Latina Legacies - Identity, Biography, And Community

Zusatztext [The] fifteen biographical essays...provide a fascinating picture of Latina intellectual and cultural activity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Informationen zum Autor Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine Virginia Sánchez Korrol is Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College. They are the co-editors of Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia and were both named Latina Magazine Woman of the Year in Education in 2000. Klappentext Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions. Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.

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• Authors: Korrol, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Vicki L Ruiz, Vicki L. Ruiz, Vicki L. (EDT)/ Sanchez Korrol Ruiz
• Assisted by: Virginia Sanchez Korrol (Editor), Virginia Sánchez Korrol (Editor), Vicki L Ruiz (Editor), Vicki L. Ruiz (Editor), Virginia Sanchez Korrol (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2005
• EAN: 9780195153996
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515399-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Viewpoints on American Culture; Viewpoints on American Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries