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AcknowLeDgments Enrolling in graduate school at the University of Minnesota was a lifechanging decision, in large part because it allowed me to work with my advisor, Roderick Ferguson, and with Kevin P. Murphy. I owe Rod and Kevin many more thanks than I can enumerate here. Reluctantly , it will have to suffice to thank them for serving as my guides through academia and life. I also thank Louis Mendoza (who deserves an extra thanks for putting me in touch with the University of Texas Press), Edén Torres, Jennifer Pierce, and many other faculty members at the U for gently guiding me in the right directions throughout graduate school. Grad school friends also played a tremendous role in shaping how I think about the issues examined in this book, and I am grateful to Jenn Blair, Pamela Butler (who remained a friend and beloved colleague for three years at Notre Dame), Jill Doerfler, Anne Martínez (who also belongs in the mentor category), Matt Martinez, David Monteyne , Soojin Pate, Mary Rizzo, Heidi Stark, Amy Tyson, and many others who shared ideas and fun throughout our grad school years. I also need to thank Colleen Hennen for so many favors and laughs throughout the years. My training did not stopwhen I received my Ph.D. but has continued, thanks to the hard work of valued mentors who have continued to guide me through the process of establishing an academic career, especially Heidi Ardizzone, Laura Briggs, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, José Limón, David Serlin, Deborah R. Vargas, and the many fine folks involved with the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. Lynn Hudson and Jane Rhodes have shown me that the academic life can also be the good life. I thank them for their unending meals, laughs, and advice. I also thank George Lipsitz for reading and providing extensive feedback on Chapter Three. Members of my working group, namely, Amanda Ciafone, Dan Gilbert, Sarah Haley, Naomi Paik, and Shana Redmond, have offered friendship, inspiration, and critical but loving feedback. As my cofacilitators of the Newberry Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies, Gerry Cadava, John Alba Cutler, and Benjamin Johnson have also helped me conceptualize and articulate my ideas. Colleagues at Notre Dame, including my American Studies colleagues Annie Gilbert Coleman, Kathleen Sprows Cummings (and our beloved and life-saving “BC”), Erika Doss, Ben Giamo, xii AmericAns in the treAsure house Bob Schmuhl, and Sophie White, as well as Laurie Arnold, Jolene Bilinski , Tobias Boes, Gil Cardenas, Cynthia Velazquez Duarte, Ken Garcia, Karen Graubart, Tim Matovina, John McGreevy, Richard Pierce, Yael Prizant, and Katie Schlotfeldt from across the College of Arts and Letters , have provided endless measures of support. At Notre Dame, I am also grateful to the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and the Institute for Latino Studies for providing financial and intellectual support for this project. Kate Marshall at Notre Dame has been a friend, confidante, good neighbor, and camper all in one. Research for this project was funded in part by the Department of American Studies and the MacArthur Program at the University of Minnesota, the Getty Research Library, the Autry National Center, the Latino Studies Fellowship Program at the National Museum of American History, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Macalaster College and the Consortium for Faculty Diversity, and the Ford Foundation . I thank the many generous committee members and administrators who have invested in my work, especially Agustín Fuentes, the staff of the nmAh, and the many anonymous readers. I also thank the staff of the University of Texas Press, especially Nancy Bryan; Leslie Tingle; and the fabulous, legendary Theresa May, as well as the anonymous readers who suggested revisions that greatly strengthened this book. Andrew Deliyannides, who carefully edited the nearly complete manuscript, helping transform flabby prose, along with my graduate assistants Felicia Moralez and Melissa Dinsman, who helped me to prepare it for submission to the Press, deserve special praise, as does Nancy Warrington, who copyedited this book for the University of Texas Press. I am especially grateful to friends and family who have helped shape this book. My parents, Leon and Linda Ruiz, taught me the pleasure of travel early in life, showing me that a single tank of gas could lead to adventure. I thank them for that and just about everything else. I also thank my aunt Fran Hobson, cousin Heather Hobson, and grandmother Mary Lipka (born in 1918, near the end of the...

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