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Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received her doctorate in History from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998. She is the author of States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System (University of California Press, 2012) and Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (University of Arizona Press, 2004) as well as articles on gender, patriarchy, and the law in nineteenth century California. Her most recent book, States of Delinquency, uses one of the harshest states—California—as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency is the first book to explore the experiences of young Mexican Americans, African Americans, and ethnic Euro-Americans in California correctional facilities including Whittier State School for Boys and the Preston School of Industry. Currently, she is working on a family history of migration, courtship, and identity as told through over 200 personal letters exchanged among family members in the 1960s across the U.S.-Mexico border.