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Acknowledgments Marc Zimmerman IwishtoacknowledgethehelpofNicolásKanellos and his staff at Arte Público Press for finding key materials and scanning many photos from José’s private collection. Thanks to Mario Castillo, Jeff Huebner, Lennie Domínguez, and Gilberto Cárdenas, as well as José’s former wife (and my former colleague), Mary Kay Vaughan, and members of his immediate family—above all, his daughter, Alicia, and his brother-in-law, Cayetano García—for providing and preparing key materials. Also I wish to thank Paul Lister for transcribing most of the tapes; thanks to Elizabeth Cummins for her transcription of the first González tape; and to my granddaughter, Jacqueline Javior, for transcribing a final tape on MARCH. IalsowanttothanktheChicagophotographer JimPrinzforhisdigitalphotographsofJosé’sartwork and related materials. Thanks to the Small GrantsProgramoftheUniversityofHoustonfor providing funds for the photos, transcription, indexes, and other costs. Thanks to my staff in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages —to Maricela Villanueva and, above all, xvi Acknowledgments to Flor Velásquez, who deserves credit for her help in inserting José’s original corrections of the interviews,forworkingonJosé’smanyhandwrittenadditionstotheinterviewtranscriptions ,and for many other key tasks she carried out. Thanks toTiffanyJaviorandMarquesaMacadarfortheir “volunteer” photographing help. Thanks also to Joan Catapano, Rebecca McNulty, Tad Ringo, and other staff members at the University of Illinois Press for their work in seeing this volume through to the end. Thanks to the readers of this text for the University of Illinois Press; their encouraging words and insights helped shape the final version of the book. Thanks also to Frances Aparicio, the director of the Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest Series, for her encouragement and for enabling me to see that cutting materials made this book more focused. I am responsible for the final editing and form that the interviews took as I shaped them into a volume that I believe tells José’s story as well as I could tell it. ...

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