Jimmy Patiño

Jimmy Patiño is an associate professor and historian in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the book Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, published by UNC Press in 2017. The book asserts that important contingents of Mexican-origin activists in the US mobilized movements and communities across differences of national affiliation and citizenship status. Focusing on San Diego due to its vital positioning as both urban and border space where consistent migration and race-based border policing have occurred, the book illuminates a serious challenge to deportation-oriented immigration policies between 1968 and 1986 through the ideological prism of Chicano self-determination. He is now working on a number of other projects, including a study that investigates the conceptualization and historical practice of solidarity primarily through the lens of African American, Chican@, and Puerto Rican sites of struggle in the twentieth century. He has roots in Houston, Texas, and the Texas-Mexico border region and currently lives in North Minneapolis. He received a PhD in United States history from the University of California, San Diego, in 2010. His broader research, teaching, and writing explore multiethnic solidarity, particularly among African Americans and Mexican Americans, Chican@-Latin@ History, transnationalism and the borderlands, social movements, and forms of cultural resistance.