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This book is dedicated to three incredible women, all of whom built and sustained friendships and solidarities across oceans and borders. Lucienne Muller, Dalia Justo, and Isabel Portilla Flores have served as enduring inspiration for as long as I can remember. They taught me the power of dreaming, the virtue of hard work, the value of perseverance, and the importance of solidaridad. This work is for them.
I remember the moment I fell in love with the study of history. It was in a ninth-grade history class taught by Mrs. Stearn. Her lectures are still vivid in my mind, and I hope they remain so always. In a way, I also owe this book (and my career) to her. Sadly, she is not able to read this book, but I’d like to think she would have enjoyed it.
In the time it has taken me to conceive of, research, write and rewrite this book, I have accumulated many debts to many people. These acknowledgments only begin to express my gratitude to them. At Yale and then at Berkeley I had the opportunity to study with brilliant historians and scholars and to benefit from strong mentorship. During my time at Yale, Gilbert Joseph, Stuart Schwartz, Raymond Craib, and Rick López helped me gain footing in the field, while Jonathan Spence and John Demos instilled in me a love of narrative history I will never lose. Many thanks to my advisor at Berkeley, Margaret Chowning, whose faith in me never waned. I have yet to find a more keen and critical eye than hers. Thank you to William Taylor as well. He saw the full potential of my project long before I did. And to Julio Ramos: this book was quite literally born in your seminar. Others at Berkeley who cannot go without mention for the support they provided are Mark Healy, José David Saldivar, Eugene Irschick, James Vernon, and Tyler Stovall. My time at Berkeley drew me, unexpectedly, into a different community of like-minded people. Thank you to my friends at UCMAP for testing my limits and for catching me when I fell. The same goes for the John Machado Academy in Los Angeles, where I learned how to move through life differently.
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