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Jorge N. Leal
Jorge N. Leal is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on how transnational youth cultures have reshaped Southern California Latina/o/x communities in the late twentieth century. He is also the curator of The Rock Archivo LÁ, an online collective repository that collects, shares, and examines Los Angeles Latina/o/x youth cultures ephemera. He is currently revisiting his book manuscript tentatively entitled Aquí y Allá: ¡Yo Voy a Existir! Young Latina/o Ingenuity, Sounds, Solidarity in Late Twentieth Century Los Ángeles 1980–1997 which examines how Latina/o youth used their cultural production and spatial manifestations within Rock Angelino to assert their belonging in Los Angeles, pushed against anti-immigrant rhetoric and advocated for equality and social justice in the United States and Latin America.
Contact: Department of History, UC Riverside, 900 University Ave. HMNSS 1212, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.