Albert Camarillo presents "Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality"
Schedule
Wed Sep 25 2024 at 05:30 pm
Location
130 E Napa St, Sonoma, CA, United States, California 95476 | Sonoma, CA
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Stanford professor and founder of Chicano studies, Albert Camarillo, presents his memoir “Compton in My Soul – A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality” at Readers’ Books on Wednesday, September 25th for a 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. reading. This memoir is both a personal and political history of Compton. Intimate details of Camarillo’s family life are woven together with the political movements of the time. A holistic picture is formed of the author and why he committed himself to his academic mission to expand the standard narrative of U.S. history to include Chicano folks like himself.
Al Camarillo is the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor and Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Camarillo’s storied career at Stanford began in 1975, when he was appointed in the Department of History. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the field of Mexican American history and Chicano studies (he is the first Mexican American in the nation’s history to receive a Ph.D. in U.S. history with a specialization in Chicano History). He has published eight books and dozens of articles on the history of Mexican Americans and other communities of color. He is the only faculty member in the history of Stanford to receive six of the highest awards for excellence in teaching and service to the university. Camarillo is the past president of the Organization of American Historian, the nation’s largest membership association for historians of the United States and past president of the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch. His memoir, Compton in My Soul –A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality, was
published by Stanford University Press in July 2024.
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