Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

by Virginia Sánchez Korrol and Vicki L. Ruiz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195153995
• ISBN13: 9780195153996
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"