Memories and migrations : mapping Boricua and Chicana histories /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Other Authors:	Ruíz, Vicki, Chávez, John R., 1949-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Mexican American women > Social conditions > 20th century > Congresses. Puerto Rican women > Social conditions > 20th century > Congresses. Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Congresses. Mexicans > Migrations > History > 20th century > Congresses. Puerto Ricans > Migrations > History > 20th century > Congresses. Community life > United States > History > 20th century > Congresses. Sex role > United States > History > 20th century > Congresses. Ethnicity > United States > History > 20th century > Congresses. United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century > Congresses. United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Congresses.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. A woman's place
Creating an American home : contest and accommodation in Rockefeller's company towns / María E. Montoya
La Placita Committee : claiming place and history / Lydia R. Otero
pt. 2. Migration and settlement
Cruzando la linea : engendering the history of border Mexican children during the early twentieth century / Yolanda Chávez Leyva
Lived regionalities : mujeridad in Chicago, 1920-1940 / Gabriela F. Arredondo
"The day the dresses stopped" : Puerto Rican women, the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, and the 1958 dressmakers strike / Carmen Teresa Whalen
pt. 3. Political spaces
"The floating borderlands" : identity, farmwork, and políticas in Washington State / Elizabeth Salas
Pilgrimage to the homeland : California Chicanas and International Women's Year, Mexico City, 1975 / Marisela R. Chávez
The star in my compass : claiming intellectual space in the American landscape / Virginia Sánchez Korrol.