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vii Acknowledgments In a study that spans twenty-five years, it is difficult to acknowledge the magnitude of love, support, and ideas I have received from others. Foremost, I want to thank my mother, father, sisters, brother, brothers-in-law, nieces, and nephews, and my husband for their unfailing love and support. I dedicate this book to all of you. I also want to thank David’s family for their love and support. My family has played a special role in this study. Mil gracias, mami, for being involved in the first phase and for helping me open so many doors. I love you, Francesca, Roy, Madelene, Jeanette, Cristian, Elliot, and Kim for always being there for me. A special hug to Jeanette and Elliot, whose love and encouragement sustained my spirits throughout this project. Elliot, thank you for your hard work and patience in creating the genealogical charts in this book. I would also like to thank Kristi Long and Adi Hovav for their editorial support. I am also grateful for the love and friendship of many dear friends. Thank you Jóse Sanchez and Alice Colón for being there at every stage of this work and for the countless stimulating ideas we shared. I would also like to thank Rosalind Petchesky, Karen Sacks, Ruth Zambrana, and Mike Rose for reading an earlier version of my work. Lynn Chancer, thank you for your advice and sustaining friendship, especially during the final stage of this book. Other good friends that have always supported my work and believed this project would some day come to a happy completion are Julia Andino, Patricia Antoniello, Nilda and Paul Bloomberg, Arlene Dávila, Sean Krebs, Ana Maria Morales, Luchi Sanchez, Carol Smith, and Barbara Winslow. A special thanks to Barbara for the many weekends you provided your friends with a space to write at “Barbara’s Bellagio Retreat.” I would also like to acknowledge and thank Jody Carlson for her generous heart in helping me develop the methodology for this study. I also want to thank las mujeres from our Latina feminist group for viii acknowledgments their camaraderie and friendship. My students and colleagues have also been a source of support for me at City College. Leith Mullings, you are a beaming light in my life. Thank you for paving the path for me and other women of color to walk on. I also want to remember the late Elliot Skinner for his kindness and courage. I am also fortunate to have been the recipient of a postdoctoral award from the Ford Fellowships Program. I want to thank the former director Tom Rozzell and his amazing staff; Christine O’Brien, the perpetual guardian angel of the Ford Fellows; Joan Rosenthal; Margaret Petrochenkov; and others who have been part of the Ford family for many years. I would also like to acknowledge the PSC/CUNY Faculty Research Program and the Intercambio Program at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies for the research support they have given me. My husband, David, has also played a major role in encouraging me to bring this book to its final stage. I thank you for sharing your love and ideas with me and for patiently reading and editing countless drafts of this manuscript. If that isn’t love I don’t know what is. Last but certainly not least, gracias to the women and their families in this ethnography and to the hundreds of women I have worked with in the past that have made this journey a true inspiration. ...