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the University of Texas Press, especially Theresa May, Allison Faust, Mary
LaMotte, and Tom Lacey, an excellent copy editor, for their constant support.
The two outside readers for the University of Texas Press provided
valuable insights. One of them was anonymous, and thus we can only direct
a thank-you here for the thorough and informed comments s/he provided.
The second reader identifi ed himself, so we thank Arturo Aldama of the
Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for his
suggestions.
Individually, Ching would like to acknowledge the benefi t of a week
spent at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the College
Teacher Workshop program sponsored by the Duke/UNC Consortium of
Latin American Studies. Various faculty at Duke and UNC, including John
Charles Chasteen, offered advice. The efforts spent during that week devising
a sample syllabus for a course dealing with cultural studies in Latin
America contributed to the development of the IDS75 seminar.
In large part, our own professors and mentors have inspired us in our
teaching of the seminar and our writing of this book. Ching would like
to thank his two main advisors in Latin American history, David Rock at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Héctor Lindo-Fuentes at
Fordham University. Buckley would like to take this opportunity to thank
her former professors from Tulane University and the College of William
and Mary for being role models as educators and scholars. She is especially
grateful for the mentorship of Susan Martin-Márquez and Ana López, without
whom cinema may have remained two-dimensional. The generosity
and humanity with which they shared their expertise made it a privilege
to study with them and continue to make it a privilege to count them as
friends. She is also indebted to her parents, John and Kathleen, educators
as well, for paving the way for a life of fulfi llment through learning, and to
her tíos, Stephen Strobach and Natividad Reyes, for teaching her the indispensability
of social justice through their everyday practice of its principles.
Lozano-Alonso would like to thank her former professors from the University
of Colorado and Cornell University. In particular, she would like
to thank her graduate school professors who fi rst introduced her to these
theoretical approaches and taught her by example about the importance
of connecting pedagogy with research: Debra A. Castillo, John Kronik, and
Edmundo Paz-Soldán. She is indebted to her parents, Anthony G. Lozano and
Leticia Alonso de Lozano, for her love of teaching and learning. A special
thanks to Anthony G. Lozano for his help with editing the fi nal manuscript.
Ultimately, of course, it is to our students in IDS75 to whom we owe the
greatest thanks. Needless to say, this project would have been impossible