There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West,
but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over …

One of the most perilous pitfalls of constitutional criminal procedure scholarship is the
inexact treatment of race vis-à-vis the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. This imprecision …

Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the “feebleminded,”
justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable …

Background/Context To adapt to increasingly diverse classrooms, some school districts are
trying to offer additional curriculum that represents the diversity of their students. California …

explored similar phenomena in Black history (King & Womac, 2014; Woodson, 2016;
Zimmerman, 2002), while others have documented how Latinx histories are omitted (Foster …

This article focuses on unheralded actors and events. I have chosen to center its narrative
on the emergence of a civil rights movement among the Mexi-can colonias and barrios of …

The Bracero Program, 1942-1964 Page 423 World War II, 1941–1945.” Perspectives in
Mexican American Studies 2 : 115–142. Santillan, Richard. 2001.“Saving Private Jose …

In 1943, the Alex and Esther Bernal of Fullerton, California became the first known Mexican
American family in the United States to win in court against racially restrictive housing …

Abstract When the Los Angeles uprising took over my family's television set in 1992, my
young mind was overwhelmed by the stark representation of white victimhood and Black …

1919 A group of ethnic Mexican parents and community members appear before the Santa
Ana Unified School Board to protest the segregation of their children. The school board …