Her first book, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000), won the James H. AlamilloĬatherine Allgor is the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Francis Dam DisasterĬlick here for more information about José M. Flood of Memories: How Mexican Families Survived the St.A History of Sports and Latinx Communities.The Politics of Labor, Leisure and Sports in Mexican America.The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora.NEW IN 2020: Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press) Alamillo is currently working on two projects: "Sports and the Chicano/a Movement" and the role of Spanish language newspapers and Mexican Blue Cross during and after the 1928 St. His family’s experiences in the lemon industry inspired his first book, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1900-1960 (2006). He co-authored Latinos in U.S Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance (2011). His most recent book is " Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora. He is a consultant to the new exhibition "¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas" opening summer 2021 at Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Alamillo’s research focuses on the ways Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have used culture, leisure, and sports to build community and social networks to advance politically and economically in the United States and Mexico. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles’ Chicano Studies Research Center, he taught courses in Chicano/a Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sports Studies for nine years in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. in Comparative Cultures (Ethnic Studies) at University of California, Irvine. degrees in Sociology and Communication at UCSB. At middle school age, he took part in University of California, Santa Barbara's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and earned B.A.
His family worked in the year-round lemon industry which allowed him to attend local public schools uninterrupted. Alamillo was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and raised in Ventura County, California.
Policing, Urban Culture, and Liberal Politics after World War II.The Police, African Americans, and Mass Incarceration after World War II.His interest in history education extends beyond the college campus, and he frequently works with local high-school history teachers and community history groups. Considering the transition from "guardian policing" to "warrior policing," the political influence of neighborhood watch programs, and the invention of downtown special service districts, this project ultimately finds the grassroots politics that inspired and buttressed President Bill Clinton's campaign to add "100,000 police on America's streets." Agee teaches courses in crime and policing, social movements, urban history, and modern American history. He is now researching the rise of community policing in Philadelphia and Houston during the 1980s and 1990s and the crafting and passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. He has recently coedited "The Police in Post–World War II Urban America," a special section for the Journal of Urban History. He is the author of The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972 (2014). An associate professor of history at the University of Colorado Denver, Christopher Agee specializes in the history of police, urban culture, and liberal politics.
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