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Hernández, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University and lives in La Mesa.
In recent years, the various academic disciplines of ethnic studies — Chicana/o studies, Africana/Black studies, Native/Indigenous studies and Asian American studies — each celebrated their respective 50th anniversaries. Each is unique and internally diverse in its own right — with distinct intellectual and theoretical genealogies and debates, as well as teaching methodologies and subjects of study. Yet what is shared by all is a grounding in concerns raised by the various social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In other words, they are part of the achievements (and unfinished business) of civil rights in the United States.