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Title:

Chicanas of 18th Street : narratives of a movement from Latino Chicago / Leonard G. Ramírez ; with Yenelli Flores ... [et al.].

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xxviii, 224 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mexican American women--Chicago--Chicago--Biography.
Community activists--Chicago--Chicago--Biography.
Mexican Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
Chicano movement--Illinois--Chicago.
Pilsen (Chicago, Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Other Authors:

Ramírez, Leonard G.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

List of abbreviations, organizations, and programs -- Chicago movement time line -- Introduction : Second City Mexicans / Leonard G. Ramírez -- Homecoming, 1997 / Leonard G. Ramírez -- A legacy of struggle / Yenelli Flores -- Living the life I was meant to lead / Isaura González -- Una chicana en la lucha / María Gamboa -- A woman of my time / Cristina Vital -- Defending my people and my culture / Victoria Pérez -- A proud daughter of a Mexican worker / Magda Ramírez-Castañeda -- Social action / Leonard G. Ramírez -- Women of 18th Street : our preliminary assessment / Yenelli Flores ... [et al.].

Series:

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

ISBN:

0252078128 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252078125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252036182 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780252036187 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)670480124

LCCN:

2011022668

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)