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X-WR-CALNAME:Planting the Seeds of Latino Diversity on the Farm
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DESCRIPTION:Program video is available here.\n\nIf you were to leaf through
  the pages of Stanford Quad beginning in the 1890s through the mid-1960s\,
  you would have to look very closely to find the faces of students of colo
 r pictured among the many thousands of their white classmates. Since its o
 rigins\, Stanford—much to its credit—admitted Asian\, Native\, African
  American\, and Latino students\, but their numbers were infinitesimally s
 mall. The racial and ethnic diversity of Stanford's student body began to 
 change\, however\, when the first small cohort of students of color were a
 dmitted in the late 1960s. During the 1970s and 1980s\, the university's c
 ommitment to diversifying its student body helped foster the growth of vib
 rant communities of color on campus\, forever changing the university’s 
 student demographics and the university in general.\n\nStanford historian 
 Al Camarillo will share personal stories about how one of these groups\, C
 hicanas-os/Latinas-os\, contributed to changing the campus culturally and 
 academically. \n\nCamarillo's presentation will draw on his recently publi
 shed book\, Compton in My Soul - A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality (Sta
 nford University Press)\, to recount stories of how a "Mexican kid" from C
 ompton landed a faculty position at Stanford in 1975 and devoted decades t
 o helping the university to become a more racially/ethnically inclusive in
 stitution. He will reflect on his 43-year career at the university from mu
 ltiple perspectives – teacher/mentor\, resident fellow in undergraduate 
 dorms\, associate dean for undergraduate studies\, director of research ce
 nters\, and special assistant to the provost for faculty diversity. He wil
 l also frame his comments by referencing Frank Sotomayor’s (MA\, Class o
 f ’67) book\, The Dawning of Diversity – How Chicanos Helped Change St
 anford University (West by Southwest Press\, 2022). Sotomayor’s book rec
 ounts\, for the first time\, the experiences of Mexican Americans who ente
 red the Farm in fall of 1969 and those who followed in their footsteps in 
 subsequent decades. \n\n \n\nAl Camarillo is the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial P
 rofessor and Professor of American History\, Emeritus. He is widely regard
 ed as one of the founders of the field of Mexican American history and Chi
 cano studies (he is the first Mexican American in the nation’s history t
 o receive a Ph.D. in U.S. history with a specialization in Chicano history
 ). He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in history from UCLA. He has published a
 nd edited/co-edited eight books and dozens of articles on the history of M
 exican Americans and other communities of color. He is the only faculty me
 mber in the history of Stanford to receive six of the highest awards for e
 xcellence in teaching and service to the university. Camarillo is the past
  president of the Organization of American Historians\, the nation's large
 st membership association for historians of the United States\, and former
  president of the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch.\n\
 nThis program is co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center.\nCopies o
 f the books\, Compton in My Soul - A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality an
 d The Dawning of Diversity – How Chicanos Helped Change Stanford Univers
 ity\, will be available for purchase at the event.\n\nRegister to attend i
 n-person\nRegister to attend online
GEO:37.424631;-122.172061
LOCATION:Humanities Center\, Levinthal Hall
SUMMARY:Planting the Seeds of Latino Diversity on the Farm
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/planting-the-seeds-of-latin
 o-diversity-on-the-farm
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