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': Mendez 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 America: 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.
Summary:
"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 their everyday lives. The articles reflect the evolution of Ruiz's intellectual contributions as well as her commitment to integrating feminist history, theory, and methodology, and show how she has generously offered insights, reflections, and humor in helping us define and shape who we are. It fulfills a much-needed demand in the teaching of women's, Chicana/o, Latina/o, and labor history"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.