University of California, Santa Barbara
Post-Doc, Sociology
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David Gumaro García
I am currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC-Santa Barbara, working under the mentorship of George Lipsitz in the Department of Sociology. I earned my Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA.
My research and teaching cast a critical historical lens of analysis on Chicana/o, Latina/o schooling experiences and popular culture portrayals, emphasizing the pedagogical and epistemological significance of teatro, film, TV, and stand-up comedy.
My interdisciplinary postdoctoral project documents the evolution of the Chicano-Latino performance group Culture Clash as a vehicle to analyze knowledge production. I am particularly interested in how their critical race theater functions as a form of public revisionist history, asserting counternarratives, cultural resilience, and community resistance. I argue that their work broadens our understandings of the teaching and learning that takes place in commercial, popular, and counterhegemonic cultural productions around the social constructs of race, gender, class, language, and immigrant status.
The University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity has recognized my research with a citation as an Exemplary Diversity Scholar.
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