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Stephen J. Pitti

Stephen J. Pitti is Professor of History and American Studies, and the Director of the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program. The author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican Americans, and Northern California (2003), he teaches graduate seminars on the history of Latinos, comparative civil rights movements, and race relations in the American West, and he is currently at work on a biography of Cesar Chavez and on a study of deportations and repatriations from California.