Tomás Almaguer is professor emeritus and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Born and raised in the working-class community of Moorpark, California, Professor Almaguer received his PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley in 1979. In the years that followed, he held faulty positions at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and the University of Michigan, where as the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor he served as Director of the Latino Studies Program. He came to San Francisco State as Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies in 2000. He is the author of many publications within the field of Chicana/o Studies, such as: "Towards The Study of Chicano Internal Colonialism" (1971); "Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior" (1991); "Between the Material and Cultural World of Latino Gay Men" (2011); "The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the United States" (2012); as well as books, Racial Fault Lines: the Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California (1994), and The New Latino Studies Reader (2016). In this interview, Professor Almaguer discusses: his family background and upbringing; his educational journey from high school and junior college to attending UC Santa Barbara; his graduate experience at UC Berkeley and establishing himself as a Chicano scholar; 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 in the field; the reception of Chicana/o Studies 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.