CONTRIBUTORS

Blake Allmendinger is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture (Oxford, 1992) and Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature (Routledge, 1998).

Karen Anderson is a professor of history at the University of Arizona. Her publications include Changing Woman: A History of Racial Ethnic Women in Modern America (Oxford, 1996) and Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women during World War II (Greenwood, 1981).

Miroslava Chavez is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. The essay in this book draws upon her dissertation, "Mexican Women and the American Conquest in Los Angeles, 1821–1870," which she is currently completing. Research grants from the Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, and fellowships from the Graduate Affirmative Affairs Office, UCLA, and the American Association of University Women have made her work possible.

Mike Davis wanders the West without premeditation. His most recent book is The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998). He is also the co-editor (with Hal Rothman) of The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (California, 1998).

Arleen de Vera received the Alexander Saxton History Essay Award in 1992 for her M.A. research on labor organizing among Filipino immigrants in the 1950s. She is now a Ph.D. candidate in history at UCLA and completing a dissertation on the roles of nationalism, colonialism, and culture in the creation of Filipino identity, 1919 to 1946.

William Deverell is associate professor of history in the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850–1910 and co-editor (with Tom

Sitton) of California Progressivism Revisited (both California, 1994). His essay in this volume is drawn from an in-progress book on the history of Los Angeles, 1850–1940.

Douglas Flamming is assistant professor of history in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His book Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984 won the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The essay included here stems from his current book project titled "A World to Gain: African Americans and the Making of Los Angeles, 1890–1940."

Chris Friday is an associate professor of history at Western Washington University, where he is director of the Center for Pacific Northwest History as well as director of the Asian American Studies Minor. His first book, Organizing Asian American Labor (Temple, 1994), won the 1995 Association for Asian American Studies National History Book Award. He is currently working on a two-volume study of American Indian life and art in the twentieth century and a book-length manuscript that examines the multiracial nature of Pacific maritime labor markets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Friday's other publications and research continue to focus on Asian American history and interracial relations and racial formations in historical perspective.

Anne E. Goldman is assistant professor of English at Sonoma State University. She is the author of Take My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working Women (California, 1996). At present she is completing a manuscript on late-nineteenth-century fictions called "Racing Region: Toward a More Dialectical Model for American Studies."

Ramón A. Gutiérrez is the associate chancellor and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1848 (Stanford, 1991) and, with Richard Orsi, the editor of Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (California, 1998). Gutiérrez is currently at work on a history of the Chicano Movement in the United States.

Louise V. Jeffredo-Warden, a writer/folklorist/poet of mixed European and Native American descent (Island Gabrielino/Payomkawish^[*] [Luiseño]/Creek), is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University. She is a member of the Temecula (Pechanga) Band of Luiseño Mission Indians.

Susan Lee Johnson is an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she teaches courses in western history, gender history, and the history of sexuality. She has published in the Western Historical Quarterly and Radical History Review, and her book on gender, race, memory, and the California Gold Rush is forthcoming.

Patricia Nelson Limerick is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the chair of the Board of the Center of the American West there. The

author of The Legacy of Conquest (Norton, 1987), she has two books in progress, Something in the Soil and The Atomic West (both forthcoming from Norton).

Jesús Martínez-Saldaña is an assistant professor of political science at Santa Clara University. His primary area of research is Mexican immigration.

Valerie J. Matsumoto is an associate professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919–1982 (Cornell, 1993), she is working on a book about Nisei women and the creation of urban youth culture in the 1930s.

Melissa L. Meyer is a specialist in American Indian social history and interdisciplinary methods. She earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Minnesota. She published The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1887–1920 in 1994. Her articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Social Science History, and elsewhere. Her current research focuses on the history of American Indian tribal enrollment with special emphasis on "blood quantum requirements."

Mary Murphy is an associate professor of history at Montana State University, Bozeman. She is the author of Mining Cultures: Men, Women and Leisure in Butte, 1914–1941 (Illinois, 1997) and co-author of Like aFamily: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987).

Peggy Pascoe is an associate professor and Beekman Chair of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon. The author of Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1873–1939 (1990), she is at work on a book about the history of miscegenation laws in the U.S. from 1865 to the present.

Virginia Scharff, associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (Free Press, 1991) and co-author of Present Tense: The United States since 1945 (Houghton Mifflin, 1991; 2d ed., 1996) and Coming of Age: America in the Twentieth Century (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). She is working on a book about women's movements and the West.

Jill Watts is an associate professor of history at California State University, San Marcos. She is the author of God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story (California, 1992) and is currently working on an interpretative biography of the life and work of Mae West.