Latina lives, Latina narratives : influential essays / by Vicki L. Ruiz ; edited by Miroslava Chávez-García.

"This book brings together the most influential and widely known writings of Vicki L. Ruiz. For nearly forty years, Ruiz has produced scholarship that has provided the foundation for a rich and nuanced understanding of the ways in which Chicanas and Latinas negotiate the structures impinging on thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Works. Selections
Main Author: Ruíz, Vicki (Author)
Other Authors: Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Subjects:
Hispanic American women > Social conditions.
Mexican American women > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions.
Oral history > United States.
Américaines d'origine latino-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Conditions sociales.
Histoire orale > États-Unis.
Oral history.
United States.
Physical Description:x, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Influential essays
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Forty Years of Narrating Latina Lives
  • A Promise Fulfilled: Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California
  • Dead Ends or Gold Mines?: Using Missionary Records in Mexican-American Women's History
  • "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950
  • Situating Stories: The Surprising Consequences of Oral History
  • 'We Always Tell Our Children They are Americans': Méndez v. Westminster and the California Road to Brown
  • Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the U.S. West
  • Una Mujer sin Fronteras: Luisa Moreno and Latina Labor Activism
  • Nuestra América: Latino History as United States History
  • Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities
  • AHA Presidential Address, Class Acts: Latina Feminist Traditions, 1900-1930
  • "Ongoing Missionary Labor": Building, Maintaining, and Expanding Chicana Studies/History, An Interview with Vicki L. Ruiz
  • Pathways in Oral History: Vicki L. Ruiz.