An Interdisciplinary Historical Pathway:
A Presentation and Discussion of
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
Featured Speaker: George J. Sanchez
May 3, 2023
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1010
In-Person Event:
This event will not be a hybrid event or recorded.
Speaker Biography:
George J. Sánchez is the author of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy (University of California Press, 2021) and the award-winning book Becoming Mexican American (Oxford University Press, 1993). He is a Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. In 2020–2021, he was President of the Organization for American Historians.
This event is being organized and moderated by Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Departments of Chicano-Latino Studies and History, arosas1@uci.edu, and co-sponsored by UCI Illuminations and the Departments of Chicano-Latino Studies and History.