Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction
The 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.
"500 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.
In the section on jobs held by Mexicanas under U.S. rule in the
1800s, for example, readers learn about flamboyant Dona Tules, who
owned a popular gambling saloon in Santa Fe, and Eulalia Arrilla de
Perez, 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.
From 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.
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