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About David-James Gonzales
David-James ("DJ") Gonzales is a native Southern Californian, author, and assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. His research and teaching focus on race/ethnicity, migration, urbanization, and social movements in the United States. In addition to BYU, DJ has taught at USC and UCLA. His work has been published in scholarly journals and anthologies, including the Journal of American Ethnic History, American Studies, and 50 Events that Shaped Latino History. His book, Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, CA (Oxford University Press, 2025), details the ethnic Mexican struggle against racial capitalism in Southern California and their ensuing politicization that led to the Mendez, et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County, et al. (1946) decision, which ended de jure school segregation in California seven years before Brown v. Board (1954).David-James Gonzales (DJ) is the author of Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, CA (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of Latino (a/x/e) migration, politics, and social movements.
NBN Episodes hosted by David-James:
January 16, 2026
The Truth About Immigration
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States―and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict immi…
December 20, 2025
The Latino Threat
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the Am…
June 27, 2025
Learning to Lead
In Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education (Duke University Press, 2024), Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of educat…
March 9, 2025
Fighting for Control
The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad J…
December 30, 2024
The Latino Century
In 2020, Latinos became the second largest ethnic voting group in the country. They make up the largest plurality of residents in the most populous st…
December 14, 2024
Civil Rights in Bakersfield
In Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press, 2024), Oliver Rosales uncovers …
September 10, 2024
Baseball as Mediated Latinidad
In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity (Ohio State University Press, 2020)…
June 11, 2024
Inventing Latinos
Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rat…
May 28, 2024
Ignored Racism
Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost e…
May 22, 2024
Remembering Conquest
Omar Valerio-Jiménez's book Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship (UNC Press, 2024) analyzes the ways collective memories o…
February 29, 2024
Dreamland
In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be…
September 8, 2023
The Strikers of Coachella
The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its ra…
February 6, 2023
Transborder Los Angeles
Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles: An…
June 3, 2022
Brown Church
For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo,…
February 1, 2022
Unauthorized Love
For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing e…
November 10, 2021
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. Mor…
October 21, 2021
Sounds of Crossing
In Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke UP, 2017), Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics…
July 6, 2021
Boyle Heights
The vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined et…
May 24, 2021
The Shadow of El Centro
Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San Dieg…
April 27, 2021
Apostles of Change
In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on p…
March 30, 2021
Unforgetting
The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming i…
January 20, 2021
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961 (Oxford University Pre…
November 13, 2020
Latinx Art
In Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke UP, 2020), Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explo…
October 21, 2020
Once I Was You
Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who, for nearly thirty years, has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored b…