Matt Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | GARCIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Strikers of Coachella
Remembering Herbert Gutman's Work, Culture, and Society Fifty Years On
It has been some time since I read Herbert Gutman. My version of Work, Culture, and Society, a dog-eared, used copy that I bought in the early 1990s to prepare for graduate qualifying exams, had taken on a mustiness that sent me into a sneezing fit as soon as I reopened it. They say you never know as much as the day after those exams, and in this moment, I felt the wisdom of that observation. What I remembered was that Gutman had been the foundat…
Network Exploration of Interdistrict School Choice Over Time in a Mandatory Open Enrollment State
Background: Early studies of district-level outcomes of interdistrict school choice policies found changes in how districts interact with one another and changes in districts’ per-pupil expenditures. More recent studies suggest that wider social and political consequences may result from interdistrict choice policies. Purpose: In Colorado, interdistrict school choice participation increased from 4.64% participation in the 2003–2004 fiscal year to…
Lepore’s America, “Our America”
This AHR Roundtable features four short essays on Jill Lepore’s widely read synthesis of American history, These Truths: A History of the United States (2018). Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but. The driving force of her narrative is the struggle of those excluded from this magic circle—really, the majority of the country’s population—to extend those truths beyond their narrow core…
From the Jaws of Victory
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt Ga…
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972 – 2018)
Obituary| September 01 2019 Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972 – 2018) Matt Garcia Matt Garcia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2019) 16 (3): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7569740 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Matt Garcia; Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972 – 2018). Labor 1 September 2019; 16 (3): 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7569740 Download citation f…
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement
In September 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) held its first convention in Fresno, California, initiating a multiracial movement that would result in the creation of United Farm Workers (UFW) and the first contracts for farm workers in the state of California. Led by Cesar Chavez, the union contributed a number of innovations to the art of social protest, including the most successful consumer boycott in the history of the Unite…
Setting the Table
Final Thoughts on Food Studies
True to my expectations, the Journal of American History did an excellent job of identifying respondents to expand our knowledge of the field of food studies and occasionally engage me in debate.I appreciate the diversity of perspectives reflected in their thoughtful responses and the range of experiences they possess.I am also thankful that the JAH editors reached out to scholars who embrace interdisciplinary approaches and have taken up my chal…
Grounds for Dreaming
It is a good time to be a farm labor historian. The injustices of the past continue, but the activism of worker justice organizations in places such as Florida, North Carolina, Vermont, and Oregon have restored hope for the blossoming of a new farm worker movement and the fulfillment of the promise once possessed by the United Farm Workers. Historians have contributed to the push for solutions by investigating and interpreting past successes and …
They Saved the Crops
A Moveable Feast
When most people think of the United Farm Workers, two things come to mind: Cesar Chávez and the grape boycott. Regarding the former, Chávez distinguished himself as perhaps the best-known Mexican American labor and civil rights leader in the country through his advocacy for farm worker rights in California during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1970, the union he led forced growers to the bargaining table for the first farm labor contracts in the histor…
Social Movements, the Rise of Colorblind Conservativism, and What Comes Naturally
Last spring I spoke at a University of Oregon symposium commemorating the twenty-fi fth anniversary of the publication of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States. Emerging from the presentations was equal admiration for another book, Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally. In the presentation “Challenges to the Social Constructionist View of Race in the Post-Genomic Era,” for example, sociologist Catherine Lee used Pasc…
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights
Journal Article Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America Get access Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. By Vargas Zaragosa. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xvi + 375 pp. Illustrations, notes, index.) Matt Garcia Matt Garcia Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…
A World of Its Own
A World of Its Own
Journal Article A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970 Get access A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Cit rus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970. By Garcia Matt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xx + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Roberto Mario Salmón Roberto Mario Salmón University of Texas-…
A World of Its Own
Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today. As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in eastern Los Angeles County expanded during the early twentieth century, the agricultural industry there developed along segregated lines, pri…
Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932
Journal Article Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900–1932 Get access Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900–1932. By Garcia Juan R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. x + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Matt García Matt García University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 4, Winter 1997, Pages 570–571, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
They Saved the Crops
Social Movements, the Rise of Colorblind Conservativism, and What Comes Naturally
Last spring I spoke at a University of Oregon symposium commemorating the twenty-fi fth anniversary of the publication of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States. Emerging from the presentations was equal admiration for another book, Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally. In the presentation “Challenges to the Social Constructionist View of Race in the Post-Genomic Era,” for example, sociologist Catherine Lee used Pasc…
A World of Its Own
Setting the Table
Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932
Journal Article Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900–1932 Get access Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900–1932. By Garcia Juan R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. x + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Matt García Matt García University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 4, Winter 1997, Pages 570–571, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
A World of Its Own
Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today. As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in eastern Los Angeles County expanded during the early twentieth century, the agricultural industry there developed along segregated lines, pri…
A World of Its Own
Journal Article A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970 Get access A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Cit rus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970. By Garcia Matt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xx + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Roberto Mario Salmón Roberto Mario Salmón University of Texas-…
A World of Its Own
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights
Journal Article Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America Get access Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. By Vargas Zaragosa. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xvi + 375 pp. Illustrations, notes, index.) Matt Garcia Matt Garcia Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…
Social Movements, the Rise of Colorblind Conservativism, and What Comes Naturally
Last spring I spoke at a University of Oregon symposium commemorating the twenty-fi fth anniversary of the publication of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States. Emerging from the presentations was equal admiration for another book, Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally. In the presentation “Challenges to the Social Constructionist View of Race in the Post-Genomic Era,” for example, sociologist Catherine Lee used Pasc…
They Saved the Crops
A Moveable Feast
When most people think of the United Farm Workers, two things come to mind: Cesar Chávez and the grape boycott. Regarding the former, Chávez distinguished himself as perhaps the best-known Mexican American labor and civil rights leader in the country through his advocacy for farm worker rights in California during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1970, the union he led forced growers to the bargaining table for the first farm labor contracts in the histor…
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement
In September 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) held its first convention in Fresno, California, initiating a multiracial movement that would result in the creation of United Farm Workers (UFW) and the first contracts for farm workers in the state of California. Led by Cesar Chavez, the union contributed a number of innovations to the art of social protest, including the most successful consumer boycott in the history of the Unite…
Setting the Table
Final Thoughts on Food Studies
True to my expectations, the Journal of American History did an excellent job of identifying respondents to expand our knowledge of the field of food studies and occasionally engage me in debate.I appreciate the diversity of perspectives reflected in their thoughtful responses and the range of experiences they possess.I am also thankful that the JAH editors reached out to scholars who embrace interdisciplinary approaches and have taken up my chal…
Grounds for Dreaming
It is a good time to be a farm labor historian. The injustices of the past continue, but the activism of worker justice organizations in places such as Florida, North Carolina, Vermont, and Oregon have restored hope for the blossoming of a new farm worker movement and the fulfillment of the promise once possessed by the United Farm Workers. Historians have contributed to the push for solutions by investigating and interpreting past successes and …
From the Jaws of Victory
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt Ga…
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972 – 2018)
Obituary| September 01 2019 Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972 – 2018) Matt Garcia Matt Garcia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2019) 16 (3): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7569740 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Matt Garcia; Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972 – 2018). Labor 1 September 2019; 16 (3): 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7569740 Download citation f…
Lepore’s America, “Our America”
This AHR Roundtable features four short essays on Jill Lepore’s widely read synthesis of American history, These Truths: A History of the United States (2018). Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but. The driving force of her narrative is the struggle of those excluded from this magic circle—really, the majority of the country’s population—to extend those truths beyond their narrow core…
Network Exploration of Interdistrict School Choice Over Time in a Mandatory Open Enrollment State
Background: Early studies of district-level outcomes of interdistrict school choice policies found changes in how districts interact with one another and changes in districts’ per-pupil expenditures. More recent studies suggest that wider social and political consequences may result from interdistrict choice policies. Purpose: In Colorado, interdistrict school choice participation increased from 4.64% participation in the 2003–2004 fiscal year to…
Remembering Herbert Gutman's Work, Culture, and Society Fifty Years On
It has been some time since I read Herbert Gutman. My version of Work, Culture, and Society, a dog-eared, used copy that I bought in the early 1990s to prepare for graduate qualifying exams, had taken on a mustiness that sent me into a sneezing fit as soon as I reopened it. They say you never know as much as the day after those exams, and in this moment, I felt the wisdom of that observation. What I remembered was that Gutman had been the foundat…
The Strikers of Coachella
History (11 works) · Art (7 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Garcia (5 works) · History (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works)