About the Authors

CAREY McWILLIAMS was editor of The Nation, 1951–1975, and author of Ambrose Bierce, Factories in the Field, Ill Fares the Land, Brothers Under the Skin, Prejudice, Southern California Country, California: The Great Exception, A Mask for Privilege, Witch Hunt, and The Education of Carey McWilliams.

MATT S. MEIER was Patrick A. Donohoe Emeritus Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Santa Clara University, California. His previous works include Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836–1987 (Greenwood, 1988), Bibliography of Mexican American History (Greenwood, 1984), Dictionary of Mexican American History (Greenwood, 1981), and The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans (1972).

ALMA M. GARCÍA is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Santa Clara University, California. She received her PhD in sociology at Harvard University. Her previous works include Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings (coeditor) (1998); The Mexican Americans (Greenwood Press, 2002); Narratives of Mexican American Women: Emergent Identities of the Second Generation (2004); Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican Americans’ Search for Justice, Power and Citizenship Rights (coeditor) (2007), awarded the Oral History Association’s Award for Best Use of Oral History; and Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture (editor) (2012), which garnered the Susan Koppleman Award for the Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture. Her article “The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970–1980,” Gender & Society (1989): 217–228 was selected by the University of Memphis Center for Research on Women as one of the fifty Classic Articles on Race and Gender in 1997.