My major areas of scholarly and curricular expertise are in Chicano and U.S. literature and popular culture, urban studies (with a particular emphasis on Los Angeles cultural studies), and Southwest/Borderlands literature and expressive culture.
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Introduction: Los Angeles Studies and the Future of Urban Cultures (with George J. Sanchez), American Quarterly (2004)
This special issue of American Quarterly focuses on Los Angeles as an emblematic site through...
Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture (2000)
Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave rise to much of Chicano history...
Urban Latino Cultures: La vida latina en LA (with Michael J. Dear and Gustavo Leclerc) (1999)
Although online full text is not available, the Special Collections Department at Occidental College owns...