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Rosie C. Bermudez is a Chicana social historian of the twentieth-century United States and an interdisciplinary scholar of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Feminist and Women’s Studies. She received her PhD in Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019. Her dissertation research was supported by the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States. Her journey through the academy began at East Los Angeles College and prior to joining the faculty at UC San Diego she was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA in the department of History (2019-2021).
Her forthcoming book, Dignity Warriors: Alicia Escalante and the Multiracial Coalition for Economic Justice and Human Dignity is a political biography of the gendered leadership of Alicia Escalante and the organization she founded, the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization. Dignity Warriors is also a social history that documents the collective struggle of poor women on welfare and theorizes the political practice of movement building, the reproductive labor of poor women, and the mothering of women of color as dignity work and as militant motherhood. Her manuscript positions Alicia Escalante and the ELAWRO at the forefront of a legacy of Chicana feminist grassroots community organizing and poor women’s militant activism.
Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century Chicana and Latina history, women of color feminisms, twentieth-century social movements, race and ethnicity, grassroots activism, history of Los Angeles, women’s history, and oral history.
Address: University of California, Los Angeles
Department of History
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Box 951473
Los Angeles, Ca. 90095-1473
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Journal of American Ethnic History, Apr 1, 2022
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Dec 21, 2022
Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organizat... more Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization and the relevant history of its founding member Alicia Escalante in relation to their development into a Chicana feminist organization. To date a comprehensive and or ...
This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social j... more This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social justice activism based on Black-Brown coalition building and solidarity across various social movements. Within the larger welfare rights movement, a fundamentally feminist cause, Escalante advocated for the specific cultural, linguistic, and legal needs of the Spanish-speaking community. Participating in Black-Brown solidarity for multiple social justice causes in Los Angeles and nationally, Alicia Escalante faced arrests and police violence, modeling and inspiring her children and others, then and now, to militant dignity work.
Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organizat... more Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization and the relevant history of its founding member Alicia Escalante in relation to their development into a Chicana feminist organization. To date a comprehensive and or ...
Southern California Quarterly, 2020
This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social j... more This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social justice activism based on Black-Brown coalition building and solidarity across various social movements. Within the larger welfare rights movement, a fundamentally feminist cause, Esca-lante advocated for the specific cultural, linguistic, and legal needs of the Spanish-speaking community. Participating in Black-Brown solidarity for multiple social justice causes in Los Angeles and nationally, Alicia Esca-lante faced arrests and police violence, modeling and inspiring her children and others, then and now, to militant dignity work.
Journal of American Ethnic History, Apr 1, 2022
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Dec 21, 2022
Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organizat... more Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization and the relevant history of its founding member Alicia Escalante in relation to their development into a Chicana feminist organization. To date a comprehensive and or ...
This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social j... more This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social justice activism based on Black-Brown coalition building and solidarity across various social movements. Within the larger welfare rights movement, a fundamentally feminist cause, Escalante advocated for the specific cultural, linguistic, and legal needs of the Spanish-speaking community. Participating in Black-Brown solidarity for multiple social justice causes in Los Angeles and nationally, Alicia Escalante faced arrests and police violence, modeling and inspiring her children and others, then and now, to militant dignity work.
Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organizat... more Abstract: This thesis recovers and interprets the history of the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization and the relevant history of its founding member Alicia Escalante in relation to their development into a Chicana feminist organization. To date a comprehensive and or ...
Southern California Quarterly, 2020
This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social j... more This article explores the 1960s welfare rights movement in Los Angeles as one example of social justice activism based on Black-Brown coalition building and solidarity across various social movements. Within the larger welfare rights movement, a fundamentally feminist cause, Esca-lante advocated for the specific cultural, linguistic, and legal needs of the Spanish-speaking community. Participating in Black-Brown solidarity for multiple social justice causes in Los Angeles and nationally, Alicia Esca-lante faced arrests and police violence, modeling and inspiring her children and others, then and now, to militant dignity work.