Gracias: Acknowledgments

Gracias to all whose labor of mind, body, and spirit made possible the Gender on the Borderlands Seminar and Conference at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Tejas, July 12-14, 2001. An institutional grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities provided the funds to sponsor the seminar for St. Mary's faculty and professional staff, as well as to meet conference expenses. St. Mary's University provided outstanding institutional support. Gracias to visual artist Alma López for her powerful art, and to Claudia Rodríguez for bodily representing gender on the borderlands in López's work—part of her 1848 series—which graced the cover of the conference brochure and program. Gracias to Jen Simmons for the design of the call for proposals brochure. Gracias to the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and to Hispanas Unidas for the photographic exhibit Mujeres de San Antonio, and to the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and Dr.Gwendolyn Díaz of St. Mary's University for sharing the Latina Letters Conference space. Gracias, most especially, to the Conference Committee: Mercedes Elías, Mariulu AbiRached-Reyna, Sylvia Y. Acosta, Cristina Domínguez, and Patricia Mejía. Cory Elías, a middle school student in 2001, and Mercedes Olivia Elías and Stacy Rader, then in high school, immeasurably added to the Committee's labor power before and during the conference. We dedicate this volume to their generation.