Rodolfo Acuña
Chicano studies professor
Rodolfo Acuña's Degrees
- PhD History University of Southern California
Why Is Rodolfo Acuña Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rodolfo "Rudy" Francisco Acuña is an American historian, professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, and a scholar of Chicano studies. He authored the 1972 book Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, approaching history of the Southwestern United States with a heavy emphasis on Mexican Americans. An eighth edition was published in 2014. Acuña has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Herald-Express, La Opinión, and numerous other newspapers. His work emphasizes the struggles of Mexican American people. Acuña is an activist and he has supported numerous causes of the Chicano Movement. He currently teaches an on-line history course at California State University, Northridge.
Rodolfo Acuña's Published Works
Published Works
- Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2014) (296)
- Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (2006) (249)
- Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation (1973) (168)
- Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles (1996) (105)
- The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico (2000) (36)
- Sometimes There Is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality (1998) (35)
- A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970 (2003) (25)
- The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe (2011) (23)
- Corridors of migration : the odyssey of Mexican laborers, 1600-1933 (2008) (10)
- Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies (2012) (5)
- Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (2005) (4)
- A community under siege (1984) (4)
- Sonoran Strongman: Ignacio Pesqueira and His Times (1974) (3)
- The Making of Chicana/o Studies (2019) (2)
- Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb (2000) (1)
- Voices of the U.S. Latino experience (2008) (1)
- Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands. By Katherine Benton-Cohen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 367 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03277-4.) (2010) (1)
- Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Samuel Truett. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii, 259 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11091-3.) (2007) (1)
- Listen Chicano! An Informal History of the Mexican American. (1979) (1)
- The Chicano : essays (1975) (0)
- oscar j. martínez. Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juárez since 1848. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1978. Pp. xvi, 231. $12.95 (1979) (0)
- Los Mineros. Prod. by Hector Galan. Galan Productions, 1990. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) (1992) (0)
- Closeness to one's father and a sense of loneliness among Hispanic and Caucasian college adult males (2005) (0)
- In the Shadow of the Eagles: Sonora and the Transformation of the Border during the Porfiriato. By Miguel Tinker Salas. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiv, 347 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-520-20129-9) (1998) (0)
- David J. Weber. The Mexican Frontier, 1821–1846: The American Southwest under Mexico. (Histories of the American Frontier.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1982. Pp. xxiv, 416. Cloth $19.95, paper $9.95 (1983) (0)
- Chicano Professor Takes on the UC System (1994) (0)
- Reviews of Books:American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture Shelley Streeby (2003) (0)
- 2001 NACCS Scholar Award Speech (2001) (0)
- Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000 (2018) (0)
- Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (2003) (0)
- Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture. By Colin M. MacLachlan. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 330. $35.00.) (2017) (0)
- David R. Díaz and Rodolfo D. Torres (eds.) 2012: Latino Urbanism: The Politics of Planning, Policy, and Development. New York: New York University Press (2014) (0)
- Zoot Suit Riots (2002) (0)
- Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest by Norman E. Tutorow (1981) (0)
- Book Review: Listen Chicano! An Informal History of the Mexican American (1979) (0)
- Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory, 2010–2015: Swimming with Sharks (2017) (0)
- Occupied America : a Chicano History Symposium (1982) (0)
- Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. By Ian F. Haney López. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xii, 324 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-674-01068-X.) (2004) (0)
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