Latina Legacies Identity, Biography, and Community [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction,Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia S?nchez Korrol

1. Victoria Reid and the Politics of Identity,Mar?a Raquel Casas
2. Gertrudis Barcel?: La Tules of Image and Reality,Deena J. Gonz?lez
3. The Adventurs of Loreta Janeta Vel?zquez: Civil War Spy and Storyteller,Amy Dockser Marcus
4. Mar?a Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Power of Her Pen,Rosaura S?nchez and Beatrice Pita
5. Lola Rodr?guez de Ti? and the Puerto Rican Struggle for Freedom, Edna Acosta-Bel?n
6. Teresa Urrea:Curanderaand the Folk Saint,Marian Perales
7. Luisa Capetillo: Feminist of the Working Class,Nancy A. Hewitt
8. Adelina Otero Warren: Rural Aristocrat and the Modern Feminist:Elizabeth Salas
9. Pura Belpr?: The Children's Ambassador:Lisa S?nchez Gonz?lez
10. Jovita Gonz?lez Mireles: A Sense of History and Homeland,Mar?a Eugenia Cotera
11. Luisa Moreno and Latina Labor Activism,Vicki L. Ruiz
12. Carmen Miranda: The High Price of Fame and Bananas,Brian O'Neil
13. Antonia Pantoja and the Power of Community Action,Virginia S?nchez Korrol
14. Ana Mendieta's Art: A JOurney through Her Life,Carlos A. Cruz
15. Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers,Alicia Ch?vez

Latina Legaciesis a marvelous addition to the American Studies literature documenting the lives of exemplary Latinas as diverse as Luisa Moreno, Carmen Miranda, and Teresa Urrea. Telling the stories of women of various classes, of hybrid racial identities, of diverse plsì