José G. Villagrán
josegvillagran.bsky.social
José G. Villagrán
@josegvillagran.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies @ CSU Bakersfield. Interested in: farmworkers, labor, migration, political economy, Chicano/a history, and Los Spurs. #Puro956
Kern County Educators for Ethnic Studies are organizing a summer school here in Bakersfield that will be open to community members of all ages and based in principles of ethnic studies. Please donate if you can to help us get it started!!

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Donate to A Summer of learning, liberation, and joy, organized by Nancy Nancy
Help us Build a Summer of Liberation, Learning, and Joy! The Kern County… Nancy Nancy needs your support for A Summer of learning, liberation, and joy
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April 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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3 of her 4 siblings who are also U.S. citizens were also deported with parents after being stopped at CBP checkpoint en route to Houston for medical treatment.
What a tragedy.
March 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Enjoyed presenting new work that will be published as a co-authored book chapter with José Villagrán that will appear in the book “Politics of the Rio Grande Valley: An Insider's Perspective to Regional Politics”
March 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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New today: The Texas Observer has identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that regularly share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content on X. Three of the operators appear to live or have claimed to own property in Texas.
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Today we are excited to launch the Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands project website. If you are interested in Chicano/a Studies, oral history, women's organizing, and/or digital humanities, check out our project website ⬇️
Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Voices in the Borderlands
Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Voices is an oral history project that highlights the contributions of women’s organizing in Southern Texas Arizona.
chicanavoicesproject.uta.edu
November 14, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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💚the energy we need right now
New Zealand parliament's youngest member Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke performs a haka in protest of a controversial bill that would reinterpret an 184 year old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.
November 16, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Engaging and applying strategies that multiply transformative ruptures has always been the goal. But today, the importance of resistance, coalition building and racial realist frames in our collective work cannot be understated.
November 16, 2024 at 5:03 PM