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c o n t r ib u t o r s Ricardo Ainslie is a native of Mexico City, Mexico. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin where he is a Fellow in the Charles H. Spence Centennial Professorship in Education. He is also an Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Mexican American Studies and the American Studies Program at the University of Texas. Drawing from psychoanalysis as well as books, articles, and film, his work explores the intersection of individual psychology, social processes, and culture. He has published articles and books on the psychodynamics of culture, the psychology of the immigrant experience, and “cultural mourning.” His documentary films include Looking North: Mexican Images of Immigration (2006) and Ya Basta (a 2007 film about crime in Mexico in the wake of the country’s transition to democracy). His most recent book is The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico’s Drug War. María de Los Angeles Torres is director and professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She taught political science at DePaul University in Chicago from 1987 to 2005. She was a faculty associate at Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, 2000–2001 and was a research fellow at Chapin Hall University of Chicago 2002. She is the author of two books, The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the US and the Promise of a Better Future (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004) and In the Land of Mirrors: 469 470 ■ Contributors The Politics of Cuban Exiles in the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999). She also edited By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys in and Out of Exile (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002) and co-edited Borderless Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans , and the Paradox of Interdependence (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998). A co-authored book, Citizens in the Present: Civically Engaged Youth in Three American Cities: Chicago, Rio and Mexico City, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Manuel Avalos is Director of Research Partnerships and Innovation at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW). He is also a Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at UNCW. His academic research focuses on questions of racial inequality in the Americas and the political representation and incorporation of the Latino electorate at the state, local, and national levels. His publications include articles in Sociological Perspectives, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, and Policy Studies Journal as well as chapters in Roberto de Anda, ed., Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society, and Rodolfo de la Garza and Louis DeSipio, eds., Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics in the 1992 Elections, Awash in the Mainstream: Latino Politics in the 1996 Elections, and Muted Voices: Latino Politics in the 2000 Elections. Gilberto Cárdenas, the Executive Director of the IUPLR, is also Director of the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) and Assistant Provost at the University of Notre Dame. He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and holds the Julian Samora Chair in Latino Studies. Author of Los Mojados: The Wetback Story (University of Notre Dame Press), he is also the editor or coeditor of three other books, including Health and Social Services among International Labor Migrants (CMAS/University of Texas Press) and La Causa: Civil Rights and the Quest for Equality in the Midwest (Arte Público/University of Houston Press). Dr. Cárdenas is the author of several dozen articles and book chapters and twenty reports. He is currently the editor of the Latino Perspectives series of the University of Notre Dame Press, and he has served on the editorial boards of many journals. He has received grants from the Joyce Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Contributors ■ 471 the Kellogg Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ford Foundation , and the U.S. Department of Education. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. Marisol Cortez is a community scholar located in San Antonio, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of California...