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| B.A.: |
University of Texas at El Paso |
| M.A.: |
University of Texas at El Paso |
| Ph.D.: |
University of California, San Diego |
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| Email: |
garcia@history.ucsb.edu |
| Phone: |
(805) 893-4074 |
| Room: |
1720 South Hall |
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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.
Research involves generational approaches, civil rights struggles, oral history, and even more recently Chicano Catholic history.
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).
A Dolores Huerta Reader (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008).
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