From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

By Vicki L. Ruiz.

From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

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For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks, and participated in community associations--efforts that solidified the community and helped Mexican Americans find their own place in America. Now, in From Out of the Shadows, historian Vicki L. Ruiz provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the 20th century, in a narr...

ISBN(s)

0195130995, 9780195130997

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