Column: Cruising into the mainstream with a lowrider professor
- Posted on February 12, 2025
- By Los Angeles Times
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Column: Cruising into the mainstream with a lowrider professor
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Denise Sandoval, who has taught at Cal State Northridge since 2002, is perhaps the premier scholar on lowrider culture and also an exemplar of what an academic should be.