City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California

Acknowledgments

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S My deepest thanks to Carrie Mullen, wherever you are, for encouraging me to start; Francisco H. Vázquez for your patient early readings; Rudy Torres for rescuing me near the end; and, above all, to Mary, Lucena, and Alexandra for putting up with me all the way through. Because the list of colleagues and institutions who lent me their generous support is too long to recite here, I only acknowledge the indispensables: my parents, who taught me faith and patience in the pursuit of justice; Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Michelle Habell-Pallan, Otto Santa Ana, and my former research fellows at UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Chicano Studies; Harry Gamboa, Ignacio López-Calvo, and my colleagues at Cal State LA’s American Communities Program; and all of my colleagues in the Ethnic Studies Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Last but not least, I want to thank Martha Eowyn Williams for hunting down what no one else could in UCLA’s archives; Carolyn Kozo Cole for your continued stewardship of LA’s image memory; Mark Arax for your early property sleuthing; Roy Ulrich for your wise counsel; Claire Schlotterbeck for growing another citizen’s archive and rescuing it from the flames; and Jean Bernstein for always encouraging me, whether you realized it or not, with your courageous example. vii City of Industry ...