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500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Anos de La Mujer Chicana
Elizabeth (Harvard Medical School And Massachusetts General Hospital) Martinez
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Description for 500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Anos de La Mujer Chicana
Num Pages: 340 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 953.
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 Women’s 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 ... Read more
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 Women’s 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813542249
SKU
V9780813542249
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Elizabeth (Harvard Medical School And Massachusetts General Hospital) Martinez
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez 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.
Reviews for 500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Anos de La Mujer Chicana
"A much-needed work: this bilingual history describing feminism's role in Chicana women's lives, from pre-columbian Mexico to now."
Ms. Magazine
"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."
Professor Alma M. Garcia
author of Narratives of Mexican American ... Read more
Ms. Magazine
"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."
Professor Alma M. Garcia
author of Narratives of Mexican American ... Read more