Juan Gómez-Quiñones
{{Short description|American historian (1940–2020)}}
Juan Gómez-Quiñones (January 28, 1940 – November 11, 2020) was an American historian, professor of history, poet, and activist.{{cite news |url=https://history.ucla.edu/news/professor-emeritus-juan-g%C3%B3mez-qui%C3%B1ones-passed-away |title=Professor Emeritus Juan Gómez-Quiñones Passed Away November 12, 2020 |website=University of California |access-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-date=December 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202132607/https://history.ucla.edu/news/professor-emeritus-juan-g%C3%B3mez-qui%C3%B1ones-passed-away |url-status=dead }} He was best known for his work in the field of Chicana/o history. As a co-editor of the Plan de Santa Bárbara, an educational manifesto for the implementation of Chicano studies programs in universities nationwide, he was an influential figure in the development of the field.{{cite web
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Youth and education
Gómez-Quiñones was born in the city of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, and raised in East Los Angeles. He graduated from Cantwell Sacred Heart of Mary School, a Catholic high school in Montebello, California. He subsequently attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning his bachelor's degree in literature, his Master of Arts in Latin American studies, and his doctorate of philosophy in history. His 1972 dissertation was titled "Social Change and Intellectual Discontent: The Growth of Mexican Nationalism, 1890-1911."
He was a founding co-editor of Aztlán, a journal of Chicano studies.
He began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969 and has held his post for over forty years. He has served as the director of UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, as well as on the board of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Honors and awards
- (1966–1968) Foreign Area Fellow. Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies
- (1990) Scholar of the Year Award from the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies{{cite web
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- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Bibliography
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =Sembradores, Ricaŕdo Flores Magon y el Partido Liberal Mexicano: a eulogy and critique
| publisher =Aztlán Publications
| year =1973
| location =Los Angeles
| lccn = 74177297
| oclc = 1033482}}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =5th and Grande vista : poems, 1960-1973
| publisher =Editorial Mensaje
| year =1974
| location =Staten Island
| lccn = 75512573
| oclc = 1660435
| isbn = 8439928505}}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| others=Roberto Gómez Ciriza (trans.)
| title =Las ideas políticas de Ricardo Flores Magón
| publisher =Ediciones Era
| year =1977
| location =México
}}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =Mexican students por la raza: the Chicano student movement in southern California, 1967-1977
| publisher =Editorial La Causa
| year =1978
| location =Santa Bárbara
}}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =Porfirio Díaz, los intelectuales y la revolución
| publisher =El Caballito
| year =1981
| location =México
| isbn =968-6011-11-0}}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =Development of the Mexican working class north of the Rio Bravo : work and culture among laborers and artisans, 1600-1900
| publisher =Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, University of California, Los Angeles
| year =1982
| location =Los Angeles
| isbn =0-89551-055-3}}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =Chicano politics: reality and promise, 1940-1990
| publisher =University of New Mexico Press
| year =1990
| location =Albuquerque
| isbn =0-8263-1204-7 }}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =Roots of Chicano politics, 1600-1940
| publisher =University of New Mexico Press
| year =1994
| location =Albuquerque
| isbn =0-8263-1471-6}}
- {{cite book
| last =Gómez-Quiñones
| first =Juan
| title =Mexican American labor, 1790-1990
| publisher =University of New Mexico Press
| year =1994
| location =Albuquerque
| isbn =0-585-25942-9 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/juan-g%C3%B3mez-qui%C3%B1ones Juan Gomez-Quinones] UCLA faculty profile
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:Mexican emigrants to the United States
Category:American academics of Mexican descent
Category:People from Chihuahua (state)
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Category:People from East Los Angeles, California
Category:People from Montebello, California