Carlos Muñoz is a professor emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement. He is a founder of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, and more personally, was my advisor at Cal.

The following are excerpts from a speech, “From Dr. King to President Obama: A Call for an Authentic Multiracial Democracy,” delivered at the University of New England the day after the Inauguration of President Obama:

Dr. King inspired me to contribute to the making of the Mexican American civil rights movement throughout the Southwest. It became known as the Chicano movement. … Read the rest of this entry »