Ernesto Galarza - Man of Fire: Selected Writings

We have many people to thank, and we want to acknowledge them and hope that those we have overlooked will forgive us.

First and foremost, we would like to thank our families for all their sacrifices, inspiration, support, and wisdom that set the foundation for the accomplishment of this labor. Muchsimas gracias. Each of you has had a fundamental role in shaping our thoughts and scholarship.

Several of our colleagues deserve particular mention. We have learned much from our never-ending conversation on Mexican American labor and the work of Ernesto Galarza from Professor Gilbert G. Gonzlezthanks, Gil. From the beginning, Manuel Gmez believed in this project and provided financial supporta very special thank-you.

We owe special thanks to Victor Becerra, director of the Community Outreach Partnership Center at the University of California, Irvine; Richard A. Matthew, director of the Center for Unconventional Security; Frank Bean, director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy; Caesar D. Sereseres, associate dean of undergraduate studies in the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine; and the University of Wisconsin's School for Workers for making research and travel funds available. We owe a special debt to our students at UC Irvine, Alfredo Carlos, Luis Fonseca, and Carla Rodriguez Gonzalez, for their assistance and hard work.

A number of librarians and archivists have been very helpful. Special thanks to the library staff at the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford University, the Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley, and the Butler Library at Columbia University. A very special thank-you to Christina Woo at UCI's Langson Library. We also received enthusiastic support from the University of Wisconsin's School for Workers.

Our gratitude to Henry P. Anderson for providing selected letters for the volume and for sharing his memories of Ernesto Galarza. The title of our book comes from a chapter title that appears in Joan London and Henry Anderson's book So Shall Ye Reap. We are grateful to William Estrada for his assistance in acquiring photographs used in this volume.

We would like to thank the office staff of the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design (PPD) at UCI. In particular, many thanks to Kate Hartshorn for research support and to Mervyn Vaz, PPD department manager, for being so patient. Mil gracias to David L. Feldman, chair of the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, for his support in this endeavor. We are very grateful to Laurie Matheson, senior acquisitions editor at UIP, for her patience and support.

We offer our deepest respect to all the people laboring in the orchards and fields of the United States. Your pride, sincerity, hard work, and perseverance in the face of adversity are exemplary and are an inspiration to all Americans.

We have made every effort to trace copyright holders and to obtain permission to print selected archival material. We apologize for any omissions and would be grateful to be notified of any corrections that should be made in future editions of this book.

This was a collaborative effort to get selected works of Ernesto Galarza to a wider audience and a new generation of scholars.

To my son, Jacob, for his warmth and honesty, and for my wife, Patricia, for her love and comradeship.

Rodolfo D. Torres

Finalmente, para mi querida esposa y compaera, Veronica D. Ibarra, y para mis padres, Maria de los Angeles y Jose Armando Ibarra Salazar, que con cario y ejemplo me ensearon las virtudes que forman mi persona: Trabajo, Amor, Dignidad, Respeto, Derecho, Vergenza y Valor Civil.

Armando Ibarra Salazar