Anita Casavantes Bradford
Biographic Data
| ID | 693305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Casavantes Bradford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita Casavantes |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradford |
| SIGNATURE | BRADFORD A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9104-4575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Refugee Students and Parents as Drivers of Change in San Diego Schools
This article presents a case study of the Parent Student Resident Organization (PSRO), a diverse coalition of refugee students and parents in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood, and its role in advancing educational equity in San Diego Unified School District. In analyzing how the PSRO's intergenerational, feminist and cultural humility inspired organizing model empowered diverse refugee families to leverage California's Local Control Funding …
Roundtable
Ten individuals who played key roles in formalizing veterans studies at American universities or within professional associations reflect on the field’s origins, key developments, institutional support, social and historical influences, and its evolution over time. Their responses, condensed and edited for clarity, elucidate the invisible, arduous, and complex labor involved in attempting to establish an academic discipline in 21st century Americ…
A Cultural Revolution
This essay reviews the following work:Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution. By Devyn Spence Benson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 297. $23.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822359623
Latinx Veterans, Outsider Patriotism and the Motives Behind Minoritized Military Service
For many Americans, the figure of the veteran—usually imagined as a straight, white, native-born cisgender male—embodies a profoundly resonant patriotic ideal. However, although the working class and veterans of color who make up the majority of the US Armed Forces’ enlisted ranks themselves generally acknowledge that a range of motives inspired the decision to enlist, the scholarship to date on veterans and patriotism, which focuses primarily on…
Toward a Critical Latinx Pedagogy
In this essay we discuss the shared vision for a critical Latinx pedagogy that has emerged from our five-year collaboration as professor and TA of a large undergraduate Latinx history course. We discuss specific classroom practices through which we seek to embrace, engage and empower diverse Latinx students; to provide non-Latinx students with a new appreciation of the centrality of Latinx experiences within U.S. history and an opportunity to ref…
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children
Since the late 1990s, a growing number of scholars in and outside Cuba have struggled to move beyond their own passionately held ideological convictions to make sense of the origins, purpose, and legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a semiclandestine effort by which approximately 14,000 Cuban children were sent alone to the United States during the revolution's tumultuous early years. The latest is Deborah Shnookal, who proposes to move beyond the Cold…
With the Utmost Practical Speed”
From December 1956 to May 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made unprecedented use of the parole statute of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in order to rapidly admit 38,000 Hungarian refugees to the United States. Characterizing this decision as a reactive effort to repair strained relationships with Western European allies following the Soviet invasion of Budapest, previous scholarship has correctly recognized that Eisenhower’s actions “stretche…
Raúl Necochea López. A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru
Peru, Raúl Necochea López informs his readers by way of introduction, is currently the most unjust nation in the Americas in terms of its provision of healthcare. Moreover, Peru’s maternal mortality rates are among the worst in the Americas, in competition for last place with those of much poorer Bolivia, Guatemala, and Haiti. The disconnect between the nation’s impressive recent macroeconomic growth and the precarious health of its families is t…
“La Niña Adorada del Mundo Socialista
Between 1959 and 1962, children played a highly visible role in the dramatic realignment of revolutionary Cuba’s diplomatic relations. This article demonstrates that Fidel Castro’s government consistently deployed discourses and images of childhood as well as actual children within a broader campaign to liberate themselves from U.S. domination even as it sought to strengthen ties between Cuba, the U.S.S.R. and the socialist world. At the same tim…
Revolution Is for the Children
Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that “the revolution is for the children.” Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of “Castro-communism.” This analysis of the pivotal years between the Revolution's triumph and the 1962 Missile Crisis uncovers how and when children were first pressed into political service by ideologi…
Toward a Critical Latinx Pedagogy
In this essay we discuss the shared vision for a critical Latinx pedagogy that has emerged from our five-year collaboration as professor and TA of a large undergraduate Latinx history course. We discuss specific classroom practices through which we seek to embrace, engage and empower diverse Latinx students; to provide non-Latinx students with a new appreciation of the centrality of Latinx experiences within U.S. history and an opportunity to ref…
Revolution Is for the Children
Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that “the revolution is for the children.” Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of “Castro-communism.” This analysis of the pivotal years between the Revolution's triumph and the 1962 Missile Crisis uncovers how and when children were first pressed into political service by ideologi…
“La Niña Adorada del Mundo Socialista
Between 1959 and 1962, children played a highly visible role in the dramatic realignment of revolutionary Cuba’s diplomatic relations. This article demonstrates that Fidel Castro’s government consistently deployed discourses and images of childhood as well as actual children within a broader campaign to liberate themselves from U.S. domination even as it sought to strengthen ties between Cuba, the U.S.S.R. and the socialist world. At the same tim…
Raúl Necochea López. A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru
Peru, Raúl Necochea López informs his readers by way of introduction, is currently the most unjust nation in the Americas in terms of its provision of healthcare. Moreover, Peru’s maternal mortality rates are among the worst in the Americas, in competition for last place with those of much poorer Bolivia, Guatemala, and Haiti. The disconnect between the nation’s impressive recent macroeconomic growth and the precarious health of its families is t…
With the Utmost Practical Speed”
From December 1956 to May 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made unprecedented use of the parole statute of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in order to rapidly admit 38,000 Hungarian refugees to the United States. Characterizing this decision as a reactive effort to repair strained relationships with Western European allies following the Soviet invasion of Budapest, previous scholarship has correctly recognized that Eisenhower’s actions “stretche…
Latinx Veterans, Outsider Patriotism and the Motives Behind Minoritized Military Service
For many Americans, the figure of the veteran—usually imagined as a straight, white, native-born cisgender male—embodies a profoundly resonant patriotic ideal. However, although the working class and veterans of color who make up the majority of the US Armed Forces’ enlisted ranks themselves generally acknowledge that a range of motives inspired the decision to enlist, the scholarship to date on veterans and patriotism, which focuses primarily on…
Toward a Critical Latinx Pedagogy
In this essay we discuss the shared vision for a critical Latinx pedagogy that has emerged from our five-year collaboration as professor and TA of a large undergraduate Latinx history course. We discuss specific classroom practices through which we seek to embrace, engage and empower diverse Latinx students; to provide non-Latinx students with a new appreciation of the centrality of Latinx experiences within U.S. history and an opportunity to ref…
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children
Since the late 1990s, a growing number of scholars in and outside Cuba have struggled to move beyond their own passionately held ideological convictions to make sense of the origins, purpose, and legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a semiclandestine effort by which approximately 14,000 Cuban children were sent alone to the United States during the revolution's tumultuous early years. The latest is Deborah Shnookal, who proposes to move beyond the Cold…
A Cultural Revolution
This essay reviews the following work:Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution. By Devyn Spence Benson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 297. $23.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822359623
Roundtable
Ten individuals who played key roles in formalizing veterans studies at American universities or within professional associations reflect on the field’s origins, key developments, institutional support, social and historical influences, and its evolution over time. Their responses, condensed and edited for clarity, elucidate the invisible, arduous, and complex labor involved in attempting to establish an academic discipline in 21st century Americ…
Refugee Students and Parents as Drivers of Change in San Diego Schools
This article presents a case study of the Parent Student Resident Organization (PSRO), a diverse coalition of refugee students and parents in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood, and its role in advancing educational equity in San Diego Unified School District. In analyzing how the PSRO's intergenerational, feminist and cultural humility inspired organizing model empowered diverse refugee families to leverage California's Local Control Funding …
Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · History (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works)