User:Kenneth Burt
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Kenneth Burt is the political director of the
California Federation of Teachers and the author of
the forthcoming book, The Search for a Civic Voice:
California Latino Politics (2007), with a foreward by
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Educated at
Berkeley and Harvard, Burt has published essays in
several anthologies and academic journals, and has
presented at numerous conferences. He publishes an
on-line column at CaliforniaProgressReportc.com. He
came across Citizendium by chance: the paper on the
"CIO" cites his article "Latino Empowerment in Los
Angeles:Postwar Dreams and Cold War Fears, 1948-1952,"
in Labors Heritage, 1996 8(1). Burt's historical
interests are in Latinos, Jews, labor and California
history. For more information go to
www.KennethBurt.com