"My First Lessons in Chicano History Were Heard at the Kitchen Table": An Interview with Gilbert G. Gonzalez.

An interview with Chicano/Latino studies professor Gilbert G. Gonzalez is presented. He shares how his family's history as part of Chicano/a and U.S. history, shapes his research and teaching. He talks about his aim to educate by drawing on student's histories and connecting them to a larger historical patterns. Gonzalez sheds light on the power of listening to and learning from family experiences, of connecting the past to the present, of thinking transnationally and of putting Chicana/o education, labor and migration in the context of U.S. empire.