Special thanks go to Gerardo Aldana, Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval,
Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Leo Chavez, Ramon Gutiérrez, David Horn,
Rudy Torres, the anonymous reviewers at Blackwell, and my colleagues
in Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
They all, in different ways, contributed greatly to this project. I would
also like to thank audiences at the various institutions where I pre￾sented portions of the book: the Latina/o Studies Program at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Center for the Study of
Race and Ethnicity at the University of California, San Diego; the
Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa
Barbara; and the Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State
University. Many thanks go to Jane Huber and Emily Martin at
Blackwell for their enthusiastic support of the project. Finally, I owe a
great debt to the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. I started writing
the book while on a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC San
Diego and continued to work on it as a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow at
UC Irvine