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Mike Davis

 

Life

 

Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Congress of Racial Equality andStudents for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist.He briefly studied at Reed College in the mid-1960s but did not begin his academic career in earnest until the early 1970s, when he earned BA and MA degrees but did not complete the PhD program in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Davis has stated that one of the moments prompting him returning to study after working was a violent strike, "I had this job with a bus-tour company when suddenly this insanely violent strike broke out. A strikebreaker ran a bus over one of our guys, and next thing I knew I was in a room with forty guys voting on whether each of us is gonna put up $400 to hire a hit man to kill the head of the strikebreakers. I said, 'Hey, guys, this is just crazy,' and made the best speech of my life. I was outvoted thirty-nine to one. I thought to myself, 'Typical American workers'; I think I said 'pussies.' Instead of coming up with a political strategy, they reach for their guns as soon as they see a scab driving their bus. And here I am about to become a freshman at UCLA, and I'm going to get arrested for criminal conspiracy." [1]

 

He was a 1996–1997 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute[2] and received a MacArthur Fellowship Award in 1998.[3] He won the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2007.

 

He is married to Mexican-American artist Alessandra Moctezuma and lives in San Diego, CA.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_(scholar)