Aida Hurtado
Aida Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Possessing over 130 publications, including nine books and forty-three policy reports, Hurtado is one of the highest-ranking Chicana faculty members in the University of California system (AAHHE, 2017). Dr. Hurtado’s research focuses upon social/group identity and language. She specializes in unequal distributions of power between social groups like ethnicity, race, class, and gender. Recent books by Hurtado include the following titles: Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Understandings of Latinos’ Views of Manhood, Feminisms, and Political Collaborations, 2016; Chicana/o Identity in Changing U.S. society ¿Quién soy? ¿Quiénes somos?, 2004; Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Chicanas Speak Out on Sexuality and Feminism, 2003; and The color of privilege: Three blasphemies on race and feminism, …show more content…
He served five years in prison for possessing and selling drugs. After his release, he reunited with family and entered higher education. Jose received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Two years later, he received his master’s degree from San Jose State University. Aida Hurtado proposes that theories forwarded by feminists of Color offer insights of Jose’s successful reintegration into society (Hurtado, A., & Sinha, M., 2016).
In keeping with her belief that “California’s public education system is precious and extraordinary”, Hurtado says her “scholarship begins in the classroom” (Leachman, 2017). Her classrooms are a living laboratory whereby she sees how well new ideas about gender equity resonate with young students. "It has brought me enormous satisfaction to know I have contributed in some small way to the creation of the next generation of scholars who will take the study of gender in the academy seriously," said Hurtado (McNulty,
Aida Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Possessing over 130 publications, including nine books and forty-three policy reports, Hurtado is one of the highest-ranking Chicana faculty members in the University of California system (AAHHE, 2017). Dr. Hurtado’s research focuses upon social/group identity and language. She specializes in unequal distributions of power between social groups like ethnicity, race, class, and gender. Recent books by Hurtado include the following titles: Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Understandings of Latinos’ Views of Manhood, Feminisms, and Political Collaborations, 2016; Chicana/o Identity in Changing U.S. society ¿Quién soy? ¿Quiénes somos?, 2004; Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Chicanas Speak Out on Sexuality and Feminism, 2003; and The color of privilege: Three blasphemies on race and feminism, …show more content…
He served five years in prison for possessing and selling drugs. After his release, he reunited with family and entered higher education. Jose received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Two years later, he received his master’s degree from San Jose State University. Aida Hurtado proposes that theories forwarded by feminists of Color offer insights of Jose’s successful reintegration into society (Hurtado, A., & Sinha, M., 2016).
In keeping with her belief that “California’s public education system is precious and extraordinary”, Hurtado says her “scholarship begins in the classroom” (Leachman, 2017). Her classrooms are a living laboratory whereby she sees how well new ideas about gender equity resonate with young students. "It has brought me enormous satisfaction to know I have contributed in some small way to the creation of the next generation of scholars who will take the study of gender in the academy seriously," said Hurtado (McNulty,