Memories and migrations : mapping Boricua and Chicana histories / edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and John R. Chávez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruíz, Vicki.

Chávez, John R., 1949-

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Social conditions--20th century--Congresses.

Mexican American women.

Puerto Rican women--Social conditions--20th century--Congresses.

Puerto Rican women.

Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions--20th century--Congresses.

Women immigrants.

Mexicans--Migrations--History--20th century--Congresses.

Mexicans.

Puerto Ricans--Migrations--History--20th century--Congresses.

Puerto Ricans.

Community life--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Community life.

Sex role--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Sex role.

Ethnicity--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Ethnicity.

Social conditions.

Ethnic relations.

History.

Puerto Ricans--Migrations.

Puerto Rican women--Social conditions.

Mexican American women--Social conditions.

United States--Ethnic relations--History--20th century--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--20th century--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. A woman's place

Creating an American home : contest and accommodation in Rockefeller's company towns / María E. Montoya

La Placita Committee : claiming place and history / Lydia R. Otero

pt. 2. Migration and settlement

Cruzando la linea : engendering the history of border Mexican children during the early twentieth century / Yolanda Chávez Leyva

Lived regionalities : mujeridad in Chicago, 1920-1940 / Gabriela F. Arredondo

"The day the dresses stopped" : Puerto Rican women, the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, and the 1958 dressmakers strike / Carmen Teresa Whalen

pt. 3. Political spaces

"The floating borderlands" : identity, farmwork, and políticas in Washington State / Elizabeth Salas

Pilgrimage to the homeland : California Chicanas and International Women's Year, Mexico City, 1975 / Marisela R. Chávez

The star in my compass : claiming intellectual space in the American landscape / Virginia Sánchez Korrol.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas."

Papers from a symposium held on Feb. 28, 2004 at the Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Tex.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252032387

0252032381

9780252074783

0252074785

OCLC:

145145372