David Montejano is professor emeritus of ethnic studies and history at UC Berkeley. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Professor Montejano received his PhD in sociology from Yale University. In the years that followed, he held faculty positions at UC Berkeley, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Texas, Austin. He returned to Berkeley in 2002. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he is the author of many publications within the field of Chicana/o studies, including: "Frustrated Apartheid: Race, Repression, and Capitalist Agriculture in South Texas" (1979); Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (1987); Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century (1999); "The Beating of Private Aguirre: A Story about West Texas in World War II" (2005); Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981 (2010); and Sancho's Journal: Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets (2012). In this interview, Professor Montejano discusses: his family background and upbringing; his educational journey from high school to attending University of Texas, Austin; his participation and thoughts on Chicano activism; his graduate experience at Yale and getting established in the academy; the Chicano Political Economy Collective at Berkeley; his reflections on the state of Chicana/o studies during the early years and how the field evolved over the decades; the aims and contributions of his scholarship to the field; developing the Top Ten Percent Plan in Texas; the reception of Chicana/o studies in higher education and at the universities he served; as well as his thoughts on important works, themes, and high points in the field's development over the last fifty years.