| Description |
1 online resource (3 volumes (xx, 885 pages)) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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Vol. 1. Latinas in the Southwest -- Latinas in the Northeast -- Latinas in the Midwest -- Latinas in the Southeast -- Latinas in the Pacific Northwest -- Abarca, Apolonia "Polly" Muñoz -- Acosta, Lucy -- Acosta Vice, Celia M. -- Aging -- Agostini del Río, Amelia -- Alatorre, Soledad "Chole" -- Albelo, Carmen -- Alfau Galván de Solalinde, Jesusa -- Allende, Isabel -- Alonzo, Ventura -- Altars -- Alvarez, Aida -- Alvarez, Cecilia Concepción -- Alvarez, Delia -- Alvarez, Julia -- Alvarez, Linda -- Alvarez v. Lemon Grove School District -- Americanization Programs -- Antonetty, Evelina López -- Antonio Maceo Brigade -- Anzaldúa, Gloria -- Apodaca, Felicitas -- Aprenda y Superese -- Aragón, Jesusita -- Arballo, María Feliciana -- Arguello, María de la Concepción (Sister María Dominica) -- Arías, Anna María -- Arizona Orphan Abduction -- Armiño, Franca de -- Arocho, Juanita -- Arroyo, Carmen E. -- Arroyo, Martina -- Artists -- Asociación Nacional México-Americana (ANMA) -- ASPIRA -- ASPIRA v. New York City Board of Education -- Avila, María Elena -- Avila, Modesta -- Aztlán -- Babín, María Teresa -- Baca, Judith Francesca -- Baca Barragán, Polly -- Baez, Joan Chandos -- Barceló, María Gertrudis ("La Tules") -- Barnard, Juana Josefina Cavasos -- Barraza, Santa Contreras -- Barrera, Plácida Peña -- Belpré, Pura -- Bencomo, Julieta Saucedo -- Bernal, Martha -- Bernasconi, Socorro Hernández -- Betances Jaeger, Clotilde -- Betanzos, Amalia V. -- Bilingual Education -- Black Legend -- Blake, María DeCastro -- Borrero Pierra, Juana -- Boyar, Monica -- Bozak, Carmen Contreras -- Bracero Program -- Braga, Sonia -- Briones, María Juana -- Burciaga, Mirna Ramos -- Caballero, Diana -- Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola -- Cabrera, Angelina "Angie" -- Cabrera, Lydia -- Calderón, Rose Marie -- California Missions -- California Sanitary Canning Company Strike -- Callejo, Adelfa Botello -- Callis de Fages, Eulalia Francesca y Josepha -- Calvillo, Ana María del Carmen -- Canales, Laura -- Canales, Nohelia de los Angeles -- Canino, María Josefa -- Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU) -- Cántico de la Mujer Latina -- Capetillo, Luisa -- Carbonell, Anna -- Cardona, Alice -- Carr, Vikki -- Carrillo de Fitch, Josefa -- Casal, Lourdes -- Casals, Rosemary -- Casanova de Villaverde, Emilia -- Casita Maria, New York -- Castillo, Ana -- Castillo, Guadalupe -- Castro, Rosie -- Castro, Victoria M. "Vickie" -- Ceja, Amelia Moran -- Central American Immigrant Women -- Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA) -- Centro Hispano Católico -- Centro Mater -- Cepeda-Leonardo, Margarita -- Cervantes, Lorna Dee -- Chabram, Angie González -- Chacón, Soledad Chávez -- "Charo" (María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza) -- Chávez, Denise -- Chávez, Helen -- Chávez, Linda -- Chávez Ravine, Los Angeles -- Chávez-Thompson, Linda -- Chicana Caucus/National Women's Political Caucus -- Chicana Rights Project -- Chicano Movement -- Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) -- Cigar Workers -- Cinema Images, Contemporary -- Círculo Cultural Isabel la Católica -- Cisneros, Sandra -- Clínica de la Beneficencia Mexicana -- Collazo, Rosa Cortéz -- Colón, Miriam -- Colón, Rufa Concepción Fernández ("Concha") -- Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN) -- Communist Party -- Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS) -- Community Service Organization (CSO) -- Congreso del Pueblo -- Córdova, Lina -- Corridos -- Cossio y Cisneros, Evangelina -- Cotera, Martha -- Crawford, Mercedes Margarita Martínez -- Cruz, Celia -- Cuban and Puerto Rican Revolutionary Party -- Cuban Independence Women's Clubs -- Cuban Women's Club -- Cuban-Spanish-American War -- Cuero, Delfina -- Davis, Grace Montañez -- De Acosta, Aida -- De Acosta, Mercedes -- De Aragón, Uva -- De Arteaga, Genoveva -- De Avila, Dolores C. -- De Burgos, Julia -- De la Cruz, Jessie López -- De la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés -- De la Garza, Beatríz -- De León, Patricia de la Garza -- Del Castillo, Adelaida Rebecca -- Del Prado, Pura -- Del Río, Dolores -- Del Valle, Carmen -- Delgado, Jane L. -- Demography -- Deportations during the Great Depression -- DiMartino, Rita -- Dimas, Beatrice Escadero -- Domestic Violence -- Domestic Workers -- Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR) -- Dueto Carmen y Laura -- Durazo, María Elena -- Echaveste, María -- Education -- El Congreso de Pueblos de Hablan Española -- El Monte Berry Strike -- El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) -- El Paso Laundry Strike -- El Rescate -- Entrepreneurs -- Environment and the Border -- Escajeda, Josefina -- Escalona, Beatríz ("La Chata Noloesca") -- Escobar, Carmen Bernal -- Espaillat, Rhina P. -- Espinosa-Mora, Deborah -- Esquivel, Gregoria -- Esquivel, Yolanda Almaraz -- Estefan, Gloria -- Esteves, Sandra María -- Family -- Farah Strike -- Farmworkers -- Feminism -- Fernández, Beatrice "Gigi" -- Fernández, Mary Joe -- Fernández, Rosita -- Ferré Aguayo, Sor Isolina -- Fierro, Josefina -- Figueroa, Belén -- Figueroa Mercado, Loida -- Flores, Diana -- Flores, Francisca -- Florez, Encarnación Villarreal Escobedo -- Folk Healing Traditions -- Fontañez, Jovita -- Fornés, María Irene -- Friendly House, Phoenix -- Fuerza Unida -- Gallegos, Carmen Cornejo -- Ganados del Valle -- Gangs -- García, Cristina -- García, Eva Carrillo de -- García, Providencia "Provi" -- García Cortese, Aimee -- García-Aguilera, Carolina -- Garcíaz, María -- Garment Industry -- Giant -- Gómez Carbonell, María -- Gómez-Potter, Socorro -- Gonzáles, Elvira Rodríguez de -- González, Laura -- González, Matiana -- González Mireles, Jovita -- Govea, Jessica -- Grau, María Leopoldina "Pola" -- Great Depression and Mexican American Women -- Guerra, Fermina -- Guerrero, Rosa -- Guerrero, Victoria Partida -- Guillen Herrera, Rosalinda -- Gutiérrez, Luz Bazán -- Guzmán, Madre María Dominga |
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Vol. 2. Hamlin, Rosalie Méndez -- Hayworth, Rita -- Head Start -- Health: Current Issues and Trends -- Henríquez Ureña, Camila -- Hernández, Antonia -- Hernández, Ester -- Hernández, María Latigo -- Hernández, Olivia -- Hernández, Victoria -- Herrada, Elena -- Herrera, Carolina -- Herrera, María Cristina -- Hijas de Cuauhtémoc -- Hinojosa, Tish -- Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program (HMDP) -- Houchen Settlement, El Paso -- Huerta, Cecilia Olivarez -- Huerta, Dolores -- Hull-House, Chicago -- Idar Juárez, Jovita -- Immigration of Latinas to the United States -- Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) -- Intermarriage, Contemporary -- Intermarriage, Historical -- International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) -- Jaramillo, Cleofas Martínez -- Jiménez, María de los Angeles -- Journalism and Print Media -- Jurado, Katy -- Kimbell, Sylvia Rodríguez -- Kissinger, Beatrice Amado -- La Llorona -- "La Lupe" (Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond) -- La Malinche (Malinalli Tenepal) -- La Mujer Obrera -- La Raza Unida Party -- Labor Unions -- Lares, Michelle Yvette "Shelly" -- Las Hermanas -- Latina U.S. Treasurers -- Latinas in the U.S. Congress -- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) -- Lebrón, Dolores "Lolita" -- Ledesma, Josephine -- Lee Tapia, Consuelo -- Legal Issues -- León, Ruth Esther Soto ("La Hermana León") -- León, Tania -- Lesbians -- "Letter from Chapultepec" -- Liberation Theology -- Líderes Campesinas -- Literature -- Lobo, Rebecca Rose -- Lomas Garza, Carmen -- Lone Star -- López, Lillian -- López, María I. -- López, Nancy Marie -- López, Rosie -- López, Yolanda -- López Córdova, Gloria -- Lorenzana, Apolinaria -- Los Angeles Garment Workers' Strike -- Lozano, Alicia Guadalupe Elizondo -- Lozano, Emma -- Lozano, Mónica Cecilia -- Lucas, María Elena -- Machuca, Ester -- Madrid, Patricia A. -- Madrigal v. Quilligan -- Maldonado, Amelia Margarita -- Maquiladoras -- Mariachi -- Mariachi Estrella de Topeka -- Marianismo and Machismo -- Marshall, Guadalupe -- Martí de Cid, Dolores -- Martínez, Agueda Salazar -- Martínez, Anita N. -- Martínez, Demetria -- Martínez, Elizabeth Sutherland "Betita" -- Martínez, Frances Aldama -- Martínez, Vilma S. -- Martínez Santaella, Inocencia -- McBride, Teresa N. -- Mederos y Cabañas de González, Elena Inés -- Media Stereotypes -- Medicine -- Medina, Esther -- Meléndez, Concha -- Meléndez, Sara -- Méndez, Consuelo Herrera -- Méndez, Olga A. -- Méndez v. Westminster -- Mendieta, Ana -- Mendoza, Lydia -- Mendoza, María Estella Altamirano -- Mendoza v. Tucson School District No. -- Mercado, Victoria "Vicky" -- Mesa-Bains, Amalia -- Mestizaje -- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) -- Mexican American Women's National Association (MANA) -- Mexican Mothers' Club, University of Chicago Settlement House -- Mexican Revolution -- Mexican Revolution, Border Women in -- Mexican Schools -- Migration and Labor -- Military Service -- Miller, Esther -- Mining Communities -- Miranda, Carmen -- Mistral, Gabriela (Lucila Godoy Alcayaga) -- Mohr, Nicholasa -- Mojica-Hammer, Ruth -- Molina, Gloria -- Montemayor, Alice Dickerson -- Montes-Donnelly, Elba Iris -- Montez, María (María Africa Gracia Vidal) -- Mora, Magdalena -- Mora, Patricia "Pat" -- Moraga, Cherríe -- Moraga, Gloria Flores -- Morales, Iris -- Morales-Horowitz, Nilda M. -- Moreno, Luisa -- Moreno, Rita (Rosa Dolores Alverio) -- Morillo, Irma -- Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA) -- Movie Stars -- Mugarrieta, Elvira Virginia (Babe Bean; Jack Bee Garland) -- Mujeres in Action, Sunset Park, Brooklyn -- Mujeres Latinas en Acción (MLEA) -- Mujeres por la Raza -- Mujerista Theology -- Munguía, Carolina Malpica de -- Muñoz, María del Carmen -- National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) -- National Association of Puerto Rican/Hispanic Social Workers (NAPRHSW) -- National Chicana Conference -- National Conference of Puerto Rican Women (NACOPRW) -- National Council of La Raza (NCLR) -- National Hispanic Feminist Conference -- National Puerto Rican Forum -- Naturalization -- Navarro, M. Susana -- Nerio, Trinidad -- New Economics for Women (NEW) -- New York City Mission Society (NYCMS) -- Nieto, Sonia -- Nieto Gómez, Anna -- Norte, Marisela -- Novello, Antonia Coello -- Nuestra Señora de la Divina Providencia -- Núñez, Ana Rosa -- Nuns, Colonial -- Nuns, Contemporary -- Obejas, Achy -- Ochoa, Ellen -- O'Donnell, Sylvia Colorado -- Olivares, Olga Ballesteros -- Olivarez, Graciela -- Olivera, Mercedes -- Ontiveros, Manuela -- Operation Pedro Pan -- Orozco, Aurora Estrada -- Ortega, Carlota Ayala -- Ortiz Cofer, Judith -- Ortiz y Pino de Kleven, María Concepción "Concha" -- O'Shea, María Elena -- Otero-Smart, Ingrid -- Otero-Warren, Adelina -- Pachucas -- Palacio-Grottola, Sonia -- Pantoja, Antonia -- Parsons, Lucia González -- Patiño Río, Dolores -- Pauwels Pfeiffer, Linda Lorena -- Payán, Ilka Tanya -- Pedroso, Paulina -- Peña de Bordas, (Ana) Virginia de -- Peñaranda, Ana Marcial -- Pentecostal Church -- Perales, Nina -- Pérez, Eulalia -- Pérez, Graciela -- Pérez v. Sharp -- Phelps Dodge Strike -- Phillips, Carmen Romero -- Pilsen Neighbors Community Council -- Pinedo, Encarnación -- Politics, Electoral -- Politics, Party -- Popular Religiosity -- Prida, Dolores -- Propositions -- Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs (PRACA) -- Puerto Rican Radical Politics in New York -- Puerto Rican Women Political Prisoners -- Puerto Ricans in Hawaii |
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Vol. 3. Quesada, Alicia Otilia -- Quesada, Dora Ocampo -- Quinceañera -- Quintanilla Pérez, Selena -- Quintero, Luisa -- Race and Color Consciousness -- Ramírez, Emilia Schunior -- Ramírez, Sara Estela -- Ramírez, Tina -- Ramírez de Arellano, Diana -- Rangel, Irma -- Rape -- Reid, Marita -- Reid, Victoria Comicrabit -- Religion -- Reyes, Guadalupe -- Rico, Angelina Moreno -- Rincón de Gautier, Felisa -- Rivera, Aurelia "Yeya" -- Rivera, Chita -- Rivera, Graciela -- Rivera, Roxana -- Rivera Martínez, Domitila -- Robles Díaz, Inés -- Rodríguez, Hermelinda Morales -- Rodríguez, "Isabel" Hernández -- Rodríguez, Josefa "Chepita" -- Rodríguez, Patricia -- Rodríguez, Sofía -- Rodríguez Cabral, María Cristina -- Rodríguez de Tió, Lola -- Rodríguez McLean, Verneda -- Rodríguez Remeneski, Shirley -- Rodríguez-Trias, Helen -- Romero Cash, Marie -- Rosado Rousseau, Leoncia ("Mamá Léo") -- Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana -- Roybal-Allard, Lucille -- Ruiz, Bernarda -- Ruiz, Irene Hernández -- Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo -- Sada, María G. "Chata" -- Salsa -- Salt of the Earth -- San Antonio, Ana Gloria -- San Antonio Pecan Shellers' Strike -- San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike -- San Juan, Olga -- Sánchez, Loretta -- Sánchez, María Clemencia -- Sánchez, María E. -- Sánchez Cruz, Rebecca -- Sánchez Garfunkel, Aura Luz -- Santería -- Santiago, Petra -- Saralegui, Cristina -- Saucedo, María del Jesús -- Schechter, Esperanza Acosta Mendoza "Hope" -- Scientists -- Sena, Elvira -- Sepúlveda, Emma -- Sexuality -- Silva, Chelo -- Silva de Cintrón, Josefina "Pepiña" -- "Sister Carmelita" (Carmela Zapata Bonilla Marrero) -- Slavery -- Sloss-Vento, Adela -- Smeltertown, El Paso -- Smith, Plácida Elvira García -- Soldaderas -- Solis, Hilda L. -- Sosa-Riddell, Adaljiza -- Soto Feliciano, Carmen Lillian "Lily" -- Souchet, Clementina -- Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) -- Spanish Borderlands -- Colonial Law -- Comadrazgo -- Early Settlement Life in the Borderlands -- Encomienda -- Women in California -- Women in New Mexico -- Women in St. Augustine -- Women in Texas -- Women's Wills -- Spiritism -- Spiritism in New York City -- Sterilization -- Street Vending -- Student Movements -- Substitute Auxiliary Teachers (SATs) -- Swilling, Trinidad Escalante -- Tabaqueros' Unions -- Talamante, Olga -- Tarango, Yolanda -- Telenovelas -- Television -- Tempe Normal School -- Ten Years' War -- Tenayuca, Emma -- Tex-Son Strike -- Theater -- Padua Hills Theater -- Playwrights -- Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT) -- Teatro Campesino -- Villalongín Dramatic Company -- Toraño-Pantín, María Elena -- Torres, Alva -- Torres, Ida Inés -- Torres, Lourdes -- Torres, Patsy (Patricia Donita) -- Tovar, Lupita -- Toypurina -- Trambley, Estela Portillo -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- Treaty of Paris -- Treviño-Sauceda, Mily -- Tufiño, Nitza -- Ulibarrí Sánchez, Louise -- United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA/FTA) -- United Farm Workers of America (UFW) -- Women in the United Farm Workers (UFW) -- U.S.-Mexican War -- Urquides, María Luisa Legarra -- Urrea, Teresa -- Valdez, Patssi -- Vallejo, Epifania de Guadalupe -- Vallejo de Leese, María Paula Rosalía -- Vanguardia Puertorriqueña -- Varela, Beatriz -- Varela, María -- Vásquez, Anna -- Vásquez, Enriqueta Longeaux y -- Velázquez, Loreta Janeta -- Velázquez, Nydia M. -- Vélez, Lupe -- Vélez de Vando, Emelí -- Vélez-Mitchell, Anita -- Vicioso Sánchez, Sherezada "Chiqui" -- Vidal, Irma -- Vidaurri, Rita -- Villarreal, Andrea and Teresa -- Viramontes, Helena María -- Virgen de Guadalupe -- Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre -- Voting Rights Act -- Watsonville Strike -- Welch, Raquel -- West Side Story -- Wilcox, Mary Rose Garrido -- Wolf, Esther Valladolid -- World War II -- Ybarra, Eva -- Young Lords -- Zamora, Bernice B. Ortiz -- Zárate, Rosa Marta -- Zúñiga, Alejandra Rojas -- List of Biographical Entries -- List of Organizations -- Selected Readings in Latina History |
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Vol. 1: Introduction, Abarca -- Guzman -- Vol. 2: Hamlin -- Puerto Ricans in Hawaii -- Vol. 3: Quesada -- Zuniga, Index |
| Summary |
A comprehensive, historical encyclopedia that covers the full range of Latina economic, political, and cultural life in the United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hispanic American women -- Biography -- Encyclopedias
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Hispanic American women
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ruíz, Vicki.
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Sánchez Korrol, Virginia.
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| LC no. |
2005034986 |
| ISBN |
0253111692 |
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9780253111692 |
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