Rodolfo Acuña

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Rodolfo Francisco Acuña, Ph.D., (born May 18, 1932) is an historian, professor, and perhaps the foremost scholar of Chicano Studies, which he teaches at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of the seminal work of Chicano history, Occupied America, which approaches the history of the Southwestern United States from the point of view of Mexican Americans. It has been reprinted five times since its 1972 debut. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times. His work emphasizes the activism of the Mexican American people, and he has supported the numerous causes of the Chicano Movement.

In the 1980s Acuña sued the University of California, Santa Barbara for age and race discrimination. A jury found for Acuña, but refused to compel the University to hire him, instead awarding him a monetary compensation of $325,000.^[1] The three-year struggle led to a rift in the Chicano intellectual community which has yet to heal.

In 1998, he was awarded the Gustavus Myers Award by the Study of Human Rights in North America, an institution at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville for his book Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles.^[2]

1 Bibliography
2 References
3 External links
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[edit] Bibliography

Acuña, Rodolfo F. (1996). Anything but Mexican : Chicanos in contemporary Los Angeles. New York: Verso. ISBN 1859849369.
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (1984). A community under siege : a chronicle of Chicanos east of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975. Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, University of California at Los Angeles. ISBN 0895510669.
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (1971). A Mexican American chronicle. New York: American Book Co.. LCCN E184.M5 A627.
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (1998). Sometimes there is no other side : Chicanos and the myth of equality. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 0268017638.
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (2004). Occupied America : a history of Chicanos. New York: Pearson Longman. ISBN 0321103300.
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (1974). Sonoran strongman: Ignacio Pesqueira and his times. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0816503702.
Acuña, Rodolfo F., Julian Samora Research Institute (1997). Truth and objectivity and Chicano history. East Lansing, Michigan: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University. ISBN 0816503702.
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (1971). The story of the Mexican Americans; the men and the land. Sacramento: California State Dept. of Education. ISBN 0816503702.
Acuña, Rodolfo F. (2003). U.S. Latino issues. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313322112.