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Armando Navarro Professor INTS 4046 (951) 827-5131 armando.navarro@ucr.edu |
Armando Navarro is a political scientist and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. He received his AA degree in political science from Chaffey Community College in 1968; BA in political science from Claremont Mckenna College in 1970; and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Riverside in 1974. His areas of teaching specialization include Mexicano/Latino Politics, social movements, immigration, United States politics, and contemporary issues.
Professor Navarro is the author of several books that include Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas, published by the University of Texas Press (1995); The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control, published by the University of Wisconsin Press (1998); La Raza Unida Party: A Chicano Challenge to the U.S. Two-Party Dictatorship, published by Temple University Press (2000); Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlán: Struggles and Change, published by Alta Mira Press (2005); and The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement, published by Alta Mira Press (2008).
He is currently working on two books. The sixth book is tentatively titled What Needs To Be Done? Strategic Scenarios for Mexicano/Latino Politics in the 21st Century in the Building of a New Movement, scheduled for completion Summer 2010. His seventh book is tentatively titled, Mexico: The Rise of a World Power in the 21st Century, scheduled for completion 2011.
Professor Navarro has also authored numerous articles, book chapters, monographs, and reports. The topics have included Chicano/Latino politics, Chicano political history, redistricting, community organizing, immigration, education, and the Los Angeles Eruption (riots) of 1992.
Professor Navarro has a history of organic intellectualism. He has been an organizer and scholar activist for some forty-two years, dealing with a myriad of local, state, national, and international social justice, human rights, and social change related issues that have affected principally Mexicanos/Latinos. In 1992 he was hired by the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside. During this time he founded and was the first director of the UC Riverside based Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center; served as Department Chair; and has continued incessantly his scholarship activism.
Internationally he has led, facilitated, and participated in numerous delegations to Latin America, specifically Cuba, Mexico, Central America, and Venezuela. During his travels, he has met with world leaders and dignitaries.
As a result of his scholarship and advocacy activism, Professor Navarro has gained widespread recognition both domestically and internationally.