Jose Palafox
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Jose Palafox is a writer, filmmaker, activist, and hardcore punk musician.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal History
He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and grew up in San Diego, California.
[edit] Musical history
He played drums in the 1990's political hardcore punk band Struggle, who released records on Ebullition Records, as well as in the Swing Kids on Three One G Records, to which he introduced a unique jazz-influenced drumming style. The band helped to define was has come to be called the 'San Diego sound', though many of the bands this label describes reject it. He later played in Bread and Circuits and Yaphet Kotto. In 2005, he and Mike Kirsch (Fuel, Torches to Rome, [Bread and Circuits]) started a new project called "Baader Brains," a tribute to the 1970's German urban guerrila group, the Red Army Faction (RAF).
[edit] Professional and Academic History
His film and writing have focussed on issues of migration, specifically relating to the US-Mexico border and its militarization. In 2001, he was the associate producer the 28 minute documentary New World Border.
He has published articles in Covert Action Quarterly, ColorLines, Z Magazine, Borderlines, SF Bay Guardian, and Maximum RocknRoll.
He is a currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He has taught in Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Mills College, UC Santa Cruz and University of San Francisco.
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