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. Since the earliest
periods of Spanish American colonization, women have claimed public
space and built communities, both as physical places and as
cultural realms. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics,
educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers,
many Latinas used the power of the pen
to traverse and transgress the social boundaries and cultural
conventions of their time. Their diverse histories span two
centuries and encompass a past of multiple conquests and
migrations, taking into account race, region, gender, culture, and
social location. Blending insights from history,
literary criticism, and cultural studies, this interdisciplinary
anthology re-envisions Latina history taking into consideration
gendered genealogies of power as charted through grassroots'
activism, literature, education, and economic enterprise. Their
legacies rest on the production and
dissemination of knowledge, which in turn reveals much about their
own worldviews and historical agency. 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.
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