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About the Author A native of Mexico City and the father of three children,Alfredo Mirandé is a professor of sociology and served as the chair of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside; he also taught at the Texas Tech University School of Law. He received a BS in social science from Illinois State University; MA and PhD degrees in sociology from the University of Nebraska; and a JD from Stanford University. Mirandé was a National Research Council fellow in ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Rockefeller fellow in sociology at Stanford University. Mirandé’s teaching and research interests are in Chicano sociology; gender and masculinity; constitutional law; civil rights; and the relationships among law, race, class, and gender. He is the author of The Age of Crisis (Harper & Row, 1975), La Chicana: The Mexican American Woman (co-authored with Evangelina Enríquez, University of Chicago Press, 1979), The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective (University of Notre Dame Press, 1985), Gringo Justice (University of Notre Dame Press, 1987), Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture (Westview Press, 1997), and The Stanford Law Chronicles: Doin’ Time on the Farm (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). He has also published numerous journal articles on sociology, law, and ethnic studies. Mirandé is a full-time teacher and researcher and has a limited, largely pro bono law practice specializing in criminal law and employment discrimination. ...

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