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Rodolfo Acuña (1932–2026)

Author of Occupied America: A History of Chicanos

15 Works 417 Members 1 Favorited

About the Author

Rodolfo A. Acuna was the founding chair of the Chicano Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.

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Image credit: Historian Rodolfo "Rudy" Acuña at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles, October 13, 2007

Works by Rodolfo Acuña

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (1972) 279 copies

Anything but Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles (1996) 42 copies

The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States) (2011) 18 copies

U.S. Latino Issues (Contemporary American Ethnic Issues) (2003) 17 copies

A Community Under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975 (1984) 13 copies

Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 (2007) 13 copies

Sometimes There Is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality (1998) 12 copies

A Mexican American Chronicle (1971) 9 copies

Sonoran Strongman Ignacio Pesqueira and His Times (1974) 5 copies

The story of the Mexican Americans;: The men and the land (California State series) (1971) 3 copies

Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory, 2010–2015: Swimming with Sharks (Latinos and American Politics) (2017) 2 copies

Cultures in conflict; problems of the Mexican Americans 1 copy

Voices of the U.S. Latino experience (2008) 1 copy

Caudillo Sonorense: Ignacio Pesqueira y su tiempo (1981) 1 copy

América ocupada : los chicanos y su lucha de liberación 1 copy

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19th century (2) American history (6) Bookcase 1 (2) chicana/o studies (10) Chicano (8) Chicano history (4) Chicano Studies (4) Chicanos (6) CHST (8) civil rights (4) cultural studies (2) culture (3) Donation (3) education (2) educational (2) gone (21) history (25) labor (3) Latino (3) Latino Studies (2) Los Angeles (5) Mexican Americans (6) Mexico (3) migration (4) New Mexico (2) non-fiction (14) politics (3) Southwest US (2) to-read (13) USA (6)

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Canonical name: Acuña, Rodolfo
Legal name: Acuña, Rudolph Francis
Other names: Acuña, Rodolfo F.
Acuña, Rudy
Birthdate: 1932-05-18
Date of death: 2026-03-23
Gender: male
Occupations: historian
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA
Associated Place (for map): Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California

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Works: 15
Members: 417
Popularity: #58,442
Rating: 3.8

ISBNs: 38
Languages: 1
Favorited: 1

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