David James Gonzalez
Assistant Professor of History and author of Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation, specializing in Latina/o/x politics, migration, urbanization, and social movements with published work on Mexican-American civil rights and grassroots organizing.
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Apr 14, 2026 • 1h 1min
David-James Gonzales, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California" (Oxford UP, 2025)
David-James Gonzales, an assistant professor and historian of Latina/o/x politics, explores how Mexican American communities in Orange County built grassroots movements to challenge segregation. He traces citrus capitalists' role in creating barrios, the rise of local mutual-aid groups and legal mobilization culminating in Mendez v. Westminster, and the long-term political legacy of those organizers.
