Memories and Migrations Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories

Name: Memories and Migrations Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories
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ISBN: 9780252074783

ISBN-10: 0252074785

ISBN-13: 9780252074783

Edition: 2007

Authors: Vicki L. Ruiz, John R. Chavez

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Using region as a category of analysis, this pioneering collection explores the reciprocal relationship between Latinas and location. In highlighting the multiple ways in which Latinas grapple with their identity, the contributors significantly increase our understanding of how identity is created, negotiated, claimed, and remembered. This pathbreaking volume compares Latinas from a variety of backgrounds, moving the focus from Los Angeles, New York, and Santa Fe to Chicago, Tucson, and Philadelphia. Memories and Migrations embodies the constant negotiation and shaping of scholarship, which mirrors the fluidity of Latina migration, memory, and identity. Contributors include Gabriela F.…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Vicki L. Ruiz is a professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies and chair of the department of history at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. John R. Chaacute;vez is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University and the author of Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union .



Preface



Acknowledgments


Introduction




A Woman's Place



Creating an American Home: Contest and Accommodation in Rockefeller's Company Towns




La Placita Committee: Claiming Place and History




Migration and Settlement



Cruzando la Linea: Engendering the History of Border Mexican Children during the Early Twentieth Century




Lived Regionalities: Mujeridad in Chicago, 1920-1940




"The Day the Dresses Stopped": Puerto Rican Women, the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, and the 1958 Dressmakers Strike




Political Spaces



"The Floating Borderlands": Identity, Farmwork, and Politicas in Washington State




Pilgrimage to the Homeland: California Chicanas and International Women's Year, Mexico City, 1975




The Star in My Compass: Claiming Intellectual Space in the American Landscape



Contributors


Index