Latinas in the United States : a historical encyclopedia

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Vol. 1. Latinas in the Southwest

Latinas in the Northeast

Latinas in the Midwest

Latinas in the Southeast

Latinas in the Pacific Northwest

Abarca, Apolonia "Polly" Muñoz

Acosta, Lucy

Acosta Vice, Celia M

Aging

Agostini del Río, Amelia

Alatorre, Soledad "Chole"

Albelo, Carmen

Alfau Galván de Solalinde, Jesusa

Allende, Isabel

Alonzo, Ventura

Altars

Alvarez, Aida

Alvarez, Cecilia Concepción

Alvarez, Delia

Alvarez, Julia

Alvarez, Linda

Alvarez v. Lemon Grove School District

Americanization Programs

Antonetty, Evelina López

Antonio Maceo Brigade

Anzaldúa, Gloria

Apodaca, Felicitas

Aprenda y Superese

Aragón, Jesusita

Arballo, María Feliciana

Arguello, María de la Concepción (Sister María Dominica)

Arías, Anna María

Arizona Orphan Abduction

Armiño, Franca de

Arocho, Juanita

Arroyo, Carmen E

Arroyo, Martina

Artists

Asociación Nacional México-Americana (ANMA)

ASPIRA

ASPIRA v. New York City Board of Education

Avila, María Elena

Avila, Modesta

Aztlán

Babín, María Teresa

Baca, Judith Francesca

Baca Barragán, Polly

Baez, Joan Chandos

Barceló, María Gertrudis ("La Tules")

Barnard, Juana Josefina Cavasos

Barraza, Santa Contreras

Barrera, Plácida Peña

Belpré, Pura

Bencomo, Julieta Saucedo

Bernal, Martha

Bernasconi, Socorro Hernández

Betances Jaeger, Clotilde

Betanzos, Amalia V

Bilingual Education

Black Legend

Blake, María DeCastro

Borrero Pierra, Juana

Boyar, Monica

Bozak, Carmen Contreras

Bracero Program

Braga, Sonia

Briones, María Juana

Burciaga, Mirna Ramos

Caballero, Diana

Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola

Cabrera, Angelina "Angie"

Cabrera, Lydia

Calderón, Rose Marie

California Missions

California Sanitary Canning Company Strike

Callejo, Adelfa Botello

Callis de Fages, Eulalia Francesca y Josepha

Calvillo, Ana María del Carmen

Canales, Laura

Canales, Nohelia de los Angeles

Canino, María Josefa

Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU)

Cántico de la Mujer Latina

Capetillo, Luisa

Carbonell, Anna

Cardona, Alice

Carr, Vikki

Carrillo de Fitch, Josefa

Casal, Lourdes

Casals, Rosemary

Casanova de Villaverde, Emilia

Casita Maria, New York

Castillo, Ana

Castillo, Guadalupe

Castro, Rosie

Castro, Victoria M. "Vickie"

Ceja, Amelia Moran

Central American Immigrant Women

Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA)

Centro Hispano Católico

Centro Mater

Cepeda-Leonardo, Margarita

Cervantes, Lorna Dee

Chabram, Angie González

Chacón, Soledad Chávez

"Charo" (María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza)

Chávez, Denise

Chávez, Helen

Chávez, Linda

Chávez Ravine, Los Angeles

Chávez-Thompson, Linda

Chicana Caucus/National Women's Political Caucus

Chicana Rights Project

Chicano Movement

Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC)

Cigar Workers

Cinema Images, Contemporary

Círculo Cultural Isabel la Católica

Cisneros, Sandra

Clínica de la Beneficencia Mexicana

Collazo, Rosa Cortéz

Colón, Miriam

Colón, Rufa Concepción Fernández ("Concha")

Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN)

Communist Party

Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS)

Community Service Organization (CSO)

Congreso del Pueblo

Córdova, Lina

Corridos

Cossio y Cisneros, Evangelina

Cotera, Martha

Crawford, Mercedes Margarita Martínez

Cruz, Celia

Cuban and Puerto Rican Revolutionary Party

Cuban Independence Women's Clubs

Cuban Women's Club

Cuban-Spanish-American War

Cuero, Delfina

Davis, Grace Montañez

De Acosta, Aida

De Acosta, Mercedes

De Aragón, Uva

De Arteaga, Genoveva

De Avila, Dolores C

De Burgos, Julia

De la Cruz, Jessie López

De la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés

De la Garza, Beatríz

De León, Patricia de la Garza

Del Castillo, Adelaida Rebecca

Del Prado, Pura

Del Río, Dolores

Del Valle, Carmen

Delgado, Jane L

Demography

Deportations during the Great Depression

DiMartino, Rita

Dimas, Beatrice Escadero

Domestic Violence

Domestic Workers

Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR)

Dueto Carmen y Laura

Durazo, María Elena

Echaveste, María

Education

El Congreso de Pueblos de Hablan Española

El Monte Berry Strike

El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA)

El Paso Laundry Strike

El Rescate

Entrepreneurs

Environment and the Border

Escajeda, Josefina

Escalona, Beatríz ("La Chata Noloesca")

Escobar, Carmen Bernal

Espaillat, Rhina P

Espinosa-Mora, Deborah

Esquivel, Gregoria

Esquivel, Yolanda Almaraz

Estefan, Gloria

Esteves, Sandra María

Family

Farah Strike

Farmworkers

Feminism

Fernández, Beatrice "Gigi"

Fernández, Mary Joe

Fernández, Rosita

Ferré Aguayo, Sor Isolina

Fierro, Josefina

Figueroa, Belén

Figueroa Mercado, Loida

Flores, Diana

Flores, Francisca

Florez, Encarnación Villarreal Escobedo

Folk Healing Traditions

Fontañez, Jovita

Fornés, María Irene

Friendly House, Phoenix

Fuerza Unida

Gallegos, Carmen Cornejo

Ganados del Valle

Gangs

García, Cristina

García, Eva Carrillo de

García, Providencia "Provi"

García Cortese, Aimee

García-Aguilera, Carolina

Garcíaz, María

Garment Industry

Giant

Gómez Carbonell, María

Gómez-Potter, Socorro

Gonzáles, Elvira Rodríguez de

González, Laura

González, Matiana

González Mireles, Jovita

Govea, Jessica

Grau, María Leopoldina "Pola"

Great Depression and Mexican American Women

Guerra, Fermina

Guerrero, Rosa

Guerrero, Victoria Partida

Guillen Herrera, Rosalinda

Gutiérrez, Luz Bazán

Guzmán, Madre María Dominga. Vol. 2. Hamlin, Rosalie Méndez

Hayworth, Rita

Head Start

Health: Current Issues and Trends

Henríquez Ureña, Camila

Hernández, Antonia

Hernández, Ester

Hernández, María Latigo

Hernández, Olivia

Hernández, Victoria

Herrada, Elena

Herrera, Carolina

Herrera, María Cristina

Hijas de Cuauhtémoc

Hinojosa, Tish

Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program (HMDP)

Houchen Settlement, El Paso

Huerta, Cecilia Olivarez

Huerta, Dolores

Hull-House, Chicago

Idar Juárez, Jovita

Immigration of Latinas to the United States

Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)

Intermarriage, Contemporary

Intermarriage, Historical

International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)

Jaramillo, Cleofas Martínez

Jiménez, María de los Angeles

Journalism and Print Media

Jurado, Katy

Kimbell, Sylvia Rodríguez

Kissinger, Beatrice Amado

La Llorona

"La Lupe" (Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond)

La Malinche (Malinalli Tenepal)

La Mujer Obrera

La Raza Unida Party

Labor Unions

Lares, Michelle Yvette "Shelly"

Las Hermanas

Latina U.S. Treasurers

Latinas in the U.S. Congress

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Lebrón, Dolores "Lolita"

Ledesma, Josephine

Lee Tapia, Consuelo

Legal Issues

León, Ruth Esther Soto ("La Hermana León")

León, Tania

Lesbians

"Letter from Chapultepec"

Liberation Theology

Líderes Campesinas

Literature

Lobo, Rebecca Rose

Lomas Garza, Carmen

Lone Star

López, Lillian

López, María I

López, Nancy Marie

López, Rosie

López, Yolanda

López Córdova, Gloria

Lorenzana, Apolinaria

Los Angeles Garment Workers' Strike

Lozano, Alicia Guadalupe Elizondo

Lozano, Emma

Lozano, Mónica Cecilia

Lucas, María Elena

Machuca, Ester

Madrid, Patricia A

Madrigal v. Quilligan

Maldonado, Amelia Margarita

Maquiladoras

Mariachi

Mariachi Estrella de Topeka

Marianismo and Machismo

Marshall, Guadalupe

Martí de Cid, Dolores

Martínez, Agueda Salazar

Martínez, Anita N

Martínez, Demetria

Martínez, Elizabeth Sutherland "Betita"

Martínez, Frances Aldama

Martínez, Vilma S

Martínez Santaella, Inocencia

McBride, Teresa N

Mederos y Cabañas de González, Elena Inés

Media Stereotypes

Medicine

Medina, Esther

Meléndez, Concha

Meléndez, Sara

Méndez, Consuelo Herrera

Méndez, Olga A

Méndez v. Westminster

Mendieta, Ana

Mendoza, Lydia

Mendoza, María Estella Altamirano

Mendoza v. Tucson School District No

Mercado, Victoria "Vicky"

Mesa-Bains, Amalia

Mestizaje

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Mexican American Women's National Association (MANA)

Mexican Mothers' Club, University of Chicago Settlement House

Mexican Revolution

Mexican Revolution, Border Women in

Mexican Schools

Migration and Labor

Military Service

Miller, Esther

Mining Communities

Miranda, Carmen

Mistral, Gabriela (Lucila Godoy Alcayaga)

Mohr, Nicholasa

Mojica-Hammer, Ruth

Molina, Gloria

Montemayor, Alice Dickerson

Montes-Donnelly, Elba Iris

Montez, María (María Africa Gracia Vidal)

Mora, Magdalena

Mora, Patricia "Pat"

Moraga, Cherríe

Moraga, Gloria Flores

Morales, Iris

Morales-Horowitz, Nilda M

Moreno, Luisa

Moreno, Rita (Rosa Dolores Alverio)

Morillo, Irma

Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA)

Movie Stars

Mugarrieta, Elvira Virginia (Babe Bean; Jack Bee Garland)

Mujeres in Action, Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Mujeres Latinas en Acción (MLEA)

Mujeres por la Raza

Mujerista Theology

Munguía, Carolina Malpica de

Muñoz, María del Carmen

National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)

National Association of Puerto Rican/Hispanic Social Workers (NAPRHSW)

National Chicana Conference

National Conference of Puerto Rican Women (NACOPRW)

National Council of La Raza (NCLR)

National Hispanic Feminist Conference

National Puerto Rican Forum

Naturalization

Navarro, M. Susana

Nerio, Trinidad

New Economics for Women (NEW)

New York City Mission Society (NYCMS)

Nieto, Sonia

Nieto Gómez, Anna

Norte, Marisela

Novello, Antonia Coello

Nuestra Señora de la Divina Providencia

Núñez, Ana Rosa

Nuns, Colonial

Nuns, Contemporary

Obejas, Achy

Ochoa, Ellen

O'Donnell, Sylvia Colorado

Olivares, Olga Ballesteros

Olivarez, Graciela

Olivera, Mercedes

Ontiveros, Manuela

Operation Pedro Pan

Orozco, Aurora Estrada

Ortega, Carlota Ayala

Ortiz Cofer, Judith

Ortiz y Pino de Kleven, María Concepción "Concha"

O'Shea, María Elena

Otero-Smart, Ingrid

Otero-Warren, Adelina

Pachucas

Palacio-Grottola, Sonia

Pantoja, Antonia

Parsons, Lucia González

Patiño Río, Dolores

Pauwels Pfeiffer, Linda Lorena

Payán, Ilka Tanya

Pedroso, Paulina

Peña de Bordas, (Ana) Virginia de

Peñaranda, Ana Marcial

Pentecostal Church

Perales, Nina

Pérez, Eulalia

Pérez, Graciela

Pérez v. Sharp

Phelps Dodge Strike

Phillips, Carmen Romero

Pilsen Neighbors Community Council

Pinedo, Encarnación

Politics, Electoral

Politics, Party

Popular Religiosity

Prida, Dolores

Propositions

Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs (PRACA)

Puerto Rican Radical Politics in New York

Puerto Rican Women Political Prisoners

Puerto Ricans in Hawaii. Vol. 3. Quesada, Alicia Otilia

Quesada, Dora Ocampo

Quinceañera

Quintanilla Pérez, Selena

Quintero, Luisa

Race and Color Consciousness

Ramírez, Emilia Schunior

Ramírez, Sara Estela

Ramírez, Tina

Ramírez de Arellano, Diana

Rangel, Irma

Rape

Reid, Marita

Reid, Victoria Comicrabit

Religion

Reyes, Guadalupe

Rico, Angelina Moreno

Rincón de Gautier, Felisa

Rivera, Aurelia "Yeya"

Rivera, Chita

Rivera, Graciela

Rivera, Roxana

Rivera Martínez, Domitila

Robles Díaz, Inés

Rodríguez, Hermelinda Morales

Rodríguez, "Isabel" Hernández

Rodríguez, Josefa "Chepita"

Rodríguez, Patricia

Rodríguez, Sofía

Rodríguez Cabral, María Cristina

Rodríguez de Tió, Lola

Rodríguez McLean, Verneda

Rodríguez Remeneski, Shirley

Rodríguez-Trias, Helen

Romero Cash, Marie

Rosado Rousseau, Leoncia ("Mamá Léo")

Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana

Roybal-Allard, Lucille

Ruiz, Bernarda

Ruiz, Irene Hernández

Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo

Sada, María G. "Chata"

Salsa

Salt of the Earth

San Antonio, Ana Gloria

San Antonio Pecan Shellers' Strike

San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike

San Juan, Olga

Sánchez, Loretta

Sánchez, María Clemencia

Sánchez, María E

Sánchez Cruz, Rebecca

Sánchez Garfunkel, Aura Luz

Santería

Santiago, Petra

Saralegui, Cristina

Saucedo, María del Jesús

Schechter, Esperanza Acosta Mendoza "Hope"

Scientists

Sena, Elvira

Sepúlveda, Emma

Sexuality

Silva, Chelo

Silva de Cintrón, Josefina "Pepiña"

"Sister Carmelita" (Carmela Zapata Bonilla Marrero)

Slavery

Sloss-Vento, Adela

Smeltertown, El Paso

Smith, Plácida Elvira García

Soldaderas

Solis, Hilda L

Sosa-Riddell, Adaljiza

Soto Feliciano, Carmen Lillian "Lily"

Souchet, Clementina

Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP)

Spanish Borderlands

Colonial Law

Comadrazgo

Early Settlement Life in the Borderlands

Encomienda

Women in California

Women in New Mexico

Women in St. Augustine

Women in Texas

Women's Wills

Spiritism

Spiritism in New York City

Sterilization

Street Vending

Student Movements

Substitute Auxiliary Teachers (SATs)

Swilling, Trinidad Escalante

Tabaqueros' Unions

Talamante, Olga

Tarango, Yolanda

Telenovelas

Television

Tempe Normal School

Ten Years' War

Tenayuca, Emma

Tex-Son Strike

Theater

Padua Hills Theater

Playwrights

Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT)

Teatro Campesino

Villalongín Dramatic Company

Toraño-Pantín, María Elena

Torres, Alva

Torres, Ida Inés

Torres, Lourdes

Torres, Patsy (Patricia Donita)

Tovar, Lupita

Toypurina

Trambley, Estela Portillo

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Treaty of Paris

Treviño-Sauceda, Mily

Tufiño, Nitza

Ulibarrí Sánchez, Louise

United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA/FTA)

United Farm Workers of America (UFW)

Women in the United Farm Workers (UFW)

U.S.-Mexican War

Urquides, María Luisa Legarra

Urrea, Teresa

Valdez, Patssi

Vallejo, Epifania de Guadalupe

Vallejo de Leese, María Paula Rosalía

Vanguardia Puertorriqueña

Varela, Beatriz

Varela, María

Vásquez, Anna

Vásquez, Enriqueta Longeaux y

Velázquez, Loreta Janeta

Velázquez, Nydia M

Vélez, Lupe

Vélez de Vando, Emelí

Vélez-Mitchell, Anita

Vicioso Sánchez, Sherezada "Chiqui"

Vidal, Irma

Vidaurri, Rita

Villarreal, Andrea and Teresa

Viramontes, Helena María

Virgen de Guadalupe

Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre

Voting Rights Act

Watsonville Strike

Welch, Raquel

West Side Story

Wilcox, Mary Rose Garrido

Wolf, Esther Valladolid

World War II

Ybarra, Eva

Young Lords

Zamora, Bernice B. Ortiz

Zárate, Rosa Marta

Zúñiga, Alejandra Rojas

List of Biographical Entries

List of Organizations

Selected Readings in Latina History. Vol. 1: Introduction, Abarca

Guzman

Vol. 2: Hamlin

Puerto Ricans in Hawaii

Vol. 3: Quesada

Zuniga, Index