Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America

About the Contributors

| 273 About the Contributors Ana Aparicio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is the author of Dominican Americans and the Politics of Empowerment, which received the 2006 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award Honorable Mention. She is also the coeditor of Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy. Adrian Burgos, Jr., is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the author of Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line. His academic articles have appeared in Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Journal of Negro History, and CENTRO: Journal of the Center of Puerto Rican Studies. He is currently working on Harlem ’s Numbers King: A Life Story of Alejandro Pompez. Dolores Inés Casillas is Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current manuscript, based on her award-winning dissertation , examines the political relationship between U.S. Spanish-language radio and Latino listeners throughout the twentieth century. María Elena Cepeda is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College, and author of Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom. She has published in the journals Popular Music and Society, Latino Studies, Identities, Women and Performance, and Discourse, among others, and is editorial assistant and translator of Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, edited by Frances Aparicio and Cándida Jáquez. Cary Cordova is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has published in Latino Studies and Voices of Art, and is in the process of completing her manuscript, 274 | About the Contributors “The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Identity in San Francisco.” She also has served as a public historian and oral historian for various institutions , including the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Lilia Fernández is Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of History, with affiliations in Latina/o Studies, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Studies. Her most recent essay, “Of Migrants and Immigrants: Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration in Comparative Perspective, 1942–1964,” appears in the Journal of American Ethnic History (Spring 2010). Her manuscript, “Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago, 1945–1975,” is currently under review. Frank A. Guridy is Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published essays in the Radical History Review, Caribbean Studies, Social Text, and, most recently, Cuban Studies. His book, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, examines the institutional relationships and cultural interactions between Cubans and U.S. Americans of African descent from the U.S. intervention of 1898 until the eve of the outbreak of the Cuban Revolution. Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera is Assistant Professor in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is currently revising a manuscript for publication on Zapotec transnational migration, and has contributed essays to Urban Anthropology, Latino America : A State-by-State Encyclopedia, and Health Education Quarterly. She also serves as the coordinator for the Gender and (Im)migration Workshops at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College and serves on the Executive Board of the Society for the Anthropology of Work. John McKiernan-Gonzalez is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas, Austin. He has worked on a variety of exhibits and public programs with the Smithsonian Institution, and recently finished the digital radio recovery project, Onda Latina. His work focuses on the ways Latinos have historically negotiated the intersection of public health, public space, and citizenship. He is completing his manuscript, “Fevered Measures: Connecting Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942.” About the Contributors | 275 Pablo Mitchell is Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. He is the author of Coyote Nation: Sexuality , Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880–1920, which was awarded the 2007 Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. His next book project is “West of Sex: Colonialism and the Making of Mexican America, 1900–1930.” In 2008, he...