Dr. Rodolfo F. Acu帽a
Dr. RODOLFO F. ACU脩A is the Founder of Chicana and Chicano Studies at 快活林性息 and is also regarded as one of the academic fathers of Chicano Studies.
Dr. Acu帽a听received his doctorate in Latin American Studies, concentration in history, in 1968. 听His concentration is Northern Mexico and the study of the Mexican in the United States. He is the author 20 titles, 32 academic articles and chapters in books, 155 book reviews and 188 opinion pieces. Three of his books have received the Gustavus Myers Award for the Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America and more recently Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 (Arizona) was named a 2008 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE Magazine (American Library Association). Acu帽a has received the National Hispanic Institute, Lifetime Achievement Award, Austin, Texas, 2008 and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Historian of the Lions Award, among others.
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In 1989, Acu帽a received the Distinguished Scholar Award, National Association for Chicano Studies, the Emil Freed Award for Community Service, Southern California Social Science Library, the Founder's Award for Community Service from the Liberty Hill Foundation among others.听听Black Issues In Higher Education听selected Acu帽a one of the 鈥�100 Most Influential Educators of the 20th Century. In 1973 he negotiated a Ford Foundation grant that initiated Operation Chicano Teacher.
Among his best-known books are听Occupied America: A History of Chicanos6th edition (Longman, 2007);听Sometimes There is No Other Side: Essays on Truth and Objectivity听(Notre Dame, 1998);听Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles.听(Verso Press, 1996),听US Latinos: An Inquiry听(Greenwood Press, 2003),听Community Under Siege听(UCLA, 1984),听The Sonoran Strongman听(University of Arizona, 1974). As an activist and scholar, he has been a leading voice in the Mexican American community.