Carlos Munoz, Jr., Professor Emeritus

Office: 536 Barrows
Email: cmjr@berkeley.edu
Phone: 642-9134
Office hours: Thursdays by appointment

I am currently working on two book projects. The first is tentatively titled Shattering the Myths: The Struggle for an Authentic Multiracial Democracy, and the second is my autobiography, tentatively titled Victory is in the Struggle: The Autobiography of a Scholar-Activist.

Education

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
B.A., California State University at Los Angeles
A.A., Los Angeles City College

Research interests

Social and Revolutionary Movements, African Presence in Mexico, U.S. Racial/Ethnic Politics

Courses

Undergraduate (Created and Taught)
ES 41AC - Social Protest Movements of the 1960s
ES 141 - Racial Politics in America
ES 190N - The Multiracial & Multicultural Roots of Mexican Culture (Travel Study)
CS 24 - The Chicano Civil Rights Movement (Freshman Seminar)
CS 70 - Latino/a Politics
CS 101 - Paradigms in Chicano Studies
CS 180 - Spain and Latino Identity (Travel Study)
Undergraduate (Taught, not Created)
CS 159 - Mexican Immigration
Graduate (Created and Taught)
ES 200 - Critical Terms and Issues in Comparative Ethnic Studies
ES 230 - Social Movement Theories

Courses in 2009-2010
Fall: ES 41AC - Social Protest Movements of the 1960s
CS 24 – The Chicano Civil Rights Movement (Freshman Seminar)
Spring: ES 190

Selected publications

(since retirement in 2000)
"Forward" in Elizebeth Berta-Avila, et. al. Marching Students: Chicana/o Identity and the Politics of Education, 1968 and the Present, University of Nevada Press, 2009

Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement, Rev. and Expanded Ed., Verso Press, 2007

"Forward" in David Bacon, Communities Without Borders, Cornell University Press, 2006

"Roberto 'Beto' Avila: MLB's First Latino Super Star" in La Prensa del Beisbol Latino, official publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) 2006

"The Chicano Movement" in Lee Stacy, ed., Encyclopedia of Mexico-U.S. Border Relations, Brown Partworks, 2002

"Ernesto Galarza" in Waldo Martin & Patricia Sullivan, eds., Civil Rights in the United States, Vol. I. Macmillan, 2000.

Honors & Awards

2007 The Pioneer Visionary Award by the National Black Student Leadership Development Conference
2005 Honored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education for educating others and inspiring them in the pursuit of their goals
2003 Honored as one of 12 civil rights activists who accomplished extraordinary deeds that changed the face of the nation and gave birth to the modern Civil Rights Movement by the Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture, Community Works, The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, and the Friends Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library
2001 Honored by the American Political Science Association for seminal scholarly contributions to the study of Mexican American and Latino Politics
1999 Scholar of the Year Award, National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies
1996 The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, & Rosa Parks Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1994-95 University of California Humanities Research Fellowship
1990 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for the book Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement