Mario Barrera was professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the author of Beyond Aztlan: Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective (1990) and the first edition of Race and Class in the Southwest (1989), as well as coproducer of the documentary film Chicano Park.

Rodolfo D. Torres is emeritus research professor of urban planning at the University of California, Irvine. He is author and coauthor of 10 books, most notably the American Political Science Association award-winning Latino best book of the year, The Latino Question: Politics, Labouring Classes and the Next Left (2018), coauthored with Armando Ibarra and Alfredo Carlos, and Latino Metropolis with Victor Valle (2000). Torres is also coauthor with Edward Martin of Capitalism and Critique (2019). Torres assisted Professor Barrera in the final stages of Race and Class in the Southwest with his analysis of labor market segmentation theory and Marxist theories of the state.

William I. Robinson is a distinguished professor of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also an affiliated professor with the Chicano/a Studies Department. He is the author of many award-winning books, among them The Global Police State (2020) and Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (2025).