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My name is Tomás Summers Sandoval. I'm Chicano from southern Californian, a GenXer, and a fan of the Dodgers and Elvis. I am a husband, a father of three, and in my spare time I'm an asociate professor of Chicana/o~Latina/o Studies and History at Pomona College.Twitter
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Cosmopolitan San Francisco in 1855
Beginning in 1849, the lure of gold made San Francisco into an “instant city,” and a cosmopolitan one at that, with more than half of its population born somewhere other than the United States. This quality almost certainly added to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged gold rush, History, multiculturalism, race, race classification, racial fitness, san francisco
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Scholar and Teacher Ronald Takaki (1939-2009)
Ron Takaki has passed away. He died Tuesday, May 26, 2009, at his home in Berkeley. If you don’t know who he was and what he contributed to the world of academia, there are ample ways for you to learn. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Education, History, Labor, News, Obituary
Tagged Academia, asian american studies, cal, ethnic studies, hawaii, History, justice, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, ron takaki, ronald takaki, UC Berkeley, university of california
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