Ernesto Chavez

Ernesto Chavez (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. Professor Chavez's research interests center on the Mexican American-Chicano/a past. His first bookm, Mi Raza Primero! (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and toon meer Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978, was published in 2002 and focused on the rise of the Chicano movement in this California city. At present, he is working on a biography of Mexicanborn silent film star Ramon Novarro, tentatively titled Crossing the Boundaries of Race, Religion, and Desire: The Life of ramon Novarro toon minder