Publications

Books

Toppling the Melting Pot: Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016)

Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008)

Book Chapters

“Pacifism as Pathology.” In The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Edited by Andrew Fiala. (New York: Routledge, 2018).

“Pragmatism, Interculturalism, and the Transformation of American Democracy.” In Pragmatism and the Hispanic World. Edited by Gregory Pappas. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010)

“Cesar Chavez and Principled Nonviolence.” In Nonviolence in Theory and Practice. Edited by Robert L. Holmes and Barry Gan. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2004.

“‘Everybody in the Barrios is a Nationalist’: Chicanismo and the Limits of the Politics of Recognition.” In Community, Difference, and Diversity: Implications for Peace. Edited by Alison Bailey and Paula Smithka. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2002.

“Post-Socialist Prophecy: Latin America and the Future of Progressive Politics.” In The Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternative Political Cultures, edited by Steve Martinot, with Joy James and Jeffrey Parker. Vol. 2, Radical Philosophy Today. New York: Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2001.

Journal Articles

“The Solace of Mexican Philosophy in the Age of Trump” APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy. Vol. 16. No. 2 (Spring 2017) 2-4.

“Abolition as a Morally Responsible Response to Riots: Lessons from Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez”. The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence. Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2. (Fall/Winter 2016-2017) 15-30.

“The Philosophical Gift of Brown Folks: Mexican American Philosophy in the United States.” APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy. Vol. 15. No. 2 (Spring 2016). 23-28.

“The Chemical Red Line” Revista Etsakupani Internacional. (Mexico) Vol. 3. No. 22 (October 2013), 10-11.

“Jose Vasconcelos, White Supremacy, and the Silence of American Pragmatism.” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 2. No. 2. (December 2011) 1-13.

“Aliens and Neighbors: Jane Addams and the Reframing of Illegal Immigation”. Radical Philosophy Review. Vol. 14. No. 1, 207-215.

“Frontiers of Democracy: Domingo Sarmiento and Josiah Royce on the Geography of Self-Governing Communities.” The Pluralist. Vol. 6, No. 3. (Fall 2011) 93-102.

“Defending the Great Community: Royce’s Concept of Humanitarian Intervention.” Transactions of the Charles Pierce Society. Vol 46, No. 2 (April 2011), 266-281.

“The Ethics of Diversity: Interview with Lani Roberts.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World. Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 2009),

“Upholding the Laws of All the Greeks: Lessons on Humanitarian Interventionfrom Euripides.” Review Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 6, Part 2 (2008), pp. 80-95.

“Comment on Jorge Valadez’s ‘Immigration and the Territorial Powers of Nation States’.” APA Newsletter on Hispanics/Latinos in Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2008) pp. 13-16.

“Pilgrimage, Penitence, and Revolution: Immigration and the Building of an American Culture of Peace in the Thought of Cesar Chavez”, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2007) pp. 38-49.

“Neighborhood Democracy and Chicana/o Cultural Citizenship in Armando Rendon’s Chicano Manifesto.” Ethics, Place and the Environment, Vol 10. No. 2, (June 2007), pp. 121-139.

“Cosmopolitan Loyalty and the Great Global Community.” Kettering Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 18-27.

“Cosmopolitan Loyalty and the Great Global Community: Royce’s Globalization.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Fall 2003), pp. 204-215.

“Martin Luther King Jr.’s Conception of Freedom and Radical Democracy.” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 386-401.

Book Reviews

Review of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, by Miriam Pawel. Journal of American History, Vol. 102, No. 1 (September 2015), 624.

No More Fight Left in the Fields: Review of Trampling out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers by Frank Bardacke. Radical Philosophy Review. Vol. 15, No. 2 (2012) 403-407

Review of Latinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity by Jorge Gracia. Camino Real. Vol 2, No. 1 (2009), pp. 145-146.

Review of Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa by Jacques Levy. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas, Volume 39, (November 2008), pp. 95-96.

Review of The Religious Vision of Reies Lopez Tijerina by Rudy V. Bustos. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas, Volume 37, (November 2006), pp. 107-108.

Review of Latin American Philosophy: An Introduction with Readings by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay. APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Volume 03, No. 2 (Spring 2004), p. 24.

Review of Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective by Jorge Gracia. Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, No. 89 (July 2001),59-62.

“‘Grasping for Utopia,’ Review of Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the ‘Postsocialist’ Condition by Nancy Fraser.” Radical Philosophy Review, 2, no. 2 (1999).

Encyclopedia Entries

“Cesar Chavez” The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. Edited by John Stone, Rutlege Dennis, Polly Rizove and Anthony D. Smith.