Gilda L. Ochoa and Enrique C. Ochoa

Short Biography

Gilda L. Ochoa is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Pomona College in Southern California. Her work explores schooling experiences amd the factors influencing Mexican American-Mexican immigrant relationships and Latina/o-Asian American relationships. She is the author of Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community (University of Texas Press 2004) and Learning from Latino Teachers (Jossey-Bass Publishers 2007). She also co-edited with Enrique C. Ochoa Latino Los Angeles (University of Arizona Press 2005). Currently, she is completing a qualitative study on the educational aspirations and outcomes of Latina/o and Asian American students at a southern California high school.

Enrique C. Ochoa is a professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles and is currently visiting at Cal Poly Pomona as the Michi and Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair of Multicultural Studies. His research focuses on Mexican and Central American political and economic history, the welfare state, revolution, critical pedagogy, and transnational Latina/o communities. His publications include Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food Since 1910 (2000) and Latino Los Angeles (2005) edited with Gilda L. Ochoa. He is a member of the editorial collectives of the journals Latin American Perspectives and the Radical History Review. He is currently working on a book on capital, labor, and culture in the transnational tortilla industry.