{"product_id":"500-years-of-chicana-womens-history-500-anos-de-la-mujer-chicana-bilingual-edition-english-and-spanish-edition","title":"500 Years of Chicana Women's History \/ 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition (English and Spanish Edition)","description":"Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction\n\nThe history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas.\n\n500 Years of Chicana Women’s History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from female-centered stories of pre-Columbian Mexico to profiles of contemporary social justice activists, labor leaders, youth organizers, artists, and environmentalists, among others. With a distinguished, seventeen-member advisory board, the book presents a remarkable combination of scholarship and youthful appeal.\n\nIn the section on jobs held by Mexicanas under U.S. rule in the 1800s, for example, readers learn about flamboyant Doña Tules, who owned a popular gambling saloon in Santa Fe, and Eulalia Arrilla de Pérez, a respected curandera (healer) in the San Diego area. Also covered are the “repatriation” campaigns” of the Midwest during the Depression that deported both adults and children, 75 percent of whom were U.S.–born and knew nothing of Mexico. Other stories include those of the garment, laundry, and cannery worker strikes, told from the perspective of Chicanas on the ground.\n\nFrom the women who fought and died in the Mexican Revolution to those marching with their young children today for immigrant rights, every story draws inspiration. Like the editor’s previous book, 500 Years of Chicano History (still in print after 30 years), this thoroughly enriching view of Chicana women’s history promises to become a classic.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0813542243\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0813542243.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Martínez, Dr. Elizabeth \"Betita\"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41445145575482,"sku":"DBV.0813542243.A","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0813542243-0.jpg?v=1780687095","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/500-years-of-chicana-womens-history-500-anos-de-la-mujer-chicana-bilingual-edition-english-and-spanish-edition","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}