Latina Lives, Latina Narratives (eBook, PDF)

Influential Essays by Vicki L. Ruiz
Redaktion: Chávez-García, Miroslava

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the most influential and widely known writings of Vicki L. Ruiz, a leading voice in the fields of Chicana/o, Latina/o, women's, and labor history. The collection fulfills a much-needed demand in the teaching of women's, Chicana/o, Latina/o, and labor history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000401882
• Artikelnr.: 61761884

Autorenporträt

Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara and holds affiliations in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies. Her latest book is Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2018), a history of migration, gender, courtship, and identity, as told through more than 300 personal letters sent across the border.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Forty Years of Narrating Latina Lives 1. A Promise Fulfilled:
Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California 2. Dead Ends or Gold Mines?:
Using Missionary Records in Mexican-American Women's History 3. "Star
Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950
4. Situating Stories: The Surprising Consequences of Oral History 5. 'We
Always Tell Our Children They are Americans:' Méndez v. Westminster and the
California Road to Brown 6. Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School
Segregation and Desegregation in the U.S. West 7. Una Mujer sin Fronteras:
Luisa Moreno and Latina Labor Activism 8. Nuestra América: Latino History
as United States History 9. Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries,
American Communities 10. AHA Presidential Address, Class Acts: Latina
Feminist Traditions, 1900-1930 11. "Ongoing Missionary Labor": Building,
Maintaining, and Expanding Chicana Studies/History, An Interview with Vicki
L. Ruiz, by Leisa D. Meyer 12. Pathways in Oral History: Vicki L. Ruiz