About Me
I'm Tomás Summers Sandoval and this is my blog. I'm an asociate professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and History at Pomona College, the author of Latinos at the Golden Gate(2013), and a generally nice guy. You can learn more about me at my main website.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Trivial Presidential Trivia
The life of an untenured professor is a busy one, not to mention rarely free from the relentless pressure that you should be doing something “productive” with your time. For this Chicano, that means doing things other than updating this … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, History
Tagged History, history trivia, presidential history, presidential trivia, us history, us presidency, us presidents
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Letter from Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego
This letter began circulating this past weekend. Dear Chancellor Fox: As a Full Professor who has spent her whole 20-year career at UCSD, as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department, and as a woman faculty of color who has faced … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Education
Tagged campus climate, ethnic studies, hate crime, noose, uc san diego racism, ucsd, ucsd hate crime
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Racial crisis at the University of California
If you haven’t heard the recent news from the University of California, you can read about some of it here, here, and here. This week, on March 4th, educational access activists across the state have called for a “Day of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, News
Tagged cal state, california, chicana, Chicano, educatino protests, educational equity, hate crime uc san diego, higher education, justice, latina, latino, mar 4 protests, march 4th, uc, uc protests
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