Memories and migrations
Subtitle: mapping Boricua and Chicana histories
By: edited by Vicki L. Ruíz and John R. Chávez.
Contributors: Ruíz, Vicki.; Chávez, John R., 1949-; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252032387; 9780252074783
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
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas"--T.p. verso.

Papers from a symposium held on Feb. 28, 2004 at the Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Tex.

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