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Edward J. Escobar, Associate Professor |
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Ph.D., University of California, Riverside |
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Contact Information: |
Edward J. Escobar
Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
P.O. Box : 3502
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-3502 |
Office: Rm. 6656, Lattie Coor Bldg., ASU
Tel: (480) 965-8557
Fax: (480) 965-7165
E-mail: Edward.Escobar@asu.edu
Office Hours: Tue, Thu: 8:30-10:00 AM, Tue: 1:30-2:30 PM or by appt. |
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| Research and Teaching Interests: |
| Professor Escobar is the founding chair of the Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o studies. His scholarly interests are in the areas of the Chicano experience and twentieth century United States history. His most recent book Race, Police, and the Making of Political Identity , studies the relationship between the Los Angeles Police Department and Mexican Americans during the period 1900-1945. His current research project will extend this same area of study through the Rampart Scandal and is tentatively entitled “Drawing the Thin Blue Line: LAPD-Chicana/o Relations since World War II. His teaching interests in history coincide with his research, teaching courses such as Race and the American Criminal Justice System, the Sixties, Mexican American History since 1900, and Introduction to Chicana/o Studies. He has won the Manuel Servín award for distinguished service to the ASU Chicana/o community. |
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| Publications Include: |
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Bloody Christmas and the Irony of Police Professionalism: The Los Angeles Police Department, Mexican Americans, and Police Reform in the 1950s,” Pacific Historical Review, (May 2003).
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Race, Police and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945. Berkeley : University of California Press, (1999)
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"Zoot Suiters and Cops: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department During World War II" in The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II edited by Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (1996).
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"The Dialectics of Repression: The Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicano Movement, 1968-1971,” Journal of American History (March 1993).
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Forging a Community: The Latino Experience in Northwest Indiana, 1919-1975 , co-edited with James B. Lane . Chicago : Cattails Press, (1987).
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| Courses Taught: |
- CCS 101 - Introduction to Chicana/o Studies
- CCS 300 - Chicana/o Culture and Society
- HST 332 - Mexican American History since 1900
- CCS 394 - Race and Criminal Justice
- CCS 498 - Proseminar on the Chicano Movement
- HST 110 - United States History, 1877-Present
- HST 300 - Historical Inquiry: The Sixties
- HST 394 - Chicano Cultural History
- HST 591 - Graduate Research Seminar: Post-World War II American Social Movements
- HST 498 - Social Movements of the 1960s
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| Professional Activity: |
- Organization of American Historians
- National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (Executive Committee Member, 1997-98)
- Arizona Association for Chicanos in Higher Education
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