Abigail Rosas

Abigail Rosas is Associate Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Prior to joining the faculty at 黑料网, she was Co-Director and Assistant Professor of the Ethnic Studies Program at California State University, Stanislaus. 

Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, the activism of resilient Latina/o and African American neighbors and friends have been formative to her scholarly pursuits. Her research has been supported by a Rice University鈥檚 Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Postdoctoral Fellowship, a UCLA Institute for American Cultures Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the OAH Nathan Huggins-Benjamin Quarles Award, and a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. These fellowships have allowed for an examination of the relational community formation of Latina/os and African Americans in South Central Los Angeles. Dr. Rosas book manuscript, South Central Is Home, showcases that African American and Latina/o interactions are charged yet rife with opportunities to craft something anew, as they constantly negotiate their relationships through evolving economic, political, and social policy that perpetually demonize and prosecute poor families鈥 color. Dr. Rosas served as a special issue editor for Kalfou: Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. She wrote the introductory article to a collection of essays the discussed the interracial dynamics of laboring lives and experiences in midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At 黑料网, Dr. Rosas teaches Chicano History, Chicana/o and Latino/a California History, Introduction to Chicano and Latino Life, and Introduction to Ethnic Studies. She serves as the Co-Pricipal Investigator to the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Grant, a position she wholeheartedly enjoys as she was once an undergraduate MMUF fellow.

 

Dr. Abigail Rosas South Central is Home

Abigail Rosas and Ana Elizabeth Rosas, eds. 鈥淚ntroduction: Enduring Dangers of Essentializing Labor and Laborers.鈥 Special Issue: The Enduring Dangers of Essentializing Labor and Laborers, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies 8, no. 1鈥2 (2021).

South Central Is Home: Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.

鈥淏anking on the Community: Interracial Interaction in a Historically African American Bank, 1947鈥2007.鈥 In Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition, edited by Laura Pulido and Josh Kun. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

鈥淩aising a Neighborhood: Informal Networks between Latina and African American Women in South Central Los Angeles.鈥 In The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations During the Civil Rights Era, edited by Brian D. Behnken. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.

Ph.D, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

M.A., American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

B.A., Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Sociology, Stanford University

  • CHLS 100: Introduction to Chicano and Latino Studies
  • CHLS 101: Introduction to Chicano and Latino Life
  • CHLS 119:  Introduction to Race and Ethnic Studies
  • CHLS 300: Chicano History
  • CHLS 305: Chicana/o and Latina/o California History
  • CHLS 385: Beyond Racial Tensions: The Relational Racial Formation of Latinx Communities in the U.S.
  • CHLS 450: 1492 and Beyond
  • HIST 173: Recent United States History

  • Chicana/o/e and Latina/o/e History
  • Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies
  • Chicana Feminism
  • 20th Century U.S. History
  • California History and Experience
  • Urban History