s give them a [applause] prof. garcia: i participated in a special panel. gloria cannot be with us at the conference. she is courageously battling an illness. she is with us in spirit. as i mentioned in my introduction, this book has a long history, but i'm very relieved and pleased that it has now been published by the university of california press in 2015. i started this in the 1990's by ul andiewing ra eventually glory. my earlier work had dealt with the earlier generation. i had first written about what i the first mass wave of mexican immigrants into the u.s. in the early 20th century. i was also curious about the history of children of these immigrants. to understand the second-generation, i did several books with emphasis on the relationships in the community the chicanoior to movement. this included biographies, oral histories. spanning theon great depression, world war ii and the cold war organized the first major civil rights movement among mexican americans in the united states and established a legacy of civil rights and social justice. i wante