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500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 anos de la mujer Chicana

Name: 500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 anos de la mujer Chicana
Author: Elizabeth S. Martinez
ISBN: 9780813542249

by Elizabeth S. Martinez

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Pages: 340
Paperback
ISBN: 9780813542249

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Overview of 500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 anos de la mujer Chicana

Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction

The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas.

500 Years of Chicana Womens History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from female-centered stories of pre-Columbian Mexico to profiles of contemporary social justice activists, labor leaders, youth organizers, artists, and environmentalists, among others. With a distinguished, seventeen-member advisory board, the book presents a remarkable combination of scholarship and youthful appeal.

In the section on jobs held by Mexicanas under U.S. rule in the 1800s, for example, readers learn about flamboyant Doña Tules, who owned a popular gambling saloon in Santa Fe, and Eulalia Arrilla de Pérez, a respected curandera (healer) in the San Diego area. Also covered are the repatriation campaigns of the Midwest during the Depression that deported both adults and children, 75 percent of whom were U.S.born and knew nothing of Mexico. Other stories include those of the garment, laundry, and cannery worker strikes, told from the perspective of Chicanas on the ground.

From the women who fought and died in the Mexican Revolution to those marching with their young children today for immigrant rights, every story draws inspiration. Like the editors previous book, 500 Years of Chicano History (still in print after 30 years), this thoroughly enriching view of Chicana womens history promises to become a classic.

About the Author, Elizabeth S. Martinez

Elizabeth "Betita" Martfnez is a widely known Chicana writer, activist, and lecturer. Now director of the Institute for Multiracial Justice in San Franciso, she has published six books, most recently De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century.

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Editorials

Ms. Magazine

"A much-needed work: this bilingual history describing feminism's role in Chicana women's lives, from pre-columbian Mexico to now."

author of Narratives of Mexican American Women - Professor Alma M. Garcia

"This history passionately shows that through unity and perseverance womencan make the world a better place for Chicanas/os and, indeed, for peoplefrom a diversity of backgrounds."