Carlos Munoz Jr.Speaker and Booking Agent Information

Muñoz was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation in 1968 at the California State University at Los Angeles and the founding chair of the National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS). He is a pioneer in the creation of undergraduate and graduate curricula in the disciplines of Ethnic Studies.

He is the author of numerous pioneering works on the Mexican American political experience and on African American and Latino political coalitions.

His book Youth Identity Power: The Chicano Movement won the Gustavus Myers Book Award for “outstanding scholarship in the study of human rights in the Untied States.” The book is in its 12th printing and was a major resource for the PBS television series Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Dr.

Muñoz was the senior consultant for the project and was also featured in the series. He has also been featured in several other documentary films. He is currently working on several new books: Diversity and The Challenge for a Multiracial Democracy In America a biographical novel on The Life & Times of Dr.

Ernesto Galarza (the first Mexican American nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature) and The Latino Experience in Major League Baseball. He has also begun work on his autobiography Victory is in the Struggle.