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Contributors Brenda d. Arellano, a native of New Mexico, graduated from the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her main areas of research include work on the achievement gap of Latino and language-minority students. Her dissertation focuses on understanding the impact of parental involvement in the achievement of languageminority Latino students in early elementary school. In addition, Arellano Anguiano has worked as a teaching assistant in both the Departments of Chicano and Chicana Studies and Black Studies at the University of California , Santa Barbara. She hopes that one day her work will lead her back home, where she can contribute to the understanding and improvement of Chicano students’ academic performance. Leo R. Chavez is a professor of anthropology at the University of California , Irvine. His research examines various issues related to transnational migration, including immigrant families and households, labor market participation , motivations for migration, the use of medical services, and media constructions of immigrant and nation. He is the author of Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, 1997), which provides an ethnographic account of Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants in San Diego County, California, and Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (University of California Press, 2001), which is the culmination of his interest in the ways immigrants are represented in the media and popular discourse in the United States. 244 Contributors Yvette G. Flores is a professor at the University of California, Davis as well as a research psychologist and licensed psychologist. She has done postdoctoral work in health psychology, in particular in substance abuse treatment outcome research and intimate partner violence. Her current research examines intimate partner violence among Mexicans on both sides of the border. She is also part of a NIA-funded study of care giving among spouses and adult children of Anglo and Latino elderly with dementia, and a NIMH-funded study of HIV prevention among sex workers along the U.S.– Mexico border. Her publications reflect her life’s work of bridging clinical psychology and Chicano/Latino studies, as she foregrounds gender, ethnicity, and sexualities in her clinical, teaching, and research practices. Ramón A. Gutiérrez is the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many publications, among them Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (1998), Mexican Home Altars (1997), When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (1991), and is currently working on a synthetic history of the Chicano movement. Aída Hurtado is professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of Texas, Pan American, and her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan. Her main areas of expertise are in the study of social identity (including ethnic identity), Latino educational issues, and feminist theory. Her books include The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism (University of Michigan Press, 1996); Voicing Feminisms: Young Chicanas Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity (New York University Press, 2003, honorable mention for the 2003 Myers Outstanding Book Awards given by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America); Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (coedited with Gabriela Arredondo, Norma Klahn, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, and Patricia Zavella, Duke University Press, 2003). Her latest book is Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society. ¿Quién soy? ¿Quiénes somos? (coauthored with Patricia Gurin, University of Arizona Press, 2004). Olga Nájera-Ramírez is professor in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. Author of La Fiesta de los Tastoanes: Critical Perspectives in a Mexican Festival Performance, she also produced the award-winning video, “La Charreada: Rodeo a la Mexicana.” Her most recent work includes two coedited volumes, Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change (University of [54.167.52.238] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 17:24 GMT) Contributors 245 Illinois Press, 2002) and Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Duke University Press, 2003). Chon A. Noriega is professor in the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, and director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. He is author of...