Rosaura sanchez biography of barack

Rosaura Sánchez is professor of Chicano and Latin American Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Born and raised in San Angelo, Texas, Professor Sánchez received her PhD in romance linguistics from the University of Texas, and joined the Department of Literature at UCSD in 1972, a department she has now served for nearly fifty years. She is widely considered one of the earliest contributors to the field of Chicana/o literature and has explored the issues of race and gender extensively in a variety of literary forms. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of Chicana/o studies and literature, including: "Essays on La Mujer" (1977); Chicano Discourse: Socio-historic Perspectives (1983); "Postmodernism and Chicano Literature" (1987); "The History of Chicanas: Proposal for a Materialist Perspective" (1990); "Discourses of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Chicano Literature" (1992); Telling Identities: The Californio Testimonios (19