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Acknowledgments It would be impossible for me to acknowledge in this limited space all those to whom I am indebted for helping to bring this project to fruition. This book is truly the labor of a multitude of colleagues, friends, professionals, and loved ones who guided, supported, encouraged, and inspired me over the last several years. However, here I want to publicly acknowledge some of the individuals and groups that have been instrumental in helping me to complete this project. I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to a number of wonderful colleagues, teachers , and friends for their help throughout the development of this book. I am immeasurably indebted to Dr. Vanessa B. Beasley, who has invaluably contributed to my writing, thinking, teaching, and professional development. Most of all, I am grateful to her for being the model of an engaged scholar, mentor, and friend. I also thank a number of other teachers who helped me to ask hard questions and to expand my thinking. Thanks to Dr. Celeste M. Condit, Dr. Kevin M. DeLuca, Dr. Bonnie J. Dow, Dr. Thomas M. Lessl, Dr. John M. Murphy, Dr. Edward M. Panetta, and Dr. Pamela Voekel. I would also like to thank my colleagues while at Northeastern University for their continued support during the completion of this book. I am especially grateful to Dr. Greg Goodale and Dr. Thomas K. Nakayama for their generosity and kindness. Both of them were wonderful colleagues, volunteering to read, discuss, and comment on many of the chapters in this book, and they continue to be great friends. Finally, I should thank other friends and colleagues who have helped me develop this project through less formal but no less significant ways. In particular, to Dr. Matthew P. Brigham, Dr. D. Robert DeChaine, Dr. Anne T. Demo, Dr. Eric S. Jenkins, Dr. Kristen L. McCauliff, and Dr. Darrel Allan Wanzer—thank you. I have been honored to present some of the ideas in this book at conferences, talks, and writing workshops throughout the last few years. These discussions have been a true joy and have greatly enhanced the arguments in this book. In particular, I thank the members of the Athens of America Rhetoric Reading Group (AARRG!) in Boston for reading and commenting on early versions of chapter 3. Thanks are due to the participants in the 2010 Summer Workshop on Critical Latina/o Communication Studies at the University of North Texas (organized by Dr. Darrel Allan Wanzer), who discussed some of the ideas in chapter 2 with me. I have also pre- xiv | Acknowledgments sented selections from this book in front of audiences at the University of Minnesota and Wake Forest University in the last several years; I am honored to have had those opportunities and very grateful to these audiences for their engagement with my work. In addition, conference reviewers and audiences at the National Communication Association, the Rhetoric Society of America, the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, and the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas have all listened to and commented on my work. Parts of the book have been previously published. Chapter 3 is an expanded version of an article that appeared as “(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Citizenship in La Gran Marcha” in the Quarterly Journal of Speech 97, no. 1 (2011): 26–49. Some portions of the introduction and chapter 2 appeared in slightly different form in the article “Reclaiming the Rhetoric of Reies López Tijerina: Border Identity and Agency in ‘The Land Grant Question,’” published in Communication Quarterly 60, no. 5 (2012): 561–87. I thank Taylor and Francis for granting permission to reprint portions of these essays. Research professionals have greatly supported this project and often do not get the credit they deserve for their tremendous work. I am grateful to librarians at Northeastern University and the University of Georgia, who helped to point me in new directions and broaden my conversation with relevant literature. I also thank the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico Libraries for permission to publish material from their Reies Tijerina Papers. The staff was absolutely wonderful during my time there: in particular, Ann Massmann and Nancy BrownMartinez , who were immensely helpful in orienting me during what was my very first visit to the archives and who also engaged me in conversations about chapter 2 that significantly improved the final argument. It has been a joy to work with the editorial staff...

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