Feb. 25, 1998
Contact: Mayerene Barker,
(818) 677-2130
mbarker@exec.csun.edu
Acuna was recognized for his book, "Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles."
The award is given by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, based at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Myers was a well-known early 20th Century historian who pioneered the study of race in North America.
Acuna, a founder of the CSUN Chicano/a Studies Department, is the author of 12 other books, including "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, "A Community Under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975," "The Sonora Strongman: The Times of Ignacio Pesqueira, 1855-1875, and forthcoming, "Sometimes There is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality" (Notre Dame), to be published in March 1998.
Among other awards, Acuna has received the Outstanding Scholar's Award from the National Assn. for Chicano Studies, the Liberty Hill Award for community service and the Emile Freed Award from the Southern California Social Science Library, a premier labor studies archive. He is the founder of the FOR Chicana and Chicano Studies Foundation, which he funded with money he received as a result of an employment discrimination lawsuit against the University of California at Santa Barbara.
The Gustavus Myers Center was founded in 1984 to continue the research into intolerance inaugurated by Myers in his "History of Bigotry in the United States" published in 1943.
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