Headshot of Dante Garcia in front of a waterfall

Biography

Education:

University of California, Irvine                 Winter 2022

  • Master of Arts, History


California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA

  • Bachelor of Arts                              Fall 2019
    • Major, History
    • Minor, Chicana/o Studies

Advisor: Dr. Ana Rosas

First Field: U.S. History
Second Field: Latin American History

Research Interests: 20th Century Chicana/o/x History, History of Popular Culture, Metropolitan History

Dissertation Proposal: Light Up the Halo!: Mexican Engagement with Orange County’s Baseball Culture in the Post-World War II Era

This dissertation will focus on exploring the relationship between ethnic Mexicans and the Los Angeles Angels baseball team in southern California during the second half of the twentieth century. Specifically, it will analyze how the northern Orange County ethnic Mexican residents and baseball enthusiasts perceived and interacted with the actions and influences of the Los Angeles Angels Baseball organization. This dissertation aims to illustrate how ethnic Mexicans' involvement in baseball culture challenged their social citizenship in southern California's conservative enclaves. Additionally, this analysis of Orange County baseball culture will delve into broader themes of immigration, segregation, resistance, and assimilation within ethnic Mexican communities. This work will address questions such as how the Angels organization has portrayed an image that upholds traditional standards of race, gender, and class in Orange County, and how this image has contributed to excluding ethnic Mexicans from the benefits of full social citizenship. Lastly, this study will examine how ethnic Mexicans have created a place for themselves in Orange County through their engagement with baseball culture.

Publications:

Garcia, Dante. Review of The Estrada Plot: How The FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped The Invasion of Mexico by Bill Mills. Journal of San Diego History 68, no 3&4. (Fall/Winter 2022): 282-284. https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/2023/april/fall-winter-2022.

Garcia, Dante. “The Mexican Revolution: Revolutionary Leaders & Working-Class Ideologies” The Toro Historical Review 7, no 1 (Spring 2019).https://journals.calstate.edu/tthr/issue/view/180.