GUIDE TO Occupied America: A History of Chicanas/os By Rodolfo F. Acuña © Rodolfo F. Acuña 2013 Teacher and Student for Occupied America 8/e Table of Contents Meet the Author……………………………… Methodology………………………………… Module I: Identity …………………………… Module II: Mexico Pre-1821 Mesoamerica/Spain Module III: The American Wars…………….. Module IV. The Colonization: 19th Century Southwest Module V. Expansion, Immigration, Transformation, Reaction Module VI. The Great Depression: Reform ………………….. Module VII. World War II and the Aftermath ……………….. Module VIII. The Sixties and the Chicana/o………………….. Module IX: The Seventies: The Deconstruction of the ‘60s….. Module X: Becoming a National Minority: 1980–2001……… Module 11 Losing Fear: A Decade of Struggle………………. Appendix The American Experience, PBS Series Websites Selected Websites Music of the Sixties Programs that offer a BA in Chicana/o Studies Research and Museum Tour Mini Course Meet the Author Rodolfo F. Acuña RODOLFO F. ACUÑA ABRIDGED MINI PUBLICATION VITA Education & Employment Information 1958-61 Teacher, San Fernando Junior High 1961-65 Master teacher, Cleveland High School 1961-65 Teacher, Hollywood High Adult School 1964-68 Professor, Pierce Junior College 1966-68 Part time Instructor, Mt. St. Mary’s 1966-67 Teacher, NDEA Summer Institute, San Fernando State College 1969 Political Science Instructor, part time, University of Southern California 1968 Ph.D. Latin American Studies, University of Southern California 1969- Professor of Chicano Studies, California State University, Northridge Selected Honors: * Lifetime Achievement Award, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), 2009 * National Hispanic Institute, Lifetime Achievement Award, Austin, Texas, 2008 * Keynote, Texas Foco, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2008 * Community Coalition South Central Los Angeles, 9th Annual Gala Dinner, Activist-scholar award, 2008 * The Labor Strategy Center Award, May 2007 * Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Historian of the Lions Award at 18th Anniversary Dinner in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 13, 2007 * National Hispanic Cultural Center. Book Presentation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2007 * National Hispanic Hero Award, March 11, 2006, Chicago, 24th annual national conference. United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, 3000 in Attendance * LA Weekly, LA People 2006, April 21-27, 2006, p. 108, Featured as one of 100 LA shakers and movers * 2005 Symposium on the Works of Rodolfo F. Acuña, California State Northridge, May 2005 * Selected As One of the “100 Most Influential Educators of the 20th Century,” Black Issues In Higher Education * Recipient of the Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America, 1988, 1996, 1998* Distinguished Scholar Award, National Association for Chicano Studies 1989 * Homenaje University of Guadalajara Feria Internacional del Libro and the State of Guadalajara Mexico for the Outstanding Scholar of U.S.-Mexico Studies * Emil Freed Award for Community Service, Southern California Social Science Library * Plenary session on the future of the profession, American Historical Association, 1992 * Corridors of Migration: Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 (University of Arizona 2007) Winner of a CHOICE [American Library Association] Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2008 * A founder of Labor/Community Strategy Center, 1989 *Founder's Award for Community Service, Liberty Hill Foundation *American Council of Learned Societies Award, 1981 *Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, 1982 *Ford Foundation Research Grant 1978 *Ford Foundation Grant for Operation Chicano Teacher, 1975 *Founding Chair, Chicano Studies Department, California State University, Northridge, 1969 *A Founder of Latin American Civic Association Headstart, 1962 Books: In Progress “My Journey Out of Purgatory: Footprints: Fifty Years of Activism and Research.” 2011 The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe. Rutgers University Press. 2010 Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 7th edition. New York: Prentice-Hall. 2008 Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience [Three Volumes]. Greenwood Press. 2007 Corridors of Migration: Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933. University of Arizona Press, Dec 2007. 2007 Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 6th edition. New York: Longman. 2004 US Latinos Issues. Greenwood Press. 2004 Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 5th edition. New York: Longman. 2000 Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 4th edition. New York: Addison, Wesley & Longman. 1998 Sometimes There is No Other Side: Essays on Truth and Objectivity. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Honorable Mention for Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America. 1996 Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles. London: Verso Press, 1996Recipient of the Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America. 1988 Occupied America. A History of Chicanos, 3rd Edition. New York: Harper and Row. Recipient of the Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America. 1988 Sound Recording. Occupied America a History of Chicanos. Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State Library Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Document: English: Sound Recording: Non-music: Cassette tape. 1984 Community Under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945- 1975 (UCLA). 1981 El Caudillo Sonorense. Ignacio Pesqueira y sus tiempos. Mexico D.F.: ERA. l980 Occupied America. A History of Chicanos, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row. 1976 America Ocupada. Ediciones ERA. 1974 Sonoran Strongman: The Times of Ignacio Pesqueira. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1972 Occupied America: The Chicano Struggle Toward Liberation. New York: Harper & Row. 1970 Cultures in Conflict: Case Studies of the Mexican American. Los Angeles: Charter Books. 1970 A Mexican American Chronicle. New York: American Book Company. 1969 The Story of the Mexican American. New York: American Book Company. Chapters in books and journal articles, scholarly articles, public articles, and book reviews, 350. Why Become a Historian? American Historical Association, http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/why/ACUNA.HTM Rodolfo F. Acuña California State University at Northridge For the past 25 years, I have been at war with American historians. My disenchantment with these scholars sprang from the 1960s and what seemed a profession more interested in the past than the present. This persuaded me to join the movement to establish Chicano studies—an interdisciplinary field examining the body of knowledge that included Mexicans on both sides of the Río Bravo. Over the years, the profession's failure to incorporate Mexican Americans and other ethnic groups into the field of history led me to question the reliability of the historians' claims to objectivity. Indeed, I reasoned, how accurate were the interpretations of historians of the past when they knew so little about the present? As my influence grew within Chicano studies, and indeed, within the larger Latino community, my view of the profession became less harsh. I appreciated that my training as a historian contributed greatly to my ability to bridge the chasm between the humanities and the social sciences within the field itself—the truth be told, history has two heads. Moreover, with age, I realized that the study of history contributed to my understanding of what an interdisciplinary field was. Equally, it became clear that my own separatism was a form of elitism itself, and that by not participating within the profession, I had abandoned valuable political space to those with a much narrower vision than my own. A profession, like a civil society, is as functional as its members. Controversies over the scope of knowledge are as old as education itself. Only through the insistence on a full and open discourse will its values change. The lack of a critical mass of minority scholars or those wanting to broaden this scope of knowledge slows the ability of the profession to change and to include the studies of working- class people, women, and racial and ethnic minorities. That is why, in recent years, I have rejoined the profession, so I can encourage young Chicano scholars to enter the field in larger numbers. In retrospect, I could have chosen a more lucrative profession. Indeed, teaching has, until recent times, been an avocation reserved for the sons and daughters of a small group of professionals. I had to use the secondary schools as a stepping stone to higher education. Working full time to support a family, I often wondered whether I would be better off pursuing another career. The study of history, however, lured me—as did the ideas of historians like Carl Becker and E. P. Thompson. I also realized that in order for this history that inspired me to filter down to the barrios, so as to draw young minds and inspire them, present generations of Chicanos would have to sacrifice. Only in this way could we "Take Back Our History!" LATINOPIA BIOGRAPHY DR. RODOLFO ACUÑA, http://latinopia.com/latino-history/latinopia-biography-dr-rodolfo-acuna/ Videos by: RODOLFO ACUÑA on his banned book, 'Occupied America: A History of Chicanos', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJKOzA3TAvs Interview with Rodolfo F. Acuna, Photographed and edited by Brogan de Paor for the Activist Video Archive, http://vimeo.com/43315521 El Paso Community College - Chicano Studies, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FuMKr23pB0&feature=related