B.A.: University of Texas at El Paso M.A.: University of Texas at El Paso Ph.D.: University of California, San Diego     Email: garcia@history.ucsb.edu Phone: (805) 893-4074 Room: 1720 South Hall

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Twentieth century historian with expertise in mass immigration from Mexico; the development of immigrant communities such as El Paso; the “Mexican-American Generation” from the 1930s to the early 1960s; emergence of new leadership among the U.S. born generation; as well as the Chicano Movement Generation of the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 (Yale University Press, 1981).

Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona
(UC California Press, 1994).

Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano (Capra Press, 2005).

The Gospel of Cesar Chavez: My Faith In Action (edited volume, Sheed &
Ward, 2007).

Catolicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History (University of Texas Press, 2008).

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