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Matthew Garcia is Associate Professor of American Civilization, Ethnic Studies and History. He is Interim Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University, 2005-2006. Research interests include Chicano/Latino identity and community formation, race and ethnicity in the U.S, labor history, Latina/o education, American popular culture, and urban/suburbanization.

He is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2001) which won several awards inluding Best Book (co-winner, Oral History Association, 2003), John Hope Franklin Prize, Best Book in American Studies (American Studies Association, Honorable Mention, 2003), and Laura Romero Prize, Best First Book in American Studies, (American Studies Association, Honorable Mention, 2003). He recently co-edited Geographies of Latinidad: Mapping Latina/o Studies for the Twenty-First Century (with Angharad Valdivia and Marie Leger; forthcoming, Duke University Press).

Select articles include "The 'Chicano' Dance Hall: Remapping Public Space in Post-World War II Greater Los Angeles" in Sound Identities (1999), "Intercultural Relations and Popular Culture in the San Gabriel Valley: Padua Hills Theatre and El Monte's American Legion Stadium" in California Politics & Policy (1998), "'Memories of El Monte': Intercultural Dance Halls in Post-World War II Greater Los Angeles" in Generations of Youth (1998), "Chicana/o History in a Changing Discipline" in Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (1996), and "'Just Put on that Padua Hills' Smile": The Padua Hills Theatre and The Mexican Players, 1931-1974" in California History (1995).

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