Jose M. Lopez is a Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at California
State University, Long Beach. He received his Ph.D. from Claremont
Graduate School in 1982. Professor Lopez has been an active participant
in campus efforts to introduce multicultural dimensions into the curriculum.
He served on the President's multicultural task force that wrote an assessment
of these issues for CSULB and coordinated a program that brought leading
academics scholars to the campus for a lecture series. His publications
include:
1995. "Manifestations of Class Pathologies in Contemporary Gang Literature,"
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, University of California, Irvine (Vol.
11. No. 2: 273-284).
April 19, 1995. "In Search of 'Otherness': The Case of Prop. 187," in conference
proceedings Human Rights Violations & Refugees Plight: National and
International Dimensions, California State University, Long Beach (pp.
56-68).
September 1992. "CHICANO URBAN YOUTH GANGS: A Critical Analysis of a Social
Problem,"(with Alfredo Mirande) Latino Studies Journal, Chicago: DePaul
University (Vol. III, Issue III: 15-28).
1992. "A Gang of Angels" in City of Angels (eds.) Gerry Riposa and Carolyn
Dersch. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
1991. "PROFILES IN VENGEANCE: A Quest for the Chicano Gang Worldview,"
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicans, University of California, Irvine (Vol.
7, No. 2: 319-329).
1991. "THE GANGS OF ORANGE COUNTY: A Critique and Synthesis of Social Policy,"
(with Alfredo Mirande) Aztlan-International Journal of Chicano Studies
Research, L.A.: Aztlan Publication, University of California, Los Angeles
(Vol. 19, No. 1: 125-146).
1990. "THREE CHIEFS AND THE LATINO COMMUNITY: A Study in Group Behavior,"
Latino Studies Journal, Chicago: DePaul University (Vol. I, Issue III:
24-38).
1969. Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education. El Plan de Santa
Barbara, editorial board member, La Causa Publisher Oakland, CA.
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