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“Desiring Chicanismo: Gay Chicano Art and the Intersection of Race and Sexuality,” analyzes the work of three contemporary gay Chicanx/Latinx artists and the ways that these artists mediate on race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender to map new ways of responding to xenophobia, ra…

The Chicana/o Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in urban Southern California has been extensively researched and documented, yet very little attention has been given to the contributions of Chicanas/os in California’s rural Central Valley. The Valley’s historically oppress…

This dissertation presents a qualitative content analysis of the U.S. District Court-District of Arizona Transcripts of Proceedings of Bench Trial (González et al. v. Douglas et al., 2017), the constitutional challenge to Arizona’s anti-Mexican American Studies law A.R.S. §15-11…