Latina lives in Milwaukee / Theresa Delgadillo ; featuring interviews with Ramona Arsiniega [and 10 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delgadillo, Theresa, 1959- author.

Series:

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American women--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Biography.

Hispanic American women.

Hispanic American women--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Interviews.

Hispanic American women--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Milwaukee (Wis.)--Social life and customs.

Milwaukee (Wis.).

Milwaukee (Wis.)--Biography.

Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Genre:

Interviews.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

Summary:

Milwaukee's small but vibrant Mexican and Mexican American community of the 1920s grew over succeeding decades to incorporate Mexican, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, and Caribbean migration to the city. Drawing on years of interviews and collaboration with interviewees, Theresa Delgadillo offers a set of narratives that explore the fascinating family, community, work, and career experiences of Milwaukee's Latinas during this time of transformation. Through the stories of these women, Delgadillo caringly provides access to a wide variety of Latina experiences: early Mexican settlers entering careers as secretaries and entrepreneurs; Salvadoran and Puerto Rican women who sought educational opportunity in the United States, sometimes in flight from political conflicts; Mexican women becoming leather workers and drill press operators; and second-generation Latinas entering the professional classes. These women show how members of diverse generations, ethnicities, and occupations embraced interethnic collaboration and coalition but also negotiated ethnic and racial discrimination, domestic violence, workplace hostilities, and family separations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Latinas in Milwaukee

Antonia Morales: It wasn't bad to live without a car

Elivra, Gloria, Margarita, and Rosemary Sandoval: Hilitos de Oro

María Monreal Cameron: on the shoulders of women

Olga Valcourt Schwartz: a life dedicated to education

Ramona Arsiniega: my group of Mexican comadres made all the difference

Olivia Villarreal: It's the Hispanic Community that keeps us in business

Daisy Cubías: You have to believe it and you have to do it

Carmen Alicia Murguia: It was okay to be Mexican, but I wanted more

Epilogue: contemporary challenges for Latinas in the Midwest.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.

ISBN:

9780252039829

0252039823

9780252081361

0252081366

OCLC:

907966254