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Jonathan Gomez
Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies
San José State University
Education/Degree:
1 Sociology (University of California, Santa Barbara)
About
Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez is a faculty member in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Jose State University. He is a scholar and a poet, born and raised in the barrio of City Terrace in East LA. He earned his doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Department of Sociology with an emphasis in Black studies, by way of the University of California, Santa Cruz and East Los Angeles College.
Current Work
As a scholar of race, cultural expression, and urban social movements, Dr. Gomez is committed to the production of scholarship that examines race and space as important modalities in which oppression is both experienced and resisted. His current book manuscript, El Barrio Lindo: Chicanx Social Spaces in Forgotten Places of Postindustrial Los Angeles, contributes to this field by considering how hyper-policed yet underserved Chicanx communities develop and deploy culture to activate marginal physical spaces in the postindustrial city as sites for congregation and collective action.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Chicano/ Studies, expressive culture, race, Social movements, space