From Out of the Shadows Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

Name: From Out of the Shadows Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780195374773

ISBN-10: 0195374770

ISBN-13: 9780195374773

Edition: 10th 2008

Authors: Vicki L. Ruiz

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In From Out of the Shadows, historian Vicki L. Ruiz provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the 20th century, in a narrative that is greatly enhanced by Ruiz's skillful use of interviews and personal stories, capturing a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States. For this new edition, Ruiz includes a preface that continues the story of the Mexicana experience in the United States, as well as the growth of the field of Latina history. The book begins with the first wave of Mexican women crossing the border from Mexico early in our century. She reveals that between 1910 and 1930, over one million Mexican men and women (perhaps as much as ten percent of…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Edition: 10th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Border Journeys



Confronting ""America""



The Flapper and the Chaperone



With Pickets, Baskets, and Ballots



La Nueva Chicana: Women and the Movement



Claiming Public Space Afterword