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From out of the shadows : Mexican women in twentieth-century America

Author: Vicki Ruíz
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 10th anniversary edView all editions and formats
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An anniversary edition of the first full study of Mexican American women in the twentieth century, with new preface

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Vicki Ruíz
ISBN: 9780195374773 0195374770 9780195374780 0195374789
OCLC Number: 223877903
Description: xv, 258 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Introduction; 1. Border Journeys; 2. Confronting "America"; 3. The Flapper and the Chaperone; 4. With Pickets, Baskets, and Ballots; 5. La Nueva Chicana: Women and the Movement; 6. Claiming Public Space; Afterword.
Responsibility: Vicki L. Ruiz.
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"Not only celebrates the lives of Mexican women in the United States but provides a blueprint for social justice and human dignity."--Journal of American History


"In...a stirring portrayal of women's courage and agency, Ruiz's book epitomizes illuminative scholarship."--Latin American Research Review


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