Faculty
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Anthony Macías Associate Professor INTS 4042 (951) 827-4393 anthony.macias@ucr.edu |
Anthony Macías received his Ph.D. and M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in twentieth-century United States social and cultural history; Chicano history and historiography; Chicano, Latino, and African American expressive cultures; comparative race and ethnicity; and popular cultural production, circulation, and reception. His book, Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), documents Chicano participation in jazz, the zoot suit phenomenon, car culture, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and Latin music, arguing that Mexican Americans not only rejected second-class citizenship, but also transformed metropolitan Los Angeles. The book reveals the links between a vibrant Chicano expressive culture and postwar social and geographic mobility, showing how Mexican Americans and African Americans challenged their own segregation while producing hip, cool urban styles.
Professor Macías has published on race, urban culture, and municipal politics in American Quarterly, on Latin music and cultural identity in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, on the zoot suit in the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, and on postwar popular American music in the book Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America. He has also written about bebop and black culture. His current book project, "Chicano Americana: Race, Nation, and Representation in Popular Culture," analyzes images of, and performances and recordings by Chicanos, as well as by Mexicanos and other Latinos in American cinema, television, and music. This research investigates Chicanos' self-representations and cultural identifications vis-à-vis the racialized national imaginary and body politic, as well as their diverse portrayals and personas, from the late 1930s to the turn of the twenty-first century.
His research interests include jazz studies, music education, oral history, urban history, Mexican cultural history, environmental history, science fiction, modernity, Twentieth-Century U.S. History; Chicano History; Popular Culture; Chicano, Latino, African American Expressive Cultures, and cosmopolitanism. Courses taught include Introduction to Chicano Studies, Chicanos and Popular Music, Chicano California History, Chicano Political History, and Senior Research Methodology Seminar. He has been a Resident Fellow at the UC Humanities Research Institute, and an Institute of American Cultures/Los Tigres Del Norte Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA. He has presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Studies Association, the Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association, the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, and the Organization of American Historians, as well as at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference. Professor Macías has also given invited talks at the UC Committee on Latino Research/UC MEXUS Conference, at The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, UC San Diego, at the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, at the National Black Arts Festival, and at The Huntington Library, as well as at colloquia, symposia, roundtables, and workshops.