Vicki L. Ruiz

About The Author

Vicki L. Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the award-winning author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America, and a co-editor of Unequal Sisters: a Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History.

Books by Vicki L. Ruiz

Western Women

Their Land, Their Lives

Edited by Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz and Janice Monk
These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.
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Cannery Women, Cannery Lives

Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950

By Vicki L. Ruiz
Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied ...
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