The University of Arizona Press

Anita Huízar-Hernández is associate director of the Hispanic Research Center and associate professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. Born and raised in Arizona, Huízar-Hernández’s teaching and research focus on the ways literature, film, and other forms of expressive culture have consolidated or challenged myths about Arizona, the West, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. She is the author of Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West.