Martha Menchaca
{{Short description|American anthropologist}}
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| name = Martha Menchaca
| image = Martha Menchaca 2022 Texas Book Festival.jpg
| image_caption = Menchaca at the 2022 Texas Book Festival
| education = Ph.D., Stanford University
| occupation = Academic
| known_for = U.S./Mexican culture, immigration studies, legal anthropology, ethnicity
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Martha Menchaca is an academic in the fields of social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history, legal anthropology, immigration, and Chicana/o Studies on the relationship between U.S. and Mexican culture. Menchaca is recognized for her research on immigration, naturalization, and birthright citizenship. She is currently a professor at the University of Texas, Austin in the Department of Anthropology.{{Cite web|title=Martha Menchaca|url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/faculty/mm487|website=The University of Texas at Austin|access-date=15 May 2020}}{{Cite book|last=Bedolla|first=Lisa García|title=Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles|url=https://archive.org/details/fluidborderslati00bedo_959|url-access=limited|publisher=University of California Press|year=2005|isbn=9780520938496|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fluidborderslati00bedo_959/page/n235 221]}}{{Cite book|last=Contreras|first=Sheila Marie|title=Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2009|isbn=9780292782525|pages=171}}
In 2019, Menchaca, along with professors Alberto A. Martinez, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Emilio Zamora, Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Fred Valdez, Jr., and John Moran Gonzalez, authored the [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1shthHO9689ekpc9ztEB9UDJClhnKTfUH/view Hispanic Equity Report], which demonstrated the violation of the equal employment opportunity clauses by UT Austin. Menchaca and others revealed how Hispanic Full Professors were paid approximately $25,342 less than White Full Professors, $10,647 less for Associate Professors, and $19,636 less for Assistant Professors while also receiving the lowest rates of promotion in the university, despite consistently being among the most published faculty.{{Cite web|title=New Academic Report Shows Discrimination Against Latino Professors in the University of Texas|url=https://belatina.com/hispanic-professor-discrimination-ut-austin/|date=10 January 2020|website=BE Latina}}{{Cite web|title=Latino faculty face 'gross' pay disparities at UT Austin|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Latino-professors-confront-grotesque-14948691.php|last=Tallet|first=Olivia P.|date=6 January 2020|website=Houston Chronicle}}
Publications
=Articles=
- "Anglo‐Saxon Ideologies in the 1920s‐1930s: Their Impact on the Segregation of Mexican Students in California." Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1990, 21(3) w/ Richard R. Valencia
- "Chicano Indianism: a historical account of racial repression in the United States." American Ethnologist, 1993, 20(3)
- "The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest, 1837 To 1970: Transforming Racial Ideology into Law." Cultural Dynamics, 2008, 20(3).
- "The Social Climate of the Birthright Movement in the United States." Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS, 2013, 12(2)
=Books=
- The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California (University of Texas Press, 1995)
- Recovering History, Constructing Race - The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans (University of Texas Press, 2002)
- Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants: A Texas History (University of Texas Press, 2011)
- The Politics of Dependency: U.S. Reliance on Mexican Oil and Farm Labor (University of Texas Press, 2016)
- The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality (University of Texas Press, 2022)
=Chapters=
- "Segregation, desegregation, and integration of Chicano students: old and new realities." In Chicano School Failure and Success: Past, Present, and Future. Richard R. Valencia, ed. Pp. 81-131. (Routledge, 2004) w/ Richard R. Valencia and Rubén Donato
- "Latinos and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans." In Companion to Latino Studies. Renato Rosaldo and Juan Flores, eds. Pp. 313-324. (Blackwell Press, 2007)
- "Early Racist Discourses: The Roots of Deficit Thinking." In The Evolution of Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice. Richard R. Valencia, ed. Pp. 13-40. (Routledge, 2012)
=Lectures=
- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8H1qK1o9fo Fronteras y Puentes: Understanding and Transforming Borders Through Social Science Research]" (The University of Texas-Pan American, 2012)
References
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Category:American academics of Mexican descent
Category:American writers of Mexican descent