Latina Lives, Latina Narratives

Influential Essays by Vicki L. Ruiz
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-69926-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

This book brings together the most influential and widely known writings of Vicki L. Ruiz, a leading voice in the fields of Chicana/o, Latina/o, women’s, and labor history.

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. From challenging familial, patriarchal cultural norms, building interethnic social networks in the neighborhood and workplace, and organizing labor unions, to fighting gender and racial discrimination in the courts, at work, in the schools, and on the streets, Ruiz’s studies have examined the countless struggles, roadblocks, and victories Chicanas and Latinas have faced in the twentieth century and beyond. The articles in this book are organized chronologically to 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 as mujeres, Chicanas, Latinas, scholars, teachers, and mentors.

With its narrative flow and engaging prose, Ruiz’s scholarship connects with academic and public audiences and this collection fulfills a much-needed demand in the teaching of women’s, Chicana/o, Latina/o, and labor history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chávez-García, Miroslava

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Forty Years of Narrating Latina Lives  1. A Promise Fulfilled: Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California  2. Dead Ends or Gold Mines?: Using Missionary Records in Mexican-American Women's History  3. “Star Struck”: Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950  4. Situating Stories: The Surprising Consequences of Oral History  5. ‘We Always Tell Our Children They are Americans:’ Méndez v. Westminster and the California Road to Brown  6. Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the U.S. West  7. Una Mujer sin Fronteras: Luisa Moreno and Latina Labor Activism  8. Nuestra América: Latino History as United States History  9. Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities  10. AHA Presidential Address, Class Acts: Latina Feminist Traditions, 1900-1930  11. “Ongoing Missionary Labor”: Building, Maintaining, and Expanding Chicana Studies/History, An Interview with Vicki L. Ruiz, by Leisa D. Meyer  12. Pathways in Oral History: Vicki L. Ruiz

Über Autor(innen)

Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara and holds affiliations in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies. Her latest book is Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands (2018), a history of migration, gender, courtship, and identity, as told through more than 300 personal letters sent across the border.