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Chapter 3 Service to America, Struggles with America Luis Alvarez, Ph.D Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Chapter Contributions: Chapter 4 – The Rise of the Chicano Movement, Chapter 5 – The Chicano Cultural Renaissance & Chapter 6 – Perseverance, Achieving American Dreams Trained as a political scientist at Stanford University, Ortiz teaches and conducts research on Chicana/o political activism. He has published articles in scholarly journals and served as co-editor of Chicano Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads: Social, Economic and Political Change (University of Arizona Press 1996) and Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends (University of Arizona Press 2000). He also serves as president of the Board of Alliance San Diego, a community empowerment organization. Recognized for his many contributions to Chicano/a studies, he was inducted into the Stanford Alumni Multicultural Hall of Fame. Academic Facilitator San Diego Latino Legacy project by Latino Legacy Foundation Isidro D. Ortiz, Ph.D. Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University The first in his family to go to college, Griswold del Castillo attended University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles. His books include: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict (1990), La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the present (1984), The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History (1980), Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit (with Richard Garcia) (1995), North to Aztlan: Mexican Americans in United States History (with Arnoldo De Leon) , (1996) and C hicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Social Justice (2008). Chapter 1 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – 1848 Ricardo Griswold del Castillo, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University Holding a doctorate in history from University of California, San Diego, Patiño’s broader research and teaching interests include comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicano/a-Latino/a history, diaspora transnationalism/borderlands, and social movements and political mobilizations. His book, Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego , was published in 2017, North Carolina Press. His recent study investigates the conceptualization and historical practice of solidarity, primarily through the lens of African Americans, Chicana/o/x, and Puerto Ricans in the 20th century. Chapter 2 Rebuilding Lives, Against All Odds Jimmy Patiño, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Chicano & Latino Studies, University of Minnesota
Alvarez received his B.A. in history from University of California, San Diego and Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the former Associate Dean for Academic Personnel and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Division of Arts and Humanities, University of California, San Diego. He also served as Director of the Chicanx-Latinx Studies Program and as inaugural Director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities at University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (UC Press, 2008), Chicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible (University of Texas Press, 2022), and co-editor of Another University is Possible (University Readers, 2010).
Chapter 4 The Rise of the Chicano Movement Isidro Ortiz, Ph.D. Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University
Chapter 5 The Chicano Cultural Renaissance
Isidro Ortiz, Ph.D. Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University
Rita Sanchez, M.A. Professor Emerita San Diego Mesa College
Sanchez, born in San Bernardino, California, has master degrees in English and education from Stanford University, where she taught the first-ever course on Chicanas. She became the first full-time woman professor of Chicano Studies at San Diego State University in 1974 and the first woman Chair of Chicano Studies at San Diego Mesa College in 1990. She has authored several works. In 2011, Sanchez was inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame for Outstanding Activism.
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