Margolis, Revista Mujeres, (1985) Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 17-27.