The Portal to Texas History 2025 Research Fellowship Awardee
Matt Hinojosa
Project Title
The Latino Color Line in the Age of Urban Crisis: Rebellion and the Struggle Against Police Brutality, 1950s-1980s
Project Description
My dissertation takes a comparative approach to the history of postwar Texas Chicano and Northeastern Puerto Rican community-police relations. By centering Latinos, my research offers a reevaluation of the history of US policing, arguing that police brutality was a central concern of the long Latino Civil Rights Movement.
Biography
Matt Hinojosa (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University and a visiting scholar in the Mexican American & Latina/o Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in US nineteenth and twentieth-century history, history of race & ethnicity, and urban studies, with an emphasis on twentieth-century US Chicano and Latino social movements.
Matt is a proud first-generation college student and community college alumnus from San Antonio, Texas. After receiving an AA from Northwest Vista College, he received dual BAs in Anthropology and Mexican American Studies and an MA in History from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and an MA in History from Princeton University.
His dissertation focuses on post-WWII community-police relations in US mainland Chicana/o and Puerto Rican communities, centering Latinas/os, the Latino Civil Rights Movement, and Latino radicalism in the history of US policing.
