Alvaro Huerta

Bio: Dr. Álvaro Huerta is a Professor at Cal Poly Pomona. From 2021 to 2024, Dr. Huerta was a Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at Harvard Divinity School. While born in the U.S., he spent his early years on the borderlands/la frontera of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, and San Diego, California, U.S. He holds a Ph.D. in City & Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in History from UCLA.

Rudy (RIP): An Ode to Chicano Legend, Dr. Rudolfo F. Acuña

The Contradictions of U.S. Citizenship for Brown People in El Norte

The Criminalization and Resistance of Brown People in El Norte

My Immigrant Father “Stole” American Jobs: Another “Confession” from a Child of Mexican Immigrants

Rudy and Me: Ode to a Living Legend, Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña

Key Lessons for Success in Higher Education and Beyond

Four Ways to Support Latinas/os during the Pandemic and Beyond

White Nationalist Barbarians Storm the Gate(s) of the U.S. Capitol

In Memory of the Juan Gómez-Quiñones: Chicano Scholar, Activist and Poet

An Open Letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom on Ethnic Studies

Police Abuse in America’s Barrios

Brick-by-Brick: An Ode to My Mexican Mother, Carmen Mejía Huerta

To Survive the Coronavirus, Americans Should Learn From Mexicans

Another Five Lessons for Democrats to Defeat Trump in 2020

Reflections of a White Studies Survivor

The Mexican as Endangered Species

Top Five Lessons for Democrats in 2020 Elections

Top Ten List in Defense of MEChA

Reflections of a MEChista by a Chicano Scholar Activist

Mr. President, We Don’t Need Your Stinking Wall

Brief History Notes on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.

Latina/o Immigrants in the Racist Era of Trump

I Am Not Your “Wetback”

A Chicana/o Manifesto on Community Organizing: Reflections of a Scholar-Activist

The War on Immigrants: Racist Policies in the Trump Era

President Trump: the Hustler 2.0

The Hustler: Trump and the Mean Streets of East LA

From Shame to Pride: My Mexican Immigrant Parents

Republican Policies and Christian Values: Inherent Contradictions?

Confessions of an ‘Anchor Baby’: Open Letter to President Donald Trump

Will Trump’s Racism Rescue the Democrats?

Without Hope, Blacks and Latinos Will Take to the Streets

No White Christmas for Brown Immigrants

Humane Immigration Reform

Latinos and the 2012 Elections

Striking Out in Phoenix

From Jim Crow to Juan Crow

Obama’s Big Immigration Speech

The People Who Make Your Garden Grow

The Curious Case of Latino Republicans

Fear and Loathing of Mexicans

Arizona Meet BP

Razing Arizona

Racism on Campus

The Abominable Mr. Dobbs

In Defense of the Undocumented

So Much for the "End of Racism"