La Familia

Richard Griswold del Castillo is chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University. He is author of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict, and The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850–1890: A Social History, and editor of Chicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Justice.

"Using the combined theoretical perspectives of Mark Poster and Barbara Laslett as an initial framework for this work, Richard Griswold del Castillo recreates the history of Mexican American families in four Southwest communities: Tucson, Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Santa Fe. . . . It can certainly be said that Castillo has added to the understanding of the historical and contemporary Mexican American family." --International Social Science Review