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SPECIALIZATION: History of Mexicans in the United States; U.S. Working Class History
EDUCATION: University of Texas, Ph.D., 1983 (Dissertation Advisors: Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Ricardo Romo)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1992. Associate Professor, History Department, University of Houston-University Park Campus.
1985-92. Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Houston-University Park Campus.
1981-85. Coordinator of Research and Development and Program Director, Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California at Los Angeles.
1977-81. Director, Ethnic Studies Center, Texas A&I University, Kingsville.
1976-77. Visiting Lecturer, Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies University of Texas, San Antonio.
HONORS AND AWARDS
1995 Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers.
1994 H. L. Mitchell (Book) Award in Southern Working Class History, The Southern Historical Association.
1994 Faculty Development Summer Grant, College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication, University of Houston.
1994 T. R. Fehrenbach (Book) Award in Texas History, Texas Historical Commission.
1994 College Faculty Development Leave, Spring.
1993 Bolton-Kinnaird (Article) Award in Borderlands History, Western History Association.
1993 Research Grant, University of Houston, Office of Sponsored Programs.
1992 appointment to the State Board of Review, Texas Historical Commission. Appointed to a two-year term. Elected Vice Chair and completed term in 1994.
1987 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California President's Minority Fellowship Program.
1987 Participant in the Summer Seminar on Latino Research Issues, co-sponsored by the Inter-University Consortium and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1986 Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation.
1986 Summer Research Grant, University of Houston Research Initiation Grant, University of Houston.
1981 Participant in the Summer Scholarship Program at the Colegio de México, Mexico City, the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Houston.
1973 Ford Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.
1994 T. R. Fehrenbach (Book) Award in Texas History, Texas Historical Commission. The award program, "one of the most prestigious writing competitions in the state", recognizes "outstanding original research, study, and publication in the field of Texas history".
1994 H. L. Mitchell (Book) Award in Southern Working Class History, The Southern Historical Association. The annual award was given for the first time in 1994 and recognizes "distinguished books on the history of the southern working class."
Co-editor (With Dr. Tatcho Mindiola), Chicano Discourse; Selected Conference Proceedings of the National Association for Chicano Studies. Houston: A NACS Publication, Mexican American Studies Program, 1992.
El Movimiento Obrero Mexicano en el Sur de Texas, 1900-1920. México, D.F.: Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1986.
Forthcoming:
Mexican Workers and the Politics of Job Opportunity in Texas During the Second World War. I am currently preparing a book-length study on the Mexican Worker in Texas during the second World War. With fellowship support from the National Endowment for the Humanities I expect to complete most of the remaining research and a book-length draft by Summer, 1996.
The study examines the Mexican worker in Texas within the context of Mexico-U.S. relations during the second World War. It seeks to demonstrate that discrimination in Texas high-wage firms undermined job opportunities and led Mexico to intercede with challenges against the U.S.'s good neighbor policy. This, in turn, encouraged U.S. agencies to address discrimination and create an unprecedented political opening for Mexican American civil rights and labor leaders to become major players in domestic politics.
Recent Texas Scholarship on Mexican American History. I am the lead editor (other editors are Drs. Rodolfo Rocha and Cynthia Orozco) of an anthology containing selected papers presented at the 1991 Mexicans in Texas History Conference held in San Antonio. The conference was sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association, the University of Texas Institute of Texas Cultures at San Antonio, and the University of Texas Center for Mexican American Studies. The publication will be sponsored by the Center as a University of Texas imprint. Will submit final draft of the manuscript in March, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
"The Failed Promise of Wartime Opportunity for Mexicans in the Texas Oil Industry," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 95 (January 1992).
1993 Bolton-Kinnaird (Article) Award in Borderlands History ("for the best article published in the previous calendar year in any scholarly journal or edited volume on any phase of the history of the Spanish Borderlands"), Western History Association.
Reviews: La Red, July 1983; Lector, 1984, 1985 (four reviews); Pacific Historical Quarterly, 1985; Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1992.
Co-author (with Roberto Calderón), "A Tribute to Emma Tenayuca and Manuela Solís Sager," in Adelaida R. del Castillo, ed., Between Borders; Essays on Mexicana-Chicana History. Encino, California: Floricanto Press, 1989.
Co-author (with Roberto Calderón), "Manuela Solís Sager and Emma Tenayuca: A Tribute," in Teresa Córdova, et. al., eds., Chicana Voices; Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender. Austin: CMAS Publications, 1985.
"Research Advance Report No. 1," El Mirlo: A National Chicano Studies Newsletter Vol. 11, No. 1 (Fall 1983), Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA.
"Notes on the Second Edition of Occupied America," in Occupied America: A Chicano History Symposium. Houston: The Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Houston, 1981.
"Sara Estela Ramirez: Una Rosa Roja en el Movimiento," in Magdalena Mora and Adelaida R. del Castillo, eds., Mexican Women in the United States: Struggles Past and Present. Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, UCLA, 1980.
"Sindicalismo Socialista de los Chicanos en Texas, 1900-1920," in Luis Arroyo and Juan Gómez-Quiñones, eds., Orígenes del Movimiento Obrero Chicano. México, D.F.: La Serie Popular ERA, No. 64, 1978.
"Las Escuelitas: A Texas-Mexican Search for Educational Excellence," in published proceedings of the South Texas Head Start Bilingual-Bicultural Conference, Los Tejanos: Children of Two Cultures. Edinburg: South Texas Regional Training Office, 1978.
"Sara Estela Ramirez: A Note on Research in Progress," in Hembra: Hermanas en Movimiento Brotando Raíces de Aztlán. Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, 1976.
"Chicano Socialist Labor Activity in Texas, 1900-1920," Aztlán: Chicano Journal of the Social Sciences and the Arts 6 (Summer 1975, Special Issue on Labor History).
Forthcoming:
"Labor Formation, Identity, and Self-Organization, The Mexican Working Class in Texas, 1900-1945." The essay will appear in an anthology edited by John Hart, University of Houston. The anthology will be published in English by a U.S. press and in Spanish by a Mexico press.
STANDARD COURSES
Mexican American History up to 1910; Mexican American History Since 1910; U.S. Working Class History, 1877-Present; Texas History, 19th and 20th Centuries.
INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS
My primary interest is in the binational history of the Mexican working class, particularly in the intersection of state (Mexico and United States) authority, ethnic identity, class conflict, ideological struggle, and self-organization.