144 - Dr. Oliver A. Rosales, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley

December 15, 2024 00:58:02
144 - Dr. Oliver A. Rosales, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley
History of California Podcast
144 - Dr. Oliver A. Rosales, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley

Dec 15 2024 | 00:58:02

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Show Notes

Today, we have Dr. Oliver A. Rosales on the show. Dr. Rosales is a Professor of History and former Faculty Coordinator of the Social Justice Institute at Bakersfield College, earned a B.A. in History at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in History at California State University, Bakersfield, and a Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a former Visiting Faculty at the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program and Visiting Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is a contributor to The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century; Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth Century United States; The Journal of the West; and is author of Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press, 2024). He served on the Nominating Board of the Organization of American Historians and is Board Chair with California Humanities through 2024. At Bakersfield College, he teaches courses in Chicano/a, California, United States, and World history.

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