A
Historical Encyclopedia
Edited
by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol
Indiana
University Press, 2006
Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicana/o Studies of the Department of History at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 20th Century America and Cannery Women, Cannery Lives; and the co-editor of Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women's History; Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives; Women on the US-Mexico Border; and Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community. Ruiz was an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of the American West.
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol is Professor of History in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She is the author of From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City; and the co-editor of Jesus Colon: The Way It Was and Other Writings and Historical Perspectives on the Puerto Rican urvival in the United States; and Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community. Sanchez-Korrol was an associate editor of The New York City Encyclopedia.
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Ulibarrí Sánchez standing in the door on the left and
her first class at Anton Chico
New Mexico, 1907. Courtesy of Evelia Cobos Yusu
If you are interested in more information on the project contact: Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College (718) 951-5561, e-mail: vsankorr@brooklyn.cuny.edu or Vicki L. Ruiz, Department of History, University of California, Irvine (949) 824-9313, e-mail: vruiz@uci.edu
Photograph: "Comadres," Teresa Grijalva de Orozco and Francisca Ocampo Quesada, 1921. Chicano Research Collection, Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.v