Elizabeth Betita Martínez

500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana

Bilingual Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from female-centred stories of pre-Columbian Mexico to profiles of contemporary social justice activists, labour leaders, youth organisers, artists, and environmentalists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 215mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 938g
• ISBN-13: 9780813542249
• ISBN-10: 0813542243
• Artikelnr.: 23190877

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez is a widely known Chicana writer, activist, and lecturer. Now director of the Institute for Multiracial Justice in San Franciso, she has published six books, most recently De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Story of La Chicana Begins
A New Invader Comes
Chicanas at Work Under U.S. Rule
La Revolución Mexicana
Let's Go To the U.S.
The Great Depression, Repatriation, Strike!
World War II
The Movement is Born
Life of a Farmworker Woman
Our Own Party
No a la Guerra en Vietnam
Work = Struggle
VIVA LA MUJER!
Mujeres who love women
Walking the Red Road
Culture contains the seed...
Today's Writers
Música, Teatro, Film,
The Counter-Insurgency
The Land That Came Back to Life
The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
New Worker Struggles
Immigrant Rights
Alliance Building Across Color Lines
Chicanas in Public Office
Youth Are Rising
Not to Be Forgotten
Further Reading
Photo & Illustration Credits
About the Author