DR. CARLOS KEVIN BLANTON

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1 DR. CARLOS KEVIN BLANTON 1 Department of History Texas A&M University 4236 College Station, TX ckblanton@tamu.edu; Phone: (979) PERSONAL Full time Academic Employment History Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Associate Professor, 2007 present (Assistant Department Head, 1/10 to 6/11) Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR Assistant Professor, Higher Education PhD, 1999, History (John Boles), Rice University MA, 1995, History, Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University-San Marcos) BA, 1993, History & Pol. Sci., Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) RESEARCH Awards and Honors 2016 Winner, NACCS Book Award for the best book in Chicano Studies by the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies for George I. Sánchez 2010 Winner, Bolton-Cutter Award for best article on borderlands history by Western History Association for "Citizenship Sacrifice" 2005 Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Award for best book in Texas History by Texas State Historical Association for Strange Career of Bilingual Education 2005 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award by History of Education Society for Strange Career of Bilingual Education Works in Progress Monograph, Between Black and White: The Chicana/o in the American Mind (project in research phase). Monographs George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.) The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004; paperback reprint, 2007). Edited Book A Promising Problem: The New Chicana/o History (Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming spring 2016).

2 Journal Articles "A Legacy of Neglect: George I. Sánchez, Mexican American Education, and the Ideal of Integration, ," Teachers College Record 114:6 (June 2012): "The Citizenship Sacrifice: Mexican Americans, the Saunders-Leonard Report, and the Politics of Immigration, ," Western Historical Quarterly 40:3 (Autumn 2009): "George I. Sánchez, Ideology, and Whiteness in the Making of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, ," Journal of Southern History 72:3 (August 2006): "The Campus and the Capitol: John B. Connally and the Struggle Over Higher Education Policy, ," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 108:4 (April 2005): "From Intellectual Deficiency to Cultural Deficiency: Mexican Americans, Testing, and Public School Policy in the American Southwest, ," Pacific Historical Review 72:1 (February 2003): "'They Cannot Master Abstractions, But They Can Often Be Made Efficient Workers': Race and Class in the Intelligence Testing of Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas During the 1920s," Social Science Quarterly 81:4 (Winter 2000): "Race, Labor, and the Limits of Progressive Reform: A Preliminary Analysis of the Enforcement of Compulsory Attendance in South Texas During the 1920s," Journal of South Texas 13:2 (Fall 2000): Book Chapters "Looking In while Stepping Out: Growth, Reassessment, and the Promising Problem of the New Chicana/o History" in A Promising Problem: The New Chicana/o History, Blanton, ed. (Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming spring 2016). "Deconstructing Texas: The Diversity of People, Place, and Historical Imagination in Recent Texas History" in Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations, Buenger and De León, eds. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011): "The Rise of English-Only Pedagogy: Immigrant Children, Progressive Education, and Language Policy in the United States, " in When Science Encounters the Child: Education, Parenting, and Child Welfare in Twentieth Century America, Grant, Beatty, Cahan, eds. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2006): Book Reviews Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States, by Ruben Flores for History of Education Quarterly (forthcoming). The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town, by Jennifer R. Nájera for Journal of Southern History (forthcoming). Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture, by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela for Journal of American History (forthcoming).

3 Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas History, by Timothy Matovina and Jesús de la Teja, eds. for The Americas (forthcoming). Life Stories: Exploring Issues in Educational History Through Biography, by Linda C. Morice and Laurel Puchner, eds. for Teachers College Record (forthcoming). Aztlán Arizona: Mexican American Educational Empowerment, by Darius V. Echeverría for Pacific Historical Review 84:4 (November 2015): The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century, by Mario T. García, ed., for Western Historical Quarterly 46:2 (Summer 2015): 238. Blowout! Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice by Mario T. García and Sal Castro and Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present by Margarita Berta-Ávila, Anita Tijerina Revilla and Julie López Figueroa for Pacific Historial Review 81:4 (November 2012): Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation ed. by Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez and Emilio Zamora for The East Texas Historical Journal 50:2 (Fall 2012): Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature by John Moran González for Journal of Southern History 77:2 (May 2011): To the Line of Fire: Mexican Texans and World War I by José A. Ramírez for Western Historical Quarterly 42:1 (Spring 2011): Forgotten Gateway: Coming to American Through Galveston Island (exhibit review at Moody Gardens, Galveston, Texas) for Journal of American History 97:3 (December 2010): Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice ed. By Debra A. Reid for Southwestern Historical Quarterly 114:2 (October 2010): White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court by Ignacio M. García for Pacific Historical Review 79:2 (May 2010): Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton Along the Mexico-Texas Border by Casey Walsh for Journal of South Texas 22:3 (Spring 2010): Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality by Richard R. Valencia for American Historical Review 114:3 (June 2009): Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy by Richard D. Kahlenberg for Journal of American History 95:4 (March 2009): Exposing a Culture of Neglect: Herschel T. Manuel and Mexican-American Schooling by Matthew D. Davis for History of Education Quarterly 48:1 (February 2008): Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, by George Mariscal for Journal of American History 94:1 (June 2007):

4 The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston by Roberto R. Treviño for Pacific Historical Review 76:2 (May 2007): Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, by Gerald Horne for Journal of South Texas 20:1 (Spring 2007): Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas by Anthony Quiroz for Pacific Historical Review 75:3 (August 2006): Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas by Amilcar Shabazz for American Historical Review 111:1 (February 2006): Contested Policy: The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. for Southwestern Historical Quarterly 109:1 (July 2005): Beyond Black & White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest by Stephanie Cole and Alison M. Parker for Journal of American History 91:4 (March 2005): A Law for the Lion: A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands by Beatriz de la Garza for Southwestern Historical Quarterly 108:2 (October 2004): Bibliophiling Tejano Scholarship: Secondary Sources on Hispanic Texans by Bruce A. Glasrud and Arnoldo De León for Journal of Southern History 70:4 (November 2004): 992. No Saloon in the Valley: The Southern Strategy of Texas Prohibitionists in the 1880s by James D. Ivy for Journal of South Texas 17:2 (Fall 2004): I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant by Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson, James A. McAllen, and Margaret H. McAllen for Journal of Southern History 70:3 (August 2004): Felix Longoria's Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism by Patrick J. Carroll for Journal of South Texas 17:1 (Spring 2004): Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., for Pacific Historical Review 73:2 (May 2004): De León: A Tejano Family History by Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm for Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 102:2 (Spring 2004): Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province by Daniel D. Arreola for Journal of Southern History 69:4 (November 2003): Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience by Vincent Fitzpatrick for History of Education Quarterly 43:3 (Fall 2003):

5 Alvin Wirtz: The Senator, LBJ, and LCRA by Ken Kesselus for Southwestern Historical Quarterly 107:1 (July 2003): Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans by Martha Menchaca for Southwestern Historical Quarterly 106:3 (January 2003): Mexican Americans in Texas History edited by Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco, and Rodolfo Rocha for Journal of South Texas 14:2 (Fall 2001): Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County by Gilberto Quezada for Journal of Southern History 66:4 (November 2000): The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristál by José Angel Gutiérrez for Journal of Southern History 66:3 (August 2000): Encyclopedia Entries "Irma Rangel" in Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez-Korrol (Indiana University Press, 2006), 611. "Bilingual Education" in Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood (3 vol.) edited by Paula S. Fass (New York: Macmillan, 2003), Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, March 2015 "Dr. George I. Sánchez and Education in New Mexico During the 1930s" Texas State Historical Association, Corpus Christi, TX, March 2015 "The Civil Rights Partnership of Hector P. García and George I. Sánchez, " Western History Association, Newport Beach, CA, October 2014 "George I. Sánchez, the World and Re-Imagining the American Southwest, " National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2014 "The Utility of the Spanish Colonial Past in the Career of George I. Sánchez" History of Education Society, Nashville, TN, November 2013 "George I. Sánchez's Loneliest Struggle: Grappling with Deficiency Thinking in Chicana/o Education History, " The Mexican American Archival Enterprise Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 2013 "Discovering Integration: One Scholar's Journey in Researching Chicana/o Education at the Benson Latin American Collection" Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, CA, April 2013 "George I. Sánchez, the Mexican American Generation, and the Theme of Integration from World War II to the Great Society" American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, May 2010 "A Legacy of Neglect: George I. Sánchez and the Concept of Bilingual Education in the 1960s"

6 History of Education Society, Philadelphia, PA, October 2009 "Publishing Wartime Multiculturalism: George I. Sánchez and Macmillan's Inter-American Series, " 6 Educating the Barrio Hispanic Heritage Month Symposium, Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, TX, September 2009 "The Search for Educational Access and Equality: Mexican Americans and the Bilingual Tradition of Texas" The Immigrant Child: Past, Present, and Future Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 2008 "Languages and Belonging in American Schools" Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Celebrating Dr. Hector P. García and 60 Years of American G. I. Forum Activism Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 2008 "The American G. I. Forum, the Saunders-Leonard Report, and the Politics of Immigration, " Texas State Historical Association, Austin, TX, March 2004 "Teaching Equality: George I. Sánchez, Education, and Civil Rights" Citizenship Unbound Symposium, Texas A&M University and Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, College Station, TX, November 2003 "Teaching Citizenship: George I. Sánchez, Pedagogy, Law, and African Americans, " American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 2003 "Mexican American Strategy, Chicano Consciousness, and the Great Society in the Creation of the Bilingual Education Act" Social Science History Association, St. Louis, MO, October 2002 "Neither a 'Militant Hispanic Lobby' Nor a 'Hispanic Job Corps': The Failure of Myth and Memory in the Historiography of the Bilingual Education Act of 1967" Borderlands in Transition Conference, Texas State Historical Association and Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, November 2001 "'Must Texas Educate Germans, or Bohemians, or Mexicans?' Progressivism, the Twentieth Century Regulatory State, and the Destruction of the Nineteenth Century Bilingual Tradition" Houston Area Southern Historians' Association (HASH), Houston, TX, October 2001 "'The Present System of Education is a Humbug': The Origins of Progressive Education in Texas, " Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, CA, April 2001 "The Nineteenth Century Tradition of American Bilingual Instruction: A Brief Overview of the Case Study of Texas" Western Historical Association, San Antonio, TX, October 2000 "Americanizing the 'Awful Accents' of Public Schools in Texas: Shifts in Lone Star Nativism as Reflected by an Analysis of the 1918 and 1923 English-Only Laws"

7 Texas State Historical Association, Austin, TX, March 2000 "Professor George I. Sánchez: Activist Scholar, Mexican American Leader, and Lonely Dissenter" 7 Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth, TX, November 1999 "World War II, the Good Neighbor Policy, and Reform in the Education of Mexican Americans in Texas" Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April 1999 "Race, Labor, and Progressive Reformers in the Enforcement of Compulsory Education in Texas During the 1920s" Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Hammond, LA, October, 1998 "'They Cannot Master Abstractions, But They Can Often Be Made Efficient Workers': Race, Class, and Intelligence Testing on African Americans and Mexican Americans in Texas During the 1920s" Southwestern Social Science Association, Corpus Christi, TX, March, 1998 "Speak American! The Americanization Movement and Progressive Education in the Rise of English-Only Laws in Texas Public Schools, " National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Houston, TX, February, 1998 "The Science of English-Only Pedagogy: Race and Intelligence Testing in the Education of Mexican Americans in Texas, " Southwestern Social Science Association, Houston, TX, March, 1996 "'A Form of Reform': Texas Higher Education Under John Connally, " Panel Chair and Commentary Texas State Historical Association, Irving, TX, March 2016 (forthcoming) "Hard Times in a Changing Century" (Chair/Commentator) History of Education Society, St. Louis, MO, November 2015 "Entre Mujeres: Living and Learning in Chicago" (Chair/Commentator) History of Education Society, St. Louis, MO, November 2015 "Gateways to the West: Rethinking the History of Education from the Perspective of the North American West An Historiographical Discussion" (Commentator) Southwestern Social Science Association, Denver, Colorado, April 2015 "Author Meets Critics George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration" (Respondent) Western Historical Association, Tucson, AZ, October 2013 "Historical Activism in Our Schools: Content and Conquest" (Chair) Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Denver, CO, August 2013 "Activism by and for Students" (Chair/Commentator)

8 American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 2012 "To Resist or Embrace? Immigrant Perspectives on Public Schooling, " (Chair) 8 Texas State Historical Association, Dallas, TX, March 2010 "Re-Examining Race in Texas, " (Chair/Commentator) Southern Historical Association, Richmond, VA, November 2007 "Latinos in the U.S. South, " (Commentator) Texas State Historical Association, San Antonio, TX, March 2007 "Mexican Americans and World War II" (Commentator) Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., April 2006 "New Histories in Mexican American Education/Nueva Historias Sobre la Educación de los Chicanos" (Roundtable Panelist) Social Science History Association, Portland, OR, November 2005 "Author Meets Critics: Carlos Blanton, The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, " (Respondent) History of Education Society, Baltimore, MY, October 2005 "HES Outstanding Book Award: 'More Than One Struggle; and Writing About Race in Educational History" (Respondent) Symposium Organizing Breaking Free, Breaking Down: The New Chicana/o History of the 21 st Century, Texas A&M University and Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, College Station, TX, forthcoming September 2013 (Principal Co-Organizer) Citizenship Unbound Symposium, Texas A&M University and Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, College Station, TX, November 2003 (Principal Co-Organizer) SELECTED TEACHING Undergraduate HIST 106, U.S. History Survey, Second Half HIST 226, Texas History Survey HIST 307, Latinos in the U.S. HIST 319, U.S. Immigration and Ethnicity HIST 373, The Great Depression and World War II HIST 416, Texas since 1845 HIST 481, Senior Seminar (Progressive Education in Texas, ) HIST 485, Directed Studies HIST 489, Special Topics (Education History) HIST 497, Undergraduate Honors Thesis Graduate HIST 621, The Emergence of Modern America HIST 622, American War, Prosperity, and Depression HIST 625, Race, Ethnicity, and Migration, Research Seminar HIST 628, Historiography HIST 678, Comparative Borders, Introduction

9 HIST 679, Comparative Borders, Special Topics HIST 685, Directed Studies HIST 691, Thesis/Dissertation Work 9 Completed Doctoral Students Cassandra Rincones, Spring 2015 Confronting the Unknown: Tejanas in the Transformation of Spanish and Mexican Texas, Ralph E. Morales, Spring 2015 Hijos de la Gran Guerra: The Creation of the Mexican American Identity in Texas, Completed Masters Students Robin Roe, Summer 2015 On a Flood of Words: Race and Ethnicity in the Language of Disaster in Early Twentieth-Century Texas Melinda Wilson, Summer 2008 Budhism East and West: Chinese Buddhism in Beijing and Houston Carol R. H. Simmons, Fall 2005, non-thesis option SELECTED SERVICE Professional Texas State Historical Association Executive Board, 2010-present Finance Committee, 2012-present Nominations Committee, 2014-present Liz Carpenter Book Award Committee, 2014-present Membership Committee, (chair, ) Education Committee, Fellowship Committee, Coral Horton Tullis and Kate Broocks Bates Book Award Committee, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Executive Board, 2015-present History of Education Quarterly Advisory Board, Southern Historical Association Committee on Minorities, 2015-present Program Committee for 2012 meeting in Mobile, AB, Membership Committee, and Organization of American Historians, Local Resources Committee of 2011 meeting in Houston, TX, Review of book manuscripts for University of Texas Press, University of Arizona Press, University of California Press, Texas A&M University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Longman Press, 2003-present

10 Review of article manuscripts for Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Pacific Historical Review, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, History of Education Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of South Texas, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Policy History, 2000-present 10 Grader for Educational Testing Service s AP U.S. History exams, University Texas A&M University Press Faculty Advisory Committee, 2006-present Bob Calvert Book Prize Committee (chair), 2010-present Faculty Senate, Assistant Department Head, Professional Organizations I am currently a member of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, Texas State Historical Association, History of Education Society, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Western History Association, and the American Association of University Professors.