Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.


Author: Vicki L. Ruiz, Virginia Sánchez Korrol
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/10/2005
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.24w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780195153996
ISBN10: 0195153995
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author

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

Virginia Sánchez Korrol is Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College.

They are the co-editors of Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia and were both named Latina Magazine Woman of the Year in Education in 2000.

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