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n o t e s uuu introdUction 1. When i refer to an academic program or center, rather than the ethnic group, i will employ the adjective Chicana/o, which has become standard procedure within the discipline. At present the tendency within the academic discipline, especially among female scholars, is to employ the gender-neutral but grammatically awkward Chicana/os (or Chicano/as) as a term of reference for the ethnic community generally, both men and women. Writing for a boarder audience than just colleagues in academe, i prefer the older self-referent, Chicanos. in my work the term Chicanos should be understood to mean both men and women, unless i indicate otherwise. When i wish to specify males i will use a term like Chicano men; to specify females, i will of course use the term Chicanas. By their nature, ethnic terms are imprecise. in general, their true meaning can be understood by their context. 2. deena J. González, Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820–1880 (new york: oxford University Press, 1999), p. 121. 3. consult appendix A for a list of annual nAccs scholar of the year honorees. 4. Among the most prominent Latino exceptions today are ralph H. Vigil, Gilbert r. cruz, and félix d. Almaráz, the biographer of the pioneer Latino scholar of the spanish Borderlands , carlos eduardo castañeda. While Latino colonialists remain a small minority, their ranks seem to be growing during the last two decades. 5. in May 2007 there were only 243 faculty members among the 519 dues-paying members of nAccs, according to its newsletter, Noticias de NACCS 36 (summer 2007): 13. 6. see Professor Acuña’s revealing interview in José calderón, “‘We Have the tiger by the tail’: An interview with rudy Acuña,” Colorlines 2 (summer 1999): 21. 7. for recent examples, see Armando navarro, Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlán: Struggles and Change (Walnut creek, calif.: AltaMira Press, 2005), and George Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: A Study of the Chicano Movement (Albuquerque: University of new Mexico Press, 2005). 8. see ríos-Bustamante, “General survey of chicano/a Historiography,” in Voices of a New Chicana/o History, ed. refugio i. rochín and dennis n. Valdés (east Lansing: Michigan state University Press, 2000), pp. 245–93, which includes a comprehensive catalogue of virtually all previous historiographic literature on Mexican Americans. for other useful bibliographies on the twentieth century, see Mexican American Voices, ed. steven Mintz (st. James, n.y.: Brandywine Press, 2000), pp. 227–53, and Manuel Gonzales, “Bibliographic essay” in En Aquel Entonces: Readings in Mexican-American History, ed. Manuel G. Gonzales and cynthia M. Gonzales (Bloomington: indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 271–77. for an update of more recent work on Mexican Americans, see the bibliography in the revised edition of Arnoldo de León and richard Griswold del castillo, North to Aztlán: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (Wheeling, ill.: Harlan davidson, 2006), as well as my own bibliography in this volume. 9. this Marxist orientation informs my recent work, written in collaboration with legal scholar richard delgado, The Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race, and the Media uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu notes to Pages 5–22 314 to Win (Boulder, colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2006). for a solid Marxian interpretation of the Mexicano experience in the United states, devoid of ideological baggage, see yolanda Alaníz and Megan cornish, Viva La Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance (seattle, Wash.: red Letter Press, 2008). 10. dennis n. Valdés and refugio i. rochín, “the fruitless search for a chicana/o Paradigm,” in Voices of a New Chicana/o History, p. ix. 11. see the lengthy review of Mexicanos by Patricia M. Perea and Hector A. torres, Aztlán 28 (spring 2003): 211–29. for other criticisms of my work by chicano scholars, see the John chávez review of Mexicanos in The Journal of American History 87 (June 2000): 190–91, and Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun, p. 286 n52. 12. rodolfo f . Acuña, “truth and objectivity in chicano History,” in Voices of a New Chicana/o History, p. 36. 13. Mark Mcdonald, “term Limits: Hispanic? Latino? A national debate Proves no one name Pleases everyone,” Dallas Morning News, 13 Jan. 1993. 1. sPAniArds And nAtiVe AMericAns, PreHistory–1521 1. richard Herr, Spain (englewood cliffs, n.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971), p. 36...