A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy Over "Whiteness"

Acknowledgments

xv Acknowledgments a great many people contributed to this work. first, i want to thank Professors F. Arturo Rosales and the late Noel J. Stowe. This book would not exist had it not been for the support and encouragement of Arturo Rosales. First, he provided the foundation of this research when he gave me the Andrade file as a dissertation topic. Second, even several years after I completed my degree from Arizona State University, Arturo continued to send me information to feed the fire that drove me to work on this, despite my full-time teaching load at a nonresearch institution. Although Noel Stowe’s contribution ended when I completed at ASU, his influence on my development there shaped this book. He helped me to grow a strong sense of public and policy history, which helps to explain how this research ended up in the arena of policy analysis. I also must thank Gregory Rodríguez, Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington, DC, and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times opinion section. One of the “reminders” from Arturo Rosales that kept me working on this project was Rodríguez’s book, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America (2007). Arturo was the first to notice that several pages of his book summarized and cited my dissertation . About five minutes after I e-mailed Mr. Rodríguez to thank him for taking note of my work and utilizing so much of it, xvi acknowledgments he telephoned me to talk about our respective works, and he also encouraged me to continue the process of publishing my findings. Along the way, several scholars read drafts of this work and provided invaluable feedback. Professor Thomas Guglielmo of George Washington University was one of the earliest. Tom’s feedback helped place this work within the greater context, but, more important , he opened my eyes to the Nationality Act of 1940, Section 303 of which was a direct result of the State Department’s efforts to counter the Andrade ruling. Thanks, Tom. I would have missed that one without your feedback. Needing a legal scholar’s point of view, I asked Professors Guadalupe Luna of the Northern Illinois University College of Law and Richard Delgado of the Seattle University School of Law if they could read and comment on a later draft. I want to thank Professor Luna for her support overall, and for helping me fine-tune some of the legal aspects of this work, and for pointing me toward a few additional scholars whose work was quite useful. Although Professor Delgado declined due to time constraints, I would still like to thank him for his encouragement and willingness to consider my request. Finally, I would like to thank the anonymous peer reviewers selected by the University of Arizona Press for their comments, criticisms , and advice, and especially for their support of this publication . Research at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library was made possible in part by financial support from the Graduate Research Support Program at Arizona State University. a quiet victory for latino rights ...