Latinas in the United States : a historical encyclopedia / edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2006.
Description
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Details

Subject(s)
Editor
Series
Gale eBooks
Summary note
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.
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 831-833) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • 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.; 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.; 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
ISBN
0-253-11169-2
OCLC
643556503
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...
Other views
Staff view