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Richard Cruz Davila
Richard Cruz Davila is a researcher with the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University. He holds a Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on Latina/os in US popular music, including the dispersion of Texas-Mexican music into Michigan and the Midwest through patterns of Tejano labour migration from the 1940s onward and the history of Latina/os in US punk scenes from the 1970s to the present, with a geographical focus on Los Angeles and Chicago.