Miroslava Chávez-García is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[1] Chávez-García's research focuses on Chicana/o history, eugenics, gender, and juvenile justice.
[2] Chávez-García has authored three books: Negotiating Conquest (Tucson, 2004),[3] States of Delinquency (Berkeley, 2012),[4] and Migrant Longing (Chapel Hill, 2018).
[5] Her second work, States of Delinquency, was considered a groundbreaking text, describing California's eugenic program, which targeted young Mexican American and African American boys for irreversible sterilizations.
[6] Chávez-García was born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico to farm worker parents.