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Faculty Curriculum Vitae ************************************************************************ NAME: Dr. Jesus Jesse Esparza POSITION/TITLE: Adjunct Professor of History OFFICE ADDRESS: Department of History, Houston Community College Central 1300 Holman St. Houston, TX. 77004 OFFICE TELEPHONE: 713.313.4841 WORK EMAIL: [email protected] ************************************************************************ EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND/TRAINING Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Houston, Fall 2008 Minor: Latin American History M.Ed., U.S. History, Southwest Texas State University, Fall 2001 Minor: Women’s Studies B.A., U.S. History, Southwest Texas State University, Spring 2000 Minor: Spanish RELEVANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Fall 2016-Present, Department of History, Geography, and General Studies, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas. Visiting Assistant Professor, 2008-2016, History Department, Texas Southern University United States History I and II, Texas History, Mexican American History, History of Mexico, and Civil Rights Movements History History Adjunct Instructor, 2012-2016, History Department, HCC Central Campus United States History I and II, and Mexican American History Visiting Assistant Professor, 2009-2012, History Department, Texas A&M University United States History I and II, Texas History, Mexican American History, and Western Civilization 1660 to the Present History Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2011, Hist. Department, Lone Star College-CyFair United States History I History Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2009, History Department, University of Houston United States History I ACADEMIC RESEARCH/CREATIVE ENDEAVORS My manuscript, Raza Schools: Latino Educational Activism and Autonomy in Del Rio, Texas, 1920-1980, examines the historical experiences of residents from the Latino neighborhood of Del Rio, a borderlands community in west Texas, since the end of World War I through the post-civil rights era and their desire to establish and maintain an Page 1 of 9 Faculty Curriculum Vitae autonomous educational system. Founded in 1929, parents and community leaders formed the San Felipe Independent School District, arguably the first and perhaps only completely controlled Mexican American school district in the history of the state of Texas. And for forty-two years, they funded, maintained, and managed their own school system where they were free to exercise educational self-determination. In 1971, the federal government, concerned mainly with the issue of school segregation, forced San Felipe ISD to consolidate with a neighboring, larger, and mostly white school district that served the other half of the city. Although the objective of the court was strictly to achieve integration, the order had an adverse impact on the people of San Felipe including the loss of their schools as they would be absorbed into the large, more affluent district. Moreover, they would experience a loss of their autonomy and witness the intrusion of whites and the federal government onto their community. Consolidation also magnified new internalized problems as leaders from both former ISDs, having to face each other daily within the confines of a single school district, clashed over the most appropriate curriculum, school governance, teacher’s positions, and funding for students. This manuscript is comparative in nature as it explores the relationships between Latinos and whites who shared a segregated city and positions also the experiences of African Americans who lived in Del Rio and attended both districts as a segregated population. This manuscript explores the nature of the interaction between all three ethnic-groups as they each struggled for school governance, control, and autonomy. ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP “Chale Con la Guerra: The Chicano Anti-War Movement in Houston, 1965-1975.” In Chicano Power!: Essays on the Chicano Movement. Edited by Mario Garcia and Ellen McCracken. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, forthcoming. “The Jewel of the Barrio: The Raul Yzaguirre School for Success and Community Centered Education in Houston, Texas, 1996-2016.” The Journal of South Texas, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Fall 2018). “The Legacy of the Day of the Dead.” The Mexican American Studies Reader. Kendall Hunt Publishing. (November 2017). “A History of Chicana and Chicano Studies: From the Third World Liberation Front to the Ban on Ethnic Studies.” The Mexican American Studies Reader. Kendall Hunt Publishing. (November 2017). “From Mexican American to Chicana/o, 1930-1980.” The Mexican American Studies Reader. Kendall Hunt Publishing. (November 2017). “La Colonia Mexicana: A History of Mexican Americans in Houston.” Houston History Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1, The Center for Public History, University of Houston, Fall 2011, 2-8. “La Escuela Negra: The Status of Black School-Aged Children in a West Texas Mexican American School District, 1925-1965.” Journal of History and Culture 1:4, The Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture, Prairie View A&M University, Summer 2011, 30-49. “DJ Screw” The Handbook of Texas Music, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, Fall 2003, 74. “Tito Guizar” The Handbook of Texas Music, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, Fall 2003, 129. Page 2 of 9 Faculty Curriculum Vitae Encyclopedic Essays: (Latino) “World War II.” 50 Events That Shaped Latino History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic. Lilia Fernández, Editor. ABC-CLIO Publisher. Fall 2017. “Blowouts,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 1. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 73-74. “Chicano Art,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 1. Carmen Lugo- Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 107-108. “Community Service Organization,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 1. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 130-131. “Gonzales, Rodolfo ‘Corky’,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 1. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 207-209. “Mendez v. Westminster School District (1946),” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 321-322. “Mexican American Political Association,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 328-330. “National Council of La Raza,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 383-385. “Plan Espiritual de Aztlan,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 425-427. “Politics,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 428-435. “Reparation,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 477-479. “Taos Rebellion,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo- Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 521-522. “Tijerina, Reies Lopez,” Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, Eds., New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009, 536- 539. “Albuquerque Walkout” Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States, Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum Eds., Danbury, CT.: Grolier Academic Reference, 2005, 63-64. “East Los Angeles School Walkouts” Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States, Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum Eds., Danbury, CT.: Grolier Academic Reference, 2005, 123-126. Page 3 of 9 Faculty Curriculum Vitae (African American) “Black Panther Party,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, Vol. 1. Gerald Horne, Ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 218-219. “Crown Heights Riot” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, Vol. 1. Gerald Horne, Ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 520-521. “King, Martin Luther, Assassination of” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, Vol. 3. Gerald Horne, Ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 107-109. “Rod Paige,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, Vol. 4. Gerald Horne, Ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 41-42. “Hispanic Immigrants and Hispanic Americans, Relations With Black Migrants,” Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, Vol. 1. Steven A. Reich, Ed., Westport, CT.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, 588-592. “Hispanic Migration to and Within the United States, Comparison With Great Black Migration,” Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, Vol. 1. Steven A. Reich, Ed., Westport, CT.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, 392-395. “Riots and Rebellions From the Antebellum Period to 1895,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, vol. 3. Paul Finkelman, Ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 48-53. PUBLICATION PROJECTS: Manuscripts: Raza Schools: Latino Educational Activism