MAS Congratulates David Cid!

Our department is very proud to announce that David Cid passed his dissertation defense in February and he will be graduating this May.Dissertation title: Sowing the Seeds of Resistance: The Mexican American Struggle for Political Power, the Rise of the Young Barrio Intellectuals, and Police-State Violence in Los Angeles, 1939-1972Committee: Dr. Roberto Rodriguez (chair), Dr. Lydia Otero, Dr. Maurice Magaña, Dr. Michelle TéllezThe dissertation culminates nearly two decades of participatory activism and social history research into the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles with emphasis on the political evolution and advocacy of the Mexican American community beginning in 1939. The dissertation...