Books written by Virginia Sánchez Korrol
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Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community
his personal memoir recounting his sixty years in California, William Heath Davis described his 1844 visit to the Reids. Before he recountes his visit, he noted that the Californios “seldom intermarried with the Indians; but they mixed ...
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Latinas in the United States, set: A Historical Encyclopedia
"Meant for scholars and general readers, this is a great resource on Latinas and historical topics connected with them." -- curledup.com
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Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community
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 ...
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Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community
paternalistic authority over his wife and children, Loreta Janeta was nonetheless fluent in both Spanish and English. ... Jubal A. Early, a former Confederate general, accused Velázquez of inventing her tale and deemed it an "affront to ...
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Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History
This study examines the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin America. Marysa Nararro looks at early indigenous societies, and at the Spanish...
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Feminist and Abolitionist: The Story of Emilia Casanova
A fictionalized memoir of Emilia Casanova, a Cuban woman who fought for independence from Spain and for freedom for the African slaves on her island home.
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Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History
" Sánchez Korrol considers the shifts in women's roles between the 1880s and 1930s and accompanying societal transformations.
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage
Presents essays dealing with literature written by Hispanic Americans from the sixteenth century through 1960, evaluates individual authors, and examines the contributions of Latino authors in a multicultural, multilingual society.
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Puerto Rican Studies in the City University of New York: The First 50 Years
"Authored by leading scholars in the field of Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies, this volume is an important milestone in documenting the power of collective consciousness and action to create change in and access to higher education for all ...
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Teaching U.S. Puerto Rican History
Teaching U.S. Puerto Rican History
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Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia
Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The...