Interview with Al Camarillo : Stanford Urban Studies at 50 Oral History Project

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Abstract: In this oral history, Al Camarillo, the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor Emeritus of History, discusses his involvement in the Urban Studies Program beginning in the mid-1970s. Camarillo describes several courses he has taught in the program, including Stanford’s first American urban history introductory course, a service-learning colloquium entitled Poverty and Homelessness, and a course delving into the history of Compton, California. He also recounts his role in shaping the program through the faculty advisory committee as well as the research projects he undertook as an Urban Studies Faculty Fellow. Woven throughout the oral history are reflections on the development of urban studies as a field, including comments on its interdisciplinary nature and on the shifting nature of cities themselves. Camarillo concludes the oral history with a call for the program and the university to continue building opportunities for students to engage with communities off-campus through service-learning courses.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical, text, still image
Extent	1 audio file; 1 text file; 1 photograph
Place	Stanford (Calif.)
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society
Date created	August 17, 2020
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital

Interviewee	Camarillo, Albert
Creator	Camarillo, Albert
Interviewer	Kahan, Michael
Interviewer	Meurice, Nova
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Camarillo, Albert
Subject	Cities and towns > Study and teaching
Subject	College teachers
Genre	Interview

Biographical profile	A member of the Stanford University History Department since 1975, Al Camarillo is widely regarded as one of the founding scholars of the field of Mexican American history and Chicano Studies. He was born and raised in the South Central Los Angeles community of Compton where he attended the Compton public schools before entering the University of California at Los Angeles as a freshman in 1966. He continued his education at UCLA in the PhD program in U.S. History where he received his doctorate in 1975 and where his dissertation was nominated that year as one of the best PhD theses in the nation in American history. Camarillo has published seven books and dozens of articles and essays dealing with the experiences of Mexican Americans and other racial and immigrant groups in American cities.
Transcript	Title Transcript
Finding Aid	Title Urban Studies at 50
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/jw686by7986
Location	SC1580
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Urban Studies at 50

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