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203 About the Contributors David R. Diaz is Professor of Chicano Studies at California State University , Los Angeles, and author of Barrio Urbanism: Chicanos, Planning, and American Cities Silvia Domínguez is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Human Services at Northeastern University and author of Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing and Immigrant Networks (New York University Press, 2011). Domínguez has also published in journals like Social Problems , Community Psychology, and Family Relations and has received a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship. José L. S. Gámez is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and the Coordinator of the Design + Society Research Center in the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte . He is also a member of the Latin American Studies faculty and has been a Research Fellow with the Institute for Social Capital and a Faculty Fellow with the Urban Institute at UNC Charlotte. Johana Londoño is a PhD candidate in the American Studies Program, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University. Her research interests include urban social theory and policy, aesthetics and visual culture, and Latina/o studies. She has published in Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture and is finalizing her dissertation on the cultural politics of late twentieth-century Latino place-making and urban design across the United States. Benjamin Marquez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research interests include social movements, urban politics, and minority politics. His published work examines the relationship between race, political power, social identities, and public and political incorporation. He is the author of Power and Politics in a Chicano Barrio: A Study of Mobilization Efforts and Community Power in El Paso (University Press of America, 1985), LULAC: The Evolution of a Mexican American Political Organization (University of Texas Press, 1993), and Mexican-American Political Organizations: Choosing Issues, Taking Sides (University of Texas Press, 2003), which won the 2004 Best Book Award in the Race, Ethnicity and Politics (REP) Section of the American Political Science Association. 204 About the Contributors Nestor Rodriguez is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His topics of research include international migration, race and ethnic relations, and political sociology. Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor of Urban Planning, Chicano Studies, and Political Science at the University of California Irvine, and co-author of After Race: Racism after Multiculturalism Victor Valle is Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is coauthor of Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), author of City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California (Rutgers University Press, 2009), and a Radcliffe Fellow. Kee Warner is Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusiveness and Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His published research, which focuses on the areas of urban sustainability and environmental justice, includes a coauthored book, Building Rules: How Local Controls Shape Community Economies and Environments (Westview Press, 2000), as well as articles in sociological and interdisciplinary journals in the United States and abroad. ...

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