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Eric Avila
Judith Baca
Maylei Blackwell
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
David Hernandez
Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda
Reynaldo F. Macias
Maria Christina Pons
Roberto Chao Romero
Otto Santa Ana
Abel Jr. Valenzuela
 
   
  David M. Hernández : Assistant Professor , Chicano Studies
Contact information:
7373 Bunche , (310) 794-7037 , dhernandez@chavez.ucla.edu
 
Professional Experience
David Manuel Hernández received his B.A. in Business Economics from U.C. Santa Barbara and his M.A. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. He completed his doctorate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley in 2005, where he held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Smithsonian Institution. His dissertation, "Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship," examines the racial genealogy of immigrant detention in the United States. Hernández explores how escalations in immigrant detention have occurred episodically over the last century at the nexus of racial inequality, xenophobia, and the construction of national crises.
His other areas of interest include international migration and Chicana/o and Latina/o politics and social movements. Prior to joining the faculty in Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, Hernández taught courses in American Studies, La Raza Studies, and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at the University of New Mexico, San Francisco State University, U.C. Berkeley, and Dickinson College. He is currently a U.C. Office of the President postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and completing a book manuscript on immigrant detention. Hernández grew up in Cudahy and Whittier California.
 

Doctoral Dissertation:
"Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship." University of California, Berkeley: Comparative Ethnic Studies. 2005.

Selected Publications:
"Undue Process: Racial Genealogies of Immigrant Detention." In Constructing Boundaries/Crossing Borders: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration . Caroline B. Brettell, editor. Lexington Books [in press].

"Pursuant to Deportation: Latinas/os and Immigrant Detention" [under review].

"Ethnic Prophecies: A Review Essay on Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (2001) and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (2001)." Contemporary Sociology . Vol. 32. No. 4. July 2003. 418-426. Second author: Evelyn Nakano Glenn

"Latino Demographic Growth: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow?." A review essay of Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City (2000). American Quarterly , Vol. 54. No. 1. March 2002. 129-137.

"Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Latinos and Immigration Policy." Perspectives in Mexican American Studies . Published by the Mexican American Studies and Research Center. University of Arizona. Vol. 6. 1997. 80-95.

"The Latino March on Washington." Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States . Deena Gonzales and Suzanne Oboler, editors. Oxford University Press. 2005. 518-522.

Courses
Chicano Studies 10B, " Introduction to Chicana/Chicano Studies: Social Structure and Contemporary Conditions ." ( Winter 2009 )
Chicano Studies 89, " Honors Seminars Chicano 89, seminar 1: Honors Seminar for Chicana and Chicano Studies 10B, Lecture 1." ( Winter 2009 )
Chicano Studies 148, " Politics of Diversity: Race, Conflicts, and Coalitions ." ( Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008)
Chicano Studies 188-3, " Special Courses in Chicana and Chicano Studies Chicano 188, seminar 3: Coalition & Conflict: Urban Poverty , Migration, & Race in the U.S." ( Summer 2007 )
Chicano Studies 191-2, 191-4, " Variable Topics Research Seminars: Chicana and Chicano Studies Chicano Studies 191, seminar 2: Disposable People: U.S. Deportation and Repatriation Campaigns." (Winter 2009 , Spring 2008)
Chicano Studies 193, " Readings/Speaker Series Seminars: Chicana and Chicano Studies." (Summer 2008)
Chicano Studies M124, " From Latin America to U.S.: Immigration and Latino Identity." (Fall 2008, Winter 2008)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CHICANO 191-3: Great Wall Restoration
“The Great Wall” is painted on a half-mile concrete-retaining section of the Tujunga Wash in the San Fernando Valley. Together we will be working to restore “The Great Wall of Los Angeles” mural, a half-mile long monument and landmark visually recording the varied ethnographic histories found in California ranging from prehistoric times to the 1950s.
 
 
 
 
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FALL 'O9 GAYTINO!

WINTER 2010 SYMPOSIUM:

Sex y Corazon: Queer and Feminist Theory at the Vangaurd of the new Chicana/o Studies.


Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
In Celebration of The 15th
Anniversary/ Quinceañera of the UCLA César Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the 40th Anniversary of the Chicano Studies Research Center