Armando Navarro
Professor
INTS 4046
(951) 827-5131
Armando Navarro is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He received his A.A. degree in political science from Chaffey College in 1968; B.A. in political science from Claremont McKenna College in 1970; and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Riverside. His areas of teaching specialization include Mexicano/Latino politics, social movements, American politics, and contemporary issues.
Professor Navarro is the author of several books and articles. His books include Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas, published by the University of Texas Press (1995); The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control, published by the University of Wisconsin Press (1998); La Raza Unida Party: A Chicano Challenge to the U.S. Two-Party Dictatorship, published by Temple University Press (2000); and The Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlán: Struggles and Change, published by Alta Mira Press (2005).
Professor Navarro is concurrently working on two books: The U.S./México Border Crisis: Militarization, Nativism, and the Militia Insurgency; and What Needs To Be Done? The Building of a New Movement. The former is scheduled for completion by the Spring of 2007 and the latter in Summer 2008. He also has authored numerous articles, monographs, and reports on Chicano/Latino politics, redistricting, community organizing, immigration, and the Los Angeles Eruption (riots) of 1992.
Professor Navarro is the founder and former Director of the Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center at the University of California, Riverside. He brings to academia some "thirty-seven" years of activism and professional experience in community organizing, politics, and advocacy in dealing with a myriad of local, state, national and international human rights, and social justice issues that particularly affect Mexicanos and Latinos in the United States. Internationally, he has led and facilitated numerous delegations to Latin America, specifically México, Cuba, and Central America.
As a result of his scholarship and activism, Professor Navarro has gained widespread visibility and recognition both domestically and internationally.