Background
Garcia, Juan Ramon was born on July 27, 1947 in Sebastian, Texas, United States. Son of Juan and Maria de la Luz (Perez-Hernandez) Garcia.
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Early in this century, a few Mexican migrants began streaming northward into the Midwest, but by 1914--in response to the war in Europe and a booming U.S. economy--the stream had become a flood. Barely a generation later, this so-called Immigrant Generation of Mexicans was displaced and returned to the U.S. Southwest or to Mexico. Drawing on both published works and archival materials, this new study considers the many factors that affected the process of immigration as well as the development of communities in the region. These include the internal forces of religion, ethnic identity, and a sense of nationalism, as well as external influences such as economic factors, discrimination, and the vagaries of U.S.-Mexico relations. Here is a book that persuasively challenges many prevailing assumptions about Mexican people and the communities they established in the Midwest. The author notes the commonalities and differences between Mexicans in that region and their compadres who settled elsewhere. He further demonstrates that although Mexicans in the Midwest maintained a strong sense of cultural identity, they were quick to adopt the consumer culture and other elements of U.S. life that met their needs. Focusing on a people, place, and time rarely covered before now, this wide-ranging work will be welcomed by scholars and students of history, sociology, and Chicano studies. General readers interested in ethnic issues and the multicultural fabric of American society will find here a window to the past as well as new perspectives for understanding the present and the future.
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Although Chicano scholarship has grown significantly, research on women of Mexican descent remains sparse. This issue of Perspectives is devoted to Mexican American women, and examines the reasons of the lack of published scholarship as well as new directions and paradigms for research. This compilation of articles and essays on Chicanas reflects the continuing effort to provide a corrective to the traditional works and models that have obscured the roles and experiences of women. Readers will find them thoughtful, instructive, and provocative. Contents Beyond Machismo, La Familia, and Ladies Auxiliaries: A Historiography of Mexican-Origin Women's Participation in Voluntary Associations and Politics in the United States, 1870-1990, by Cynthia E. Orozco Beyond the Adelita Image: Women Scholars in the National Association for Chicano Studies, 1972-1992, by Gilberto Garc¡a "Faithful Hard-Working Mexican Hands": Mexicana Workers During the Great Depression, by Yolanda Ch vez Leyva Midwestern Mexican American Women and the Struggle for Gender Equality: A Historical Overview, 1920s-1960s, by Richard Santill Cooperative Re/Weavings: Astistic Expression and the Economic Development in a Northern New Mexican Village, by Mar¡a Ochoa Deconstructing the Corrido Hero: Caballero and Its Gendered Critique of Nationalist Discourse, by Mar¡a Cotera The Rearguarders Thesis and Latina Elites: A Case Study, by Isidro D. Ortiz
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Garcia, Juan Ramon was born on July 27, 1947 in Sebastian, Texas, United States. Son of Juan and Maria de la Luz (Perez-Hernandez) Garcia.
Bachelor, DePaul University, 1971; Master of Arts, DePaul University, 1979; Master of Arts, U. Notre Dame, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Notre Dame, 1977.
From assistant to associate professor, University of Michigan, Flint, 1975-1981;
associate professor, U. Arizona, Tucson, since 1981;
associate dean instruction College Social and Behavioral Sciences, U. Arizona, Tucson, since 1994. Director Mexico American studies University of Michigan, Flint, 1975-1981, chairman affirmative action committee 1979-1981, chairman student affairs and concerns committee 1978-1981. Director U. Arizona Teaching Center, 1990-1994.
Consultant National Institute Education Women and Minorities division, Washington, 1978-1981, National Education Association Program Development division, Washington, 1979-1982. History consultant, host television Station KUAT, 1989. History consultant Los Mineros, 1991.
Advisory board Tucson Public Library. Writers the Purple Sage;liaison American with Disabilities Act., since 1993. Presenter in field.
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Chairman State Bilingual Commission, Michigan, 1976-1980. Rockefeller Foundation rev.panel S.W. Hispanic Research Institute, 1989. Library, archives public records committee member State of Arizona, since 1988.
Member National Association for Chicano Studies (Rocky Mountain representative, executive coordinator committee, conference site committee member, chairman editorial committee 1983-1988), Western Social Science Association (coordinator Chicano studies section 1983).
Married Rosalind Sigworth, October 18, 1992. Children: Mariel Shannon, Michelle Nocole, Alison Marissa.