Luis Valdez, Free Speech, and El Teatro in the Calendar Round: An Interview with Carlos Muñoz
by Angela Marino
[The scholar/activist Carlos Muñoz Jr. was a founding editor of Latin American Perspectives. In the political science department at Cal State Los Angeles he was a student of Donald Bray, a fellow founding editor. When he was arrested in 1968 for his leadership in the walkouts of Los Angeles high school students, his lecture notes from Bray’s classes were confiscated. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate University and became a leader in the field of ethnic studies, first as the founding chair of the first Chicana/Chicano studies department in the United States at Cal State Los Angeles and then, after teaching comparative culture at the University of California at Irvine, as a member of the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he became chair of the Chicano studies program in the Ethnic Studies Department. His book Youth, Identity, and Power: The Chicano Movement (1989) won the Gustavo Myers Book Award for “outstanding scholarship in the study of human rights in the United States.” He has been the recipient of many awards for his scholarship and activism, including in 2008 being honored as among “Americans Who Tell the Truth.” Recently retired after 44 years in education, he is currently working on several books, including Decolonizing America: The Struggle for a Multiracial Democracy and the autobiography Victory Is in the Struggle.]
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