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Miroslava Chavez-Garcia

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Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Born
Known forChicana/o History, Race & Gender, Immigration & the Borderlands, Juvenile Justice
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles, BA (1991), MA (1993), PhD (1998)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Miroslava Chávez-García is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies.[1] Chávez-García's research focuses on Chicana/o history, eugenics, gender, and juvenile justice.[2] Chávez-García has authored three books: Negotiating Conquest (Tucson, 2004),[3] States of Delinquency (Berkeley, 2012),[4] and Migrant Longing (Chapel Hill, 2018).[5] Her second work, States of Delinquency, was considered a groundbreaking text, describing California's eugenic program, which targeted young Mexican American and African American boys for irreversible sterilizations.[6]

Chávez-García was born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico to farm worker parents. They moved to San Jose, California when she was an infant.[7] She graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1986 and then received her B.A. (1991), M.A. (1993), and Ph.D. (1998), from the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

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  1. ^ "Biography". Feminist Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Miroslava Chavez Garcia". Department of History. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  3. ^ "Negotiating Conquest". University of Arizona Press. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  4. ^ "Eugenics in California". Center for Genetics and Society. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  5. ^ "EIHS Lecture". Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. University of Michigan. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  6. ^ Krisberg, Barry. "Review: States of Delinquency". Rutgers University. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  7. ^ "In Conversation with Miroslava Chávez-García". Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Retrieved November 25, 2020.