Name: Jorge Mariscal
Professor, Literature; Director, Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1981
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 1975
Field of Expertise: Mariscal is a an expert on Spanish and Chicano/a literature; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish culture and Chicano history. He also studies Latinos in the U.S.
military (past and present) with a focus on the Chicano
Movement of the 1960s.
Region of Interest: Mexico, Spain, U.S.
Media Interview Topics: Mariscal can provide commentary on Latinos
in the U.S. military today, history of Latinos in U.S. wars with focus on the Viet Nam
war period, and contemporary issues affecting Latino communities.
Selected Publications:
"Bartolomé de las Casas on Imperial Ethics and the Use of Force." Reason and Its Other in Early Modernity (Spalin/Italy 1500-1700) . Ed. David Castillo and Massimo Lollini. Minneapolis : Hispanic Issues. 2006.
“Homeland Security, Militarism, and the Future of Latinos and Latinas in the United States .” Radical History Review . 2006.
Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975. University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
