From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
Historian Vicki L. Ruiz here provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the 20th century, in a narrative that is greatly enhanced by Ruiz's skillful use of interviews and personal stories, capturing a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States. For this new edition, Ruiz includes a preface that continues the story of the Mexicana experience in the United States, as well as the growth of the field of Latina history. What emerges from the book finally is a much-needed portrait of a very distinctive culture in America.
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From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
Historian Vicki L. Ruiz here provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the 20th century, in a narrative that is greatly enhanced by Ruiz's skillful use of interviews and personal stories, capturing a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States. For this new edition, Ruiz includes a preface that continues the story of the Mexicana experience in the United States, as well as the growth of the field of Latina history. What emerges from the book finally is a much-needed portrait of a very distinctive culture in America.
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From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

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

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

by Vicki L. Ruiz

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Historian Vicki L. Ruiz here provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the 20th century, in a narrative that is greatly enhanced by Ruiz's skillful use of interviews and personal stories, capturing a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States. For this new edition, Ruiz includes a preface that continues the story of the Mexicana experience in the United States, as well as the growth of the field of Latina history. What emerges from the book finally is a much-needed portrait of a very distinctive culture in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195374780
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/05/2008
Edition description: Anniversary
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies and Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

Introduction1.. Border Journeys2.. Confronting "America"3.. The Flapper and the Chaperone4.. With Pickets, Baskets, and Ballots5.. La Nueva Chicana: Women and the Movement6.. Claiming Public SpaceAfterword
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