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

by Vicki L. Ruiz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195130995
• ISBN13: 9780195130997
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 5.3"

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