{"product_id":"500-years-of-chicana-womens-history-500-aos-de-la-mujer-chicana-bilingual-edition-english-and-spanish-edition-9780813542249","title":"500 Years of Chicana Women's History \/ 500 Aos de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition (English and Spanish Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed 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 Womens 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 Doa Tules  who owned a popular gambling saloon in Santa Fe  and Eulalia Arrilla de Prez  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 editors previous book  500 Years of Chicano History (still in print after 30 years)  this thoroughly enriching view of Chicana womens history promises to become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651467665461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813542243","price":34.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813542249.jpg?v=1781834937","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/500-years-of-chicana-womens-history-500-aos-de-la-mujer-chicana-bilingual-edition-english-and-spanish-edition-9780813542249","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}