PRESENTATION 4 LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

1. Ph.D.
Latin-
American
historian
and “Father
of Chicano
Studies”

2. Doctor Acuna, is also the
Author of “Occupied
America
A History ofpublished professor
He is a widely Chicanos”
and prominent immigrant rights
activist also regarded as the
“Father of Chicano Studies.

3. Corridors of Migration is an ambitious text linking the
1933 San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike in California
with more than three centuries of migration through
north- western Mexico into the US South-west.
Acuña sets out to show that Mexican workers were
not mere followers in this saga and that they had a
long history of labor activism in the mines of
northern Mexico and Arizona, that eventually
brought them to California.
Anything But Mexicans, an incisive, meticulously
researched book that documents the irreversible
demographic shift taking place in California, particularly
in Los Angeles, This is the first book that analyses the
historical significance of this fact in cultural, political,
economic, and educational terms.

4. Rodolfo F. Acuña, the founding chair of Chicano Studies at then San
Fernando Valley State now The California State University
Northridge– Started the largest Chicano Studies Department in the
United States with 30 tenured professors -- has authored 19 books,
three of which received the Gustavu's Myers Award for the
Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America.
Distinguished Scholar Award
National Association for Chicano Studies
Emil Freed Award for Community Service
Awarded by the Southern California Social Science Library
Founder's Award for Community Service from the Liberty Hill Foundation
As an activist/scholar he has been the leading voice in
the Mexican American community starting organizations
and numerous scholarships helping young Latinos all
over the U.S obtain an Education and a jumpstart to
success.

5. Rodolfo F. Acuna On what’s the point of your work? and why you engaged
your studies in such a manner. Dr. RODOLFO F. ACUÑA received his
doctorate in Latin American Studies, concentration in history, in 1968.

6. Dr.Acuna is a very down to earth person he
believes that that most people are just
consumers and we need more providers
more artistic and people who are willing to
sacrifice anything for the better of the
community .
Rodolfo Acuna has written over nineteen
Books and over half of them have been
Banned in numerous states
“They can ban my work, But as long as
I keep producing, I am Content”.
-Rodolfo Acuna

7. Harvard Graduate School of Education
http://www.hepg.org/her/booknote/173
The University of Texas Austin
https://www.utexas.edu/its/webspace/index.php
Mexican banned Books
http://thinkmexican.org/post/15844198146/rudolfo-acuna-banned-’
University of California State Northridge
http://www.csun.edu/~hfchs006/FacultyBios/RodolfoAcuna.htm
Rutgers University Press
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/the_making_of_chicana_o_studies.html
Julian Samora Research Institute University of Michigan
http://www.jsri.msu.edu/pdfs/ops/oc09.pdf