Identity, Biography, and Community
by
Vicki L. Ruiz, Virginia Sánchez Korrol
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.