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I sidro D. O rtiz , P h .D. Academic Facilitator for San Diego Latino Legacy project by Latino Legacy Foundation
CHAPTER 3 L uis A lvarez , P h .D. Associate Professor of History, UC San Diego Associate Dean for Academic Personnel and Equity, Diversity, and Inclu- sion in the Division of Arts and Humanities, UC San Diego Alvarez has also served as Director of the Chicanx-Latinx Studies Pro- gram and as inaugural Director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities at UC 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 (Univ. Of Texas Press, 2022), and co-editor of Another University is Possible. CHAPTER 4 I sidro O rtiz , P h .D. Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University Bio on Page 166 CHAPTER 5 R ita S anchez , M.A. Professor Emerita Mesa College Sanchez, born in San Bernardino, California, has advanced degrees in English 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 Mesa College in 1990. She has authored several works. In 2011 Sanchez was inducted into the San Diego County Woman’s Hall of Fame for Outstanding Activism. I sidro O rtiz , P h .D. Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University Bio on Page 166
Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University 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, Eco- nomic and Political Change and Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends . He also serves as president of the Board of Alliance San Diego, a community empowerment organization. Recognized for his many contri- butions to Chicano/a studies, he was inducted into the Stanford Alumni Multicultural Hall of Fame. CHAPTER 1 R ichard G riswold del C astillo , P h .D. Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University The first in his family to go to college, Griswold del Castillo attended UC Berkley and UCLA. His books include The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict (1990 ), La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban South- west, 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 Chicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Social Justice (2008). CHAPTER 2 J immy P atiño , P h .D. Associate Professor, Department of Chicano & Latino Studies, University of Minnesota Holding a doctorate in history from UC 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. 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.
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