Biographical Sketch
Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez has been President and Chief Operating Officer of the Greater Dallas Legal and Community Development Foundation since 1986. He is both a licensed attorney in Texas and several federal jurisdictions and a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. Dr. Gutiérrez is also the founder of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas-Arlington including the oral history project.
During the Chicano Movement he was considered one of the Four Horsemen of that era. He has authored and co-authored 28 books, plus three children’s books.
His last three are available at this site: www.amazon.com
Dr. Gutiérrez has received many professional honors including the 2019 National Hispanic Hero Award from the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago, Illinois, and the 2016 Distinguished Alumni from Texas A & M University-Kingsville.
Angel Gutierrez has been President and Chief Operating Officer of the Greater Dallas Legal and Community Development Foundation since 1986. He is both a licensed attorney in Texas and several federal jurisdictions and a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and founder of the Center for Mexican American Studies.at the University of Texas-Arlington including the oral history project:
During the Chicano Movement was considered one of the Four Horsemen of that era. He has authored and co-authored 28 books plus three children’s books.
His last three are available at this site: www.amazon.com
He has received many professional honors including the 2019 National Hispanic Hero Award from the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago, Illinois: Youtube Video and the 2016 Distinguished Alumni from Texas A & M University-Kingsville.
CURRICULUM VITAE
University of Houston, Bates College of Law, J.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, Ph.D. (Government/Mexican American Studies)
St. Mary’s University at San Antonio, Texas, M.A. (Government/History)
Texas Arts and Industries University at Kingsville, Texas, B. A. (Government/History) [New name: Texas A & M University at Kingsville].
Post-Doctoral Work at Stanford University (Fellowship); University of Washington (Ethnic Studies); University of Texas-Austin (US Presidency); Colegio de Mexico; Centro de Estudios Economicos y Sociales del Tercer Mundo (Relations with Mexicans Abroad)
State and Local Government,* American Government, Ethnic Politics, Chicana/o Politics, Latino/a Politics*, Mexican American Politics*, Interest Group Politics, Public Policy, Public Leadership, Free Speech and Social Media, U.S. Government Intelligence Community, U.S. Intelligence Community and Ethno-Racial-Gender Groups and Individuals, The Nation-State*, Government of Mexico, Mexico-U.S. (Chicanos) Relations, U.S. Immigration Policy, Biography, Public History.
*online also at Portland State University
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, California Polytechnical University, San Luis Obispo, Fall 2022 to present.
Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute, Federal Writers’ Project of the New Deal. Summer 2021.
Fellow, Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, California, September 2020-May 2021.
Professor, Online, Latino Politics in the United States, Winter Term, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 2018.
Visiting Research Fellow, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, June 2016, June 2017, and June-July 2018.
Professor Emeritus, University of Texas-Arlington, October 8, 2015.
Professor, Political Science, University of Texas-Arlington, January 25, 2005 to June 2015.
Visiting Professor, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, Summers 2011, 2012.
Lecturer, Texas A & M University Kingsville, Political Science, August 22, 2007 to December 15, 2007.
Visiting Scholar, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, January 8, 2004 to May 24, 2004. (Faculty Development Leave)
Visiting Scholar, Center for Southwest Regional Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 27, 2000 to August 17, 2000.
Visiting Scholar, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, August 28, 1997 to August 31, 1998. (On approved unpaid leave of absence.)
Special Advisor to the President, University of Texas at Arlington, January 1, 1997 to December 31, 1998.
Founder and Director, Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), University of Texas at Arlington, 1993 to December 31, 1996.
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Texas-Arlington, September 1, 1993 to January 24, 2005.
Lecturer, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Political Economy, 1991-1992.
Associate Professor, Western Oregon State College, Department of Social Science, Monmouth, Oregon, 1985-1986.
Assistant Professor, Western Oregon State College, Department of Social Science, Monmouth, Oregon, 1981-1985.
Program Administrator and Academic Supervisor, Oregon State System of Higher Education, International Education Office, Oregon State University and Mexico Study, at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Departamento de Filosofia y Letras, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. January-June 15, 1982.
Adjunct Faculty, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, 1980-1983.
Vice President, Academic and International Education Studies, Colegio Cesar Chavez, Mt. Angel, Oregon, 1980.
Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Department of Political Science, Houston, Texas, Summers 1976, 1977, 1978 and Spring Semester, 1979.
Founder and Executive Director, Carnegie Internship Program, Crystal City Independent School District, Crystal City, Texas, 1973-1974.
Adjunct Faculty, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois and California State University at San Diego, California of the Carnegie Internship Program, Crystal City, Texas, 1973-1974.
Lecturer, University of Texas, Department of Government, Austin, Texas, 1970-1971.
Founder and Sole owner of the Legal Center of Jose Angel Gutierrez, P.C. in May 1991. Maintain practice to the present time. Licensed in Texas, various federal courts in Texas and Arizona, and Federal Court of Claims.
Chief Executive Officer/President of the Greater Dallas Legal and Community Development Foundation, Inc. (GDLCDF) since May 1986 to present time. Primarily voting rights litigation, Titles VII, IX in recent years. Previously, the GDLCDF was one of the few foundations created when Legal Services Corporation began to dimmish the range of legal services for the poor under President. R. Reagan.
Video Ethnographic Interviews. Subjects were 9 Mexican Americans residing in New Mexico that are members of the Reies Lopez Tijerina family and or participants in events in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico during the late 1960s. The transcribed, soft cover, and videotaped interviews were placed with the Center for Regional Studies, Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico. Completed on August 15, 2020.
Member, Committee on Committees, Oral History Association, 2022-2024
Bashing Boriquas: The FBI’s War Against Independistas, Amazon.com, 2022.
The American Eagle: Spying on Mexicans and Chicanos, Amazon.com, 2022.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz: The FBI and HUAC Files, Amazon.com, 2021.
FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980: The Eagle Is Watching, Lexington Press, 2021.
FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 2020.
Tracking King Tiger, Reies Lopez Tijerina and the FBI File, E. Lansing: Michigan State University Press. November 2019.
The Eagle Has Eyes: The FBI File on Cesar E. Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union, 1965-1975. E. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, February 2019. 2nd place in Non-fiction Latino Themed category from International Latino Book Awards, September 2019.
Alberto A. Peña, Jr.: Dean Emeritus of Chicano Politics. E. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. 1st place in Best Biography category from International Latino Book Awards, October 2018.
Beyond the Rio Grande: A Brief History of Mexicans in North Texas, translated into English language by José Angel Gutiérrez with assistance from Natalia Verjat for Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico, D.F. 2013.
Mas Alla del Rio Bravo; Breve Historia de Mexicanos en el Norte de Texas, José Angel Gutiérrez and Moises Gurrola, edited original work in Spanish language by Roberto Calderon and Manuel Garcia y Griego, Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico D.F.:2013. Publication and publisher of English version to be determined by Mexican government.
The Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, Co-authored with Natalia Verjat Gutiérrez, Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2013.
Chicanas in Charge: Texas Women in the Public Arena, Co-authored with Michele Melendez and Sonia Noyola. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. 2007.
We Won’t Back Down! Severita Lara’s Rise from Student Leader to Mayor, Houston: Arte Publico Press. University of Houston. 2005.
The Making of a Civil Rights Leader: Jose Angel Gutierrez. Houston: Arte Publico Press. University of Houston. 2005.
A Chicano Manual on How to Handle Gringos, Houston: Arte Publico Press, University of Houston, 2003.
A Gringo Manual on How to Handle Mexicans. Houston: Arte Publico Press, University of Houston. Revised and expanded 2nd edition. 2001.
They Call Me “King Tiger”: My Struggle for the Land and Our Rights by Reies Lopez Tijerina. Houston: Arte Publico Press, University of Houston. 2000. Translation and editing of original autobiography, Mi lucha por la tierra, (Mexico DF: Fondo de Cultural Economica,1978).
The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1998.
A War of Words, with John C. Hammerback and Richard Jensen, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985.
A Gringo Manual on How to Handle Mexicans. Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico:
Imprenta Velasco Buckhardt, S.A. and Wintergarden Publishing House, 1974. (Out of Print)
El Politico: The Mexican American Elected Official, El Paso: A Mictla Publications Book, 1972. (Out of Print)
La Raza and Revolution an Empirical Study of the Conditions for Revolution in Four South Texas Counties, Palo Alto, California: R. and E. Associates, 1970. (Revision of Master’s Thesis).
I Am Olga: First Latina Jet Fighter Pilot, New York: Austin Macauley Publishers, 2019, a picture book.
The Hero of the Cinco de Mayo: Ignacio Zaragoza, Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2020, a bilingual picture book.
IGNACIO ZARAGOZA SEGUIN: My Story of the Cinco de Mayo, Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2021, a middle reader, bilingual book.
One Man Army: Biography of Jose Tomas Canales, 1877-1976.., 350 ps approx.
Deacons Before Panthers: FBI Files on the Deacons for Defense and Justice, 300 ps approx.
Derailing Henry Wallace: Surveillance of a Presidential Aspirant, 250 ps. approx.
The Only Ones: Chicano/a Public Leadership in Texas, 1950-2022. Research in progress, 350 ps. approx.
“A Logomachy on Mexican American Studies in Texas,” Brown Papers: Current Ideas on Mexican American Civil Rights, Vol.1 Issue 1 Spring 2021: 3-15.
“Subtracting Spanish and Forcing English: My Lived Experience in Texas Public Schools,” in Jose Cobas, Bonnie Urciuoli, Joe Feagin and Daniel Delgado, eds., The Spanish Language in the United States: Rootedness, Racialization, and Resistance, (Philadelphia: Routledge, 2021).
“Doctor, Doctor: Not Like Degrees on a Thermometer,” in Valverde, Leonard, ed. The Latino Student Guide to College Success, 2nd.ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2012.
“Obamanos en 2008: Un analisis del voto Chicano e Hispano en la eleccion presidencial de los Estados Unidos Americanos (EUA), in Tomas Clavo Buezas and Isabel Gentil Garica, eds., Inmigrantes en Estados Unidos y en España: Protagonistas en el siglo XXI,” Madrid: Ediciones Eunate, 2010.
“The Chicano Movement: Dead or Alive?” in Beverly Irby, ed., Immigration in the United States and Spain: Consideration for Educational Leaders, Houston: Connexions (Rice University Consortium), 2010.
“La Raza Unida Party: The Legacy 40 Years Later,” in Jose Villarino and Arturo Ramirez, eds. 4th ed., Aztlan: Chicano Culture and Folklore an Anthology, NY: McGraw Hill, Inc., 2009.
“The Texas Court System,” Chapter 10 in Texas Politics: Individuals Making a Difference, 3rd edition, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
“El movimiento Chicano, Vivo o Muerto?” in Tomas Clavo Buezas, ed., El gigante dormido: El poder Hispano en los Estados Unidos, Madrid, España: CATRATA. 2007.
“The Beginnings of Chicanismo,” in Hecho en Tejas, Dagoberto Gilb, ed., Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
“The Texas Court System,” Chapter 10 in Texas Politics: Individual Making a Difference, 2nd edition, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
“Chicano Music: The Politics and Evolution to 1950” in The Roots of Texas Music, eds. Lawrence Clayton and Joe Specht, College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2003.
“The Texas Court System.” Chapter 10 in Texas Politics: Individuals Making a Difference, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
“Chicanos and Mexicans Under Surveillance: 1940-1980,” Renato Rosaldo Lecture Series Monograph, Ignacio Garcia, ed., Mexican American Studies & Research Center: University of Arizona, spring 1986.
“The Chicano in Mexicano/Norte Americano Foreign Relations,” in Chicano-Mexicano Relations, Tatcho Mindiola, Jr. and Max Martinez, eds., Mexican American Studies Program: University of Houston-University Park, Monograph No. 4, spring, 1986.
“A Chicano Position on Proposals for Action by the Next President of Mexico: 1982- 1988,”in The State of Hispanic America, Vol. II, Oakland, California: National Hispanic University, 1982.
“22 Miles,” in Empringham’s Fiesta in Aztlan, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1982.
“Community Development and Educational Accountability,” with Angel Noe Gonzalez in Perspectives on Contemporary Native American and Chicano Educational Thought, Joshua Reichert and Miguel Trujillo, eds. Fresno: D.Q.U. Press, 1973.
“22 Miles,” in Luis Omar Salinas and Lillian Faderman, From the Barrio: A Chicano Anthology, San Francisco: Canfield Press, 1973.
“A Letter to the President,” in Manifesto Addressed to the President of the United States for the Youth of America, Alan Rinzler, ed., New York: The Macmillan Co., 1970.
“A Partial History of Violence Against La Raza,” www.latinopia.com June 5, 2022.
“Foreword,” in Amy Aldridge-Sanford, Developing a Social Justice Orientation: Moving From Thought to Action, San Diego, CA: Cognella, Inc., 2020.
“Pathways in Oral History: Jose Angel Gutierrez”, Editors, US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal, Vol 4. 2020.
“Forward to the Past: ‘That’s the Way it Is!’” two-part essay on post-General Election 2016 Returns. See somosescrito.com/2016/
“The Chicano Movement: Paths to Power,” The Social Studies, 102: 1, 25-32, January 2011.
“Mexican Birthdays: Independence and Revolution, 1810-1910,” The Social Studies, 101: 6, 225-231, November 2010.
“Qué Onda Eso de Tejano?” in PUENTES: Revista Mexico-Chicana de Literatura, Cultura, y Arte, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Texas, No. 6, fall 2008.
“The Legacy of the Chicano Movement,” in PUENTES: Revista Mexico-Chicana de Literatura, Cultura, y Arte, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Texas, No. 5, fall 2007.
“Latinas and Deadly Sex: The Politics of HIV/AIDS Reporting,” co-authored with Britt Rios-Ellis, The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Vol. 2, Number 3, Spring 2007.
“Hacia un solo Mexico,” in Los Mexicanos de aqui y de alla: ¿perspectivas en comun? Complilador Roger Diaz de Cossio, Fundación de Solidaridad Mexicano Americana, A.C y Senado de la Republica, Mexico D. F. Mexico, noviembre 2004.
“Chicanas in Texas Politics,” with Rebecca E. Deen, JSRI Occasional Paper #66, The Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, October 2000.
“Binacionalismo en el siglo XXI. Chicanos y Mexicanos en los Estados Unidos,” in Identidades. Fondo Editorial Huaxyacac, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. Julio 2000.
“Experiences of Chicana County Judges in Texas Politics: In Their Own Words,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 20:1, Spring 1999.
“Los dos Mexicos,” Extensiones: Revista Interdisciplinaria de la Universidad Intercontinental, Vol. 4, Nos.1 y 2., 1997.
“A Model to Improve the Utilization of Health and Social Services in Latino Communities,” with Pedro Lecca, Journal of Health and Social Policy. Fall 1997.
“A Comprehensive Model Approach for Colleges and Universities Minority Student Recruitment and Retention Programs,” with Pedro Lecca, Hispanic Outlook on Hispanic Education, October 13, 1995.
“Cesar Chavez Estrada: The First and Last of the Chicano Leaders,” San Jose Studies XX, No. 2. Spring 1994.
“Third Party Candidates and Grassroots Empowerment,” Peacework, 243:14, July- August 1994.
“The Legacy of Cesar E. Chavez in His Own Words,” Barrio Station, Inc. San Diego, California, March 18, 2021.
“Conversation Over Chunky Sanchez Documentary,” with Dolores Huerta, Paul Sandoval, producer, United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, Chicago, Illinois, February 19, 2021.
“Chicano Politics: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” Latino Studies Program Series, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, February 2, 2021.
El Impacto Historico de la Revolucion Mexicana Para El Pueblo Mexicano en Estados Unidos, a power point presentation with lecture, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California in collaboration with California Mexico Study Center, Long Beach, California, November 20, 2020.
Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos; Analisis politico de sus implicaciones, a power point presentation with lecture, Colegio de Frontera Norte (COLEF), Tijuana, Baja California, November 9, 2020.
“You Did What?” a short story about a protest at state capitol in Austin, Texas, The Texas Observer, Honorable Mention award for best short story on civic action. November 2020.
Surveillance Studies, seminar presented to participants of Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, October 20, 2020.
“Paint the White House Brown by 2040-50,” Power point presentation with lecture, University of Wisconsin-Parkside as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, October 2, 2020.
“Hidden Histories: FBI Files on Cesar Chavez and Reies Lopez Tijerina,” Power point with lecture, University of Wisconsin-Parkside as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, September 30, 2020.
“The Eagle Has Eyes,” talk on FBI files on Cesar Chavez via Texas Public Radio 89.1, San Antonio, Texas, March 6, 2020.
Entries for World and its Peoples, London: Brown Reference Group, 2008. Three entries; and reviewer of articles on Mexico and Central America.
Entries for Hispanic American Biographies, London: Brown Reference Group, 2007. Thirty-one (31) entries.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, eds. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonzalez. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Six (6) entries: Plan de Aztlan, Ramon “Tiaguis” Perez, Intercultural Development Research Associates (IDRA), Lopez v. Union Tank Car Co., Lopez v. Seccombe, and Machado v. Goodman.
Video Ethnographic Interviews. Grants funded for Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project in Texas with partial funding on hand to begin work summer 2015 from Brown Foundation and Summerlee Foundation. A compilation of first-person narratives on civil rights activities by African Americans, Chicanos, and others in Texas during the late 1950s to 1990s. Collaborative effort by faculty from Texas Christian University, University of North Texas and from University of Texas Arlington, Dr. Marvin Dulaney and myself. Served as codirector until fall 2015.
Subjects were 195 Mexican American and 9 Tejano Music Artists. The transcribed, soft and hardcover, and videotaped interviews were placed with the Special Collections Department, General Library, University of Texas- Arlington. Seventy-seven of the Mexican American Public Figures interviews were digitized and available on the Internet as Tejano Voices at http://libraries.uta.edu/tejanovoices/
Video Ethnographic Interviews. Subjects were 14 African American Public Figures. The transcribed, soft and hardcover, and videotaped interviews were placed with the Special Collections Department, General Library, University of Texas-Arlington. Title of this archive is Significant African American Public Figures in Texas at https://rc.library.uta
Video Ethnographic Interviews. Subjects were 9 Mexican Americans residing in New Mexico that are members of the Reies Lopez Tijerina family and or participants in events in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico during the late 1960s. The transcribed, soft cover and videotaped interviews were placed with the Center for Regional Studies, Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico. Completed on August 15, 2000.
U.S. Army, 277th Combat Engineers, San Antonio, Texas, Honorable Discharge, July 31, 1974, not protected status, no disability.
B3 person, Spanish and English-Biliterate, Bilingual, Bicultural
Available on request.
The Greater Dallas Legal and Community Development Foundation can be reached by mail at 429 W. 12th St. Dallas, Tx 75208 and by appointment by calling Dr. Gutierrez at his mobile telephone number: 469 867 8199 or Main Office 214 941 1900
