Virginia Sánchez Korrol

An extraordinary exploration of Latinas in the United States from the 1800s to the present, this collection of narrative biographies documents the lives of fifteen remarkable individuals who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. This anthology profiles Victoria Reid, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Maria Gertrudis Barcelo, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Luisa Capetillo, Lola Rodriguez de Tio, Teresa Urrea, Adelina Otero Warren, Jovita Gonzalez Mireles, Pura Belpre, Luisa Moreno, Carmen Miranda, Antonia Pantoja, Ana Mendieta, and Dolores Huerta.

Following World War II, Puerto Ricans moved to New York in record numbers and joined a community of compatriots who had emigrated decades before or were born in diaspora.In a series of vivid images, Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948-1998 brings to these immigrants' stories and struggles, culture and values, entrepreneurship, and civic, political, and educational gains. The Puerto Rican community's long history and achievements not only influenced American culture, but opened pathways for the New York's other Latino immigrant communities that would soon join them. La primera gran oleada migratoria a rea del siglo XX a Nueva York fue la de cientos de miles de puertorrique os que llegaron despu s de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. stos se un an a una nutrida comunidad de compatriotas que hab an emigrado a principios del siglo pasado y a los nacidos en la di spora. Pioneros II recrea visualmente sus historias y luchas durante estos a os de crecimiento; su trabajo, cultura y valores; esfuerzos empresariales y organizativos; la val a de su ciudadan a, y los reclamos por sus derechos civiles, educativos y pol ticos. Con sus muchos a os de historia y sus logros, la comunidad puertorrique a allana el camino para las comunidades latinas reci n llegadas.

"These four volumes in this major series . . . provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded. . . . A basic set for all academic libraries." —Library Journal Academic Newswire Examining the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin America, Navarro looks at early indigenous societies as well as the Spanish and the Portuguese who claimed the "New World." Sánchez Korrol considers the shifts in women's roles between the 1880s and 1930s and accompanying societal transformations.