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"Challenging the Borders of Civic Engagement: Ethnic Studies and the Meaning of Community Democracy"
George Sanchez ,
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For further program information please contact: Victor Becerra Director, Community Outreach Partnership Center School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine vbecerra@uci.edu Linda Vo Chair, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine volt@uci.edu James Parker Graduate Student First Year Initiative, Coordinator - Division of Student Affairs University of California, Irvine parkerja@uci.edu |
George Sanchez is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-
1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2005), and recently published “’What’s Good for Boyle Heights is Good for the Jews’: Creating Multiracialism on the
Eastside During the 1950s,” American Quarterly 56:3 (September 2004). He is Past President of the American Studies Association
(2001-2002), and is one of the co-editors of the book series, American Crossroads: New Works in Ethnic Studies,
from the University of California Press. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Diversity and Democracy at USC.
He works on both historical and contemporary topics of race, gender, ethnicity, labor, and immigration, and is currently writing
a historical study of the ethnic interaction of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and Jews in the
Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California in the twentieth century. He is also co-editing, with Amy Koritz of Tulane
University, Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina, to be published by University of Michigan Press in 2008.
Vicki L. Ruiz is Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
She is the author of Cannery Women, Cannery Lives and From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 20th Century America. She and Virginia Sánchez Korrol recently co-edited the three-volume Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Her most recent collections include the fourth edition of Unequal Sisters in which she is sole editor and Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories, co-edited with John Chávez. A fellow of the Society of American Historians and past president of the Organization of American Historians, Ruiz is a member of the national advisory board for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Ruiz is also president of the American Studies Association.