Latinas in the United States, set: A Historical EncyclopediaVicki L. Ruiz, Virginia Sánchez Korrol Indiana University Press, 3 de maig 2006 - 944 pàgines Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential reference for decades to come. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life. From mestizo settlement, pioneer life, and diasporic communities, the encyclopedia details the contributions of women as settlers, comadres, and landowners, as organizers and nuns. More than 200 scholars explore the experiences of Latinas during and after EuroAmerican colonization and conquest; the early-19th-century migration of Puerto Ricans and Cubans; 20th-century issues of migration, cultural tradition, labor, gender roles, community organization, and politics; and much more. Individual biographical entries profile women who have left their mark on the historical and cultural landscape. With more than 300 photographs, Latinas in the United States offers a mosaic of historical experiences, detailing how Latinas have shaped their own lives, cultures, and communities through mutual assistance and collective action, while confronting the pressures of colonialism, racism, discrimination, sexism, and poverty. "Meant for scholars and general readers, this is a great resource on Latinas and historical topics connected with them." -- curledup.com |
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Abarca Apolonia Polly Muñoz | 29 |
Acosta Lucy | 30 |
Acosta Vice Celia M | 31 |
Maquiladoras | 420 |
Mariachi | 421 |
Mariachi Estrella de Topeka | 422 |
Marianismo and Machismo | 423 |
Marshall Guadalupe | 424 |
Martí de Cid Dolores | 425 |
Martínez Agueda Salazar | 426 |
Martínez Demetria | 428 |
Aging | 33 |
Agostini del Río Amelia | 35 |
Albelo Carmen | 36 |
Alfau Galván de Solalinde Jesusa | 37 |
Allende Isabel | 38 |
Altars | 40 |
Alvarez Aida | 41 |
Alvarez Cecilia Concepción | 42 |
Alvarez Delia | 43 |
Alvarez Julia | 44 |
Alvarez v Lemon Grove School District | 45 |
Americanization Programs | 46 |
Antonetty Evelina López | 48 |
Antonio Maceo Brigade | 49 |
Anzaldúa Gloria | 51 |
Apodaca Felicitas | 52 |
Aprenda y Superese | 54 |
Arballo María Feliciana | 55 |
Arguello María de la ConcepciónSister María Dominica | 56 |
Arías Anna María | 57 |
Arizona Orphan Abduction | 58 |
Armiño Franca de | 59 |
Arocho Juanita | 60 |
Arroyo Carmen E | 61 |
Arroyo Martina | 62 |
Artists | 63 |
ASPIRA | 68 |
ASPIRA v New York City Board of Education | 69 |
Avila Modesta | 70 |
Aztlán | 71 |
Babín María Teresa | 74 |
Baca Barragán Polly | 75 |
Baez Joan Chandos | 76 |
Barceló María Gertrudis La Tules | 78 |
Barnard Juana Josefina Cavasos | 79 |
Barraza Santa Contreras | 80 |
Barrera Plácida Peña | 81 |
Belpré Pura | 83 |
Bencomo Julieta Saucedo | 84 |
Bernal Martha | 85 |
Bernasconi Socorro Hernández | 86 |
Betances Jaeger Clotilde | 87 |
Betanzos Amalia V | 88 |
Black Legend | 90 |
Blake María DeCastro | 91 |
Borrero Pierra Juana | 93 |
Boyar Monica | 94 |
Bozak Carmen Contreras | 95 |
Bracero Program | 96 |
Braga Sonia | 99 |
Burciaga Mirna Ramos | 100 |
Caballero Diana | 103 |
Cabeza de Baca Fabiola | 104 |
Cabrera Angelina Angie | 105 |
Cabrera Lydia | 106 |
Calderón Rose Marie | 107 |
California Missions | 108 |
California Sanitary Canning Company Strike | 110 |
Callejo Adelfa Botello | 111 |
Callis de Fages Eulalia Francesca y Josepha | 112 |
Calvillo Ana María del Carmen | 113 |
Canales Laura | 114 |
Canales Nohelia de los Angeles | 115 |
Canino María Josefa | 116 |
Cannery and Agricultural WorkersIndustrial Union CAWIU | 117 |
Cántico de la Mujer Latina | 118 |
Capetillo Luisa | 119 |
Cardona Alice | 120 |
Carr Vikki | 121 |
Carrillo de Fitch Josefa | 122 |
Casal Lourdes | 123 |
Casals Rosemary | 124 |
Casanova de Villaverde Emilia | 125 |
Casita Maria New York | 126 |
Castillo Ana | 128 |
Castillo Guadalupe | 129 |
Castro Rosie | 130 |
Castro Victoria M Vickie | 131 |
Ceja Amelia Moran | 132 |
Central American Immigrant Women | 134 |
Centro de Acción Social Autónomo CASA | 137 |
Centro Hispano Católico | 139 |
CepedaLeonardo Margarita | 140 |
Chabram Angie González | 142 |
Chacón Soledad Chávez | 143 |
Charo María Rosario Pilar MartínezMolina Baeza | 144 |
Chávez Helen | 146 |
Chávez Linda | 147 |
Chávez Ravine Los Angeles | 148 |
ChávezThompson Linda | 149 |
Chicana CaucusNational WomensPolitical Caucus | 150 |
Chicana Rights Project | 151 |
Chicanos Por La Causa CPLC | 155 |
Cigar Workers | 156 |
Cinema Images Contemporary | 159 |
Círculo Cultural Isabel la Católica | 161 |
Clínica de la Beneficencia Mexicana | 162 |
Collazo Rosa Cortéz | 163 |
Colón Miriam | 164 |
Colón Rufa Concepción FernándezConcha | 166 |
Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional CFMN | 167 |
Communist Party | 168 |
Communities Organized for PublicService COPS | 169 |
Community Service Organization CSO | 170 |
Congreso del Pueblo | 172 |
Córdova Lina | 173 |
Corridos | 175 |
Cossio y Cisneros Evangelina | 176 |
Cotera Martha | 177 |
Crawford Mercedes Margarita Martínez | 178 |
Cruz Celia | 179 |
Cuban and Puerto Rican Revolutionary Party | 181 |
Cuban Independence Womens Clubs | 182 |
Cuban Womens Club | 183 |
CubanSpanishAmerican War | 184 |
Cuero Delfina | 185 |
Davis Grace Montañez | 187 |
De Acosta Aida | 188 |
De Acosta Mercedes | 189 |
De Aragón Uva | 190 |
De Arteaga Genoveva | 191 |
De Avila Dolores C | 192 |
De Burgos Julia | 193 |
De la Cruz Jessie López | 194 |
De la Cruz Sor Juana Inés | 196 |
De la Garza Beatríz | 197 |
De León Patricia de la Garza | 198 |
Del Castillo Adelaida Rebecca | 199 |
Del Prado Pura | 200 |
Del Río Dolores | 201 |
Del Valle Carmen | 202 |
Delgado Jane L | 203 |
Demography | 204 |
Deportations during the Great Depression | 209 |
DiMartino Rita | 211 |
Dimas Beatrice Escadero | 212 |
Domestic Violence | 214 |
Domestic Workers | 216 |
Dominican American NationalRoundtable DANR | 217 |
Dueto Carmen y Laura | 218 |
Durazo María Elena | 219 |
Echaveste María | 221 |
Education | 222 |
El Congreso de Pueblos de Hablan Española | 226 |
El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de AztlánMEChA | 227 |
El Paso Laundry Strike | 228 |
El Rescate | 229 |
Environment and the Border | 232 |
Escajeda Josefina | 236 |
Escobar Carmen Bernal | 237 |
Espaillat Rhina P | 238 |
EspinosaMora Deborah | 239 |
Esquivel Gregoria | 240 |
Esquivel Yolanda Almaraz | 241 |
Estefan Gloria | 242 |
Esteves Sandra María | 243 |
Family | 245 |
Farah Strike | 249 |
Farmworkers | 250 |
Feminism | 253 |
Fernández Beatrice Gigi | 255 |
Fernández Rosita | 256 |
Ferré Aguayo Sor Isolina | 257 |
Fierro Josefina | 259 |
Figueroa Belén | 260 |
Figueroa Mercado Loida | 261 |
Flores Diana | 263 |
Flores Francisca | 264 |
Florez Encarnación Villarreal Escobedo | 265 |
Folk Healing Traditions | 266 |
Fontañez Jovita | 270 |
Friendly House Phoenix | 271 |
Fuerza Unida | 272 |
Gallegos Carmen Cornejo | 274 |
Gangs | 276 |
García Cristina | 278 |
García Eva Carrillo de | 280 |
García Cortese Aimee | 282 |
GarcíaAguilera Carolina | 283 |
Garcíaz María | 284 |
Garment Industry | 285 |
Giant | 286 |
Gómez Carbonell María | 288 |
GómezPotter Socorro | 289 |
Gonzáles Elvira Rodríguez de | 290 |
González Matiana | 292 |
Govea Jessica | 294 |
Grau María Leopoldina Pola | 295 |
Great Depression and MexicanAmerican Women | 297 |
Guerra Fermina | 300 |
Guerrero Victoria Partida | 302 |
Guillen Herrera Rosalinda | 303 |
Gutiérrez Luz Bazán | 305 |
Guzmán Madre María Dominga | 306 |
Hamlin Rosalie Méndez | 308 |
Hayworth Rita | 309 |
Head Start | 310 |
Current Issues and Trends | 311 |
Henríquez Ureña Camila | 315 |
Hernández Antonia | 317 |
Hernández Ester | 318 |
Hernández María Latigo | 319 |
Hernández Olivia | 320 |
Hernández Victoria | 322 |
Herrada Elena | 323 |
Herrera Carolina | 324 |
Herrera María Cristina | 325 |
Hijas de Cuauhtémoc | 326 |
Hinojosa Tish | 327 |
Hispanic MotherDaughter ProgramHMDP | 328 |
Houchen Settlement El Paso | 329 |
Huerta Cecilia Olivarez | 331 |
Huerta Dolores | 332 |
HullHouse Chicago | 333 |
Idar Juárez Jovita | 336 |
Immigration of Latinas to the United States | 337 |
Immigration Reform and Control Act IRCA | 341 |
Intermarriage Contemporary | 342 |
Intermarriage Historical | 344 |
International Ladies Garment WorkersUnion ILGWU | 348 |
Jaramillo Cleofas Martínez | 351 |
Jiménez María de los Angeles | 352 |
Journalism and Print Media | 353 |
Jurado Katy | 358 |
Kimbell Sylvia Rodríguez | 359 |
Kissinger Beatrice Amado | 360 |
La Llorona | 362 |
La Lupe Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond | 363 |
La Malinche Malinalli Tenepal | 364 |
La Mujer Obrera | 366 |
La Raza Unida Party | 367 |
Labor Unions | 368 |
Lares Michelle Yvette Shelly | 372 |
Las Hermanas | 373 |
Latina US Treasurers | 374 |
Latinas in the US Congress | 375 |
League of United Latin AmericanCitizens LULAC | 378 |
Lebrón Dolores Lolita | 380 |
Ledesma Josephine | 381 |
Lee Tapia Consuelo | 382 |
Legal Issues | 383 |
León Ruth Esther SotoLa Hermana León | 384 |
León Tania | 385 |
Lesbians | 386 |
Letter from Chapultepec | 388 |
Liberation Theology | 389 |
Líderes Campesinas | 390 |
Literature | 392 |
Lobo Rebecca Rose | 396 |
Lomas Garza Carmen | 397 |
López Lillian | 401 |
López María I | 402 |
López Nancy Marie | 403 |
López Yolanda | 404 |
López Córdova Gloria | 406 |
Lorenzana Apolinaria | 407 |
Los Angeles Garment Workers Strike | 408 |
Lozano Alicia Guadalupe Elizondo | 410 |
Lozano Emma | 411 |
Lozano Mónica Cecilia | 412 |
Lucas María Elena | 413 |
Machuca Ester | 415 |
Madrigal v Quilligan | 416 |
Maldonado Amelia Margarita | 419 |
Martínez Elizabeth Sutherland Betita | 429 |
Martínez Frances Aldama | 430 |
Martínez Vilma S | 431 |
Martínez Santaella Inocencia | 433 |
Mederos y Cabañas de González Elena Inés | 434 |
Media Stereotypes | 436 |
Medicine | 438 |
Medina Esther | 440 |
Meléndez Concha | 441 |
Meléndez Sara | 442 |
Méndez Consuelo Herrera | 443 |
Méndez Olga A | 444 |
Méndez v Westminster | 445 |
Mendieta Ana | 447 |
Mendoza Lydia | 448 |
Mendoza v Tucson School District No 1 | 450 |
Mercado Victoria Vicky | 451 |
MesaBains Amalia | 452 |
Mestizaje | 453 |
Mexican American Legal Defense andEducational Fund MALDEF | 457 |
Mexican American Womens NationalAssociation MANA | 458 |
Mexican Mothers Club University ofChicago Settlement House | 459 |
Mexican Revolution | 460 |
Mexican Revolution Border Women in | 464 |
Mexican Schools | 466 |
Migration and Labor | 468 |
Military Service | 473 |
Miller Esther | 475 |
Mining Communities | 476 |
Miranda Carmen | 478 |
Mistral Gabriela Lucila Godoy Alcayaga | 479 |
Mohr Nicholasa | 480 |
MojicaHammer Ruth | 481 |
Molina Gloria | 482 |
Montemayor Alice Dickerson | 483 |
MontesDonnelly Elba Iris | 484 |
Montez María María Africa Gracia Vidal | 485 |
Mora Magdalena | 487 |
Mora Patricia Pat | 488 |
Moraga Gloria Flores | 489 |
Morales Iris | 491 |
MoralesHorowitz Nilda M | 492 |
Moreno Rita Rosa Dolores Alverio | 494 |
Morillo Irma | 496 |
Mothers of East Los Angeles MELA | 497 |
Mugarrieta Elvira Virginia Babe BeanJack Bee Garland | 502 |
Mujeres in Action Sunset Park Brooklyn | 503 |
Mujeres Latinas en Acción MLEA | 505 |
Mujeres por la Raza | 506 |
Mujerista Theology | 507 |
Munguía Carolina Malpica de | 508 |
Muñoz María del Carmen | 509 |
National Association for Chicana andChicano Studies NACCS | 510 |
National Association of Puerto RicanHispanicSocial Workers NAPRHSW | 511 |
National Chicana Conference | 512 |
National Conference of Puerto RicanWomen NACOPRW | 513 |
National Council of La Raza NCLR | 514 |
National Hispanic Feminist Conference | 515 |
National Puerto Rican Forum | 516 |
Naturalization | 517 |
Navarro M Susana | 519 |
Nerio Trinidad | 520 |
New Economics for Women NEW | 521 |
New York City Mission Society NYCMS | 522 |
Nieto Sonia | 523 |
Nieto Gómez Anna | 524 |
Norte Marisela | 525 |
Novello Antonia Coello | 526 |
Nuestra Señora de la Divina Providencia | 528 |
Núñez Ana Rosa | 529 |
Nuns Colonial | 530 |
Nuns Contemporary | 531 |
Obejas Achy | 533 |
Ochoa Ellen | 534 |
ODonnell Sylvia Colorado | 535 |
Olivarez Graciela | 537 |
Olivera Mercedes | 538 |
Ontiveros Manuela | 540 |
Operation Pedro Pan | 541 |
Orozco Aurora Estrada | 543 |
Ortega Carlota Ayala | 544 |
Ortiz Cofer Judith | 545 |
Ortiz y Pino de Kleven MaríaConcepción Concha | 546 |
OShea María Elena | 547 |
OteroSmart Ingrid | 548 |
OteroWarren Adelina | 549 |
Pachucas | 552 |
PalacioGrottola Sonia | 555 |
Pantoja Antonia | 557 |
Parsons Lucia González | 558 |
Patiño Río Dolores | 559 |
Pauwels Pfeiffer Linda Lorena | 561 |
Payán Ilka Tanya | 562 |
Pedroso Paulina | 563 |
Peñaranda Ana Marcial | 564 |
Pentecostal Church | 565 |
Perales Nina | 569 |
Pérez Eulalia | 570 |
Pérez Graciela | 571 |
Pérez v Sharp | 573 |
Phillips Carmen Romero | 574 |
Pilsen Neighbors Community Council | 575 |
Pinedo Encarnación | 576 |
Politics Electoral | 577 |
Politics Party | 579 |
Popular Religiosity | 581 |
Prida Dolores | 582 |
Propositions 187 and 209 | 583 |
Puerto Rican Association for CommunityAffairs PRACA | 584 |
Puerto Rican Radical Politics in New York | 585 |
Puerto Rican Women Political Prisoners | 587 |
Puerto Ricans in Hawaii | 591 |
Quesada Alicia Otilia | 596 |
Quesada Dora Ocampo | 597 |
Quinceañera | 598 |
Quintanilla Pérez Selena | 600 |
Quintero Luisa | 601 |
Race and Color Consciousness | 603 |
Ramírez Emilia Schunior | 607 |
Ramírez Sara Estela | 608 |
Ramírez Tina | 609 |
Rangel Irma | 611 |
Reid Marita | 613 |
Reid Victoria Comicrabit | 614 |
Religion | 615 |
Reyes Guadalupe | 622 |
Rico Angelina Moreno | 623 |
Rincón de Gautier Felisa | 624 |
Rivera Aurelia Yeya | 625 |
Rivera Chita | 626 |
Rivera Graciela | 627 |
Rivera Roxana | 629 |
Rivera Martínez Domitila | 630 |
Robles Díaz Inés | 631 |
Rodríguez Hermelinda Morales | 632 |
Rodríguez Isabel Hernández | 633 |
Rodríguez Josefa Chepita | 634 |
Rodríguez Sofía | 636 |
Rodríguez Cabral María Cristina | 637 |
Rodríguez McLean Verneda | 639 |
Rodríguez Remeneski Shirley | 640 |
RodríguezTrias Helen | 641 |
Romero Cash Marie | 643 |
Rosado Rousseau Leoncia Mamá Léo | 644 |
RosLehtinen Ileana | 645 |
RoybalAllard Lucille | 646 |
Ruiz Bernarda | 647 |
Ruiz Irene Hernández | 649 |
Ruiz de Burton María Amparo | 650 |
Sada María G Chata | 652 |
Salt of the Earth | 656 |
San Antonio Ana Gloria | 657 |
San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike | 658 |
San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike | 659 |
San Juan Olga | 662 |
Sánchez María Clemencia | 663 |
Sánchez María E | 664 |
Sánchez Cruz Rebecca | 666 |
Sánchez Garfunkel Aura Luz | 667 |
Santería | 669 |
Santiago Petra | 670 |
Saralegui Cristina | 672 |
Saucedo María del Jesús | 673 |
Schechter Esperanza AcostaMendoza Hope | 674 |
Scientists | 675 |
Sena Elvira | 679 |
Sepúlveda Emma | 680 |
Sexuality | 681 |
Silva Chelo | 682 |
Sister Carmelita Carmela ZapataBonilla Marrero | 683 |
Slavery | 684 |
SlossVento Adela | 686 |
Smeltertown El Paso | 687 |
Smith Plácida Elvira García | 689 |
Soldaderas | 690 |
Solis Hilda L | 691 |
SosaRiddell Adaljiza | 692 |
Soto Feliciano Carmen Lillian Lily | 694 |
Souchet Clementina | 695 |
Southwest Voter Registration EducationProject SVREP | 696 |
Spanish Borderlands | 697 |
Colonial Law | 700 |
Comadrazgo | 703 |
Early Settlement Life in the Borderlands | 704 |
Encomienda | 708 |
Women in California | 709 |
Women in New Mexico | 710 |
Women in St Augustine | 714 |
Women in Texas | 716 |
Womens Wills | 719 |
Spiritism | 720 |
Spiritism in New York City | 721 |
Sterilization | 723 |
Street Vending | 725 |
Student Movements | 727 |
Substitute Auxiliary Teachers SATs | 728 |
Swilling Trinidad Escalante | 730 |
Tabaqueros Unions | 732 |
Talamante Olga | 733 |
Tarango Yolanda | 734 |
Telenovelas | 735 |
Television | 736 |
Tempe Normal School | 740 |
Ten Years War | 742 |
Tenayuca Emma | 743 |
TexSon Strike | 745 |
Theater | 746 |
Padua Hills Theater | 748 |
Puerto Rican Traveling Theater PRTT | 751 |
Teatro Campesino | 752 |
Villalongín Dramatic Company | 753 |
TorañoPantín María Elena | 754 |
Torres Alva | 756 |
Torres Ida Inés | 757 |
Torres Lourdes | 758 |
Torres Patsy Patricia Donita | 759 |
Tovar Lupita | 760 |
Toypurina | 761 |
Trambley Estela Portillo | 762 |
Treaty of Paris | 766 |
Tufiño Nitza | 767 |
Ulibarrí Sánchez Louise | 769 |
United Cannery Agricultural Packingand Allied Workers of AmericaUCAPAWAFTA | 770 |
United Farm Workers of America UFW | 772 |
Women in the United FarmWorkers UFW | 773 |
USMexican War | 776 |
Urquides María Luisa Legarra | 779 |
Urrea Teresa | 780 |
Valdez Patssi | 782 |
Vallejo Epifania de Guadalupe | 783 |
Vallejo de Leese María Paula Rosalía | 784 |
Vanguardia Puertorriqueña | 785 |
Varela Beatriz | 786 |
Varela María | 787 |
Vásquez Anna | 788 |
Vásquez Enriqueta Longeaux y | 789 |
Velázquez Loreta Janeta | 790 |
Velázquez Nydia M | 791 |
Vélez Lupe | 793 |
VélezMitchell Anita | 795 |
Vicioso Sánchez Sherezada Chiqui | 797 |
Vidal Irma | 798 |
Vidaurri Rita | 799 |
Villarreal Andrea and Teresa | 800 |
Virgen de Guadalupe | 801 |
Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre | 803 |
Voting Rights Act | 804 |
Watsonville Strike | 805 |
Welch Raquel | 806 |
West Side Story | 807 |
Wilcox Mary Rose Garrido | 808 |
Wolf Esther Valladolid | 809 |
World War II | 810 |
Ybarra Eva | 815 |
Zamora Bernice B Ortiz | 818 |
Zárate Rosa Marta | 819 |
Zúñiga Alejandra Rojas | 820 |
List of Biographical Entries | 823 |
List of Organizations | 829 |
Selected Readings in Latina History | 831 |
Notes on Contributors | 835 |
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