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Majority-Minority Cities in America: Perspectives on Latino-African American Relations in California
Albert Camarillo was born and raised in the South Central Los Angeles community of Compton. After attending the Compton public schools, he entered the University of California at Los Angeles as a freshman in 1966. He continued his education at UCLA in the Ph.D. program in U.S. History where he received his doctorate in 1975 and where his dissertation was nominated that year as one of the best Ph.D. theses in the nation in American history. Camarillo was appointed to the faculty in the Department of History at Stanford University in 1975, a position he still holds. He is currently the director of the newly established Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, one of the nation's first research and teaching programs to provide domestic and international comparative perspectives on the study of race and ethnicity.
He has published six books and over a dozen articles dealing with the experiences of Mexican Americans and other racial and immigrant groups in American cities. Two of Camarillo's books have been widely read. His first book, Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios (published by Harvard University Press in 1979) is in its sixth printing and a new edition was issued in 1996. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans was first published in 1984 and is currently in its fourth printing. His most recent book comparing the history of various major ethnic and racial minority groups in American cities, entitled Not White, Not Black: Mexicans and Racial/Ethnic Borderlands in American Cities, will be published by Oxford University Press.
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