Vicki L Ruiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 362226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicki L Ruiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicki L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruiz |
| SIGNATURE | RUIZ V L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 800 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Class Acts
The genealogy of Latina feminist traditions has typically focused on Mexican women, beginning with the seventeenth-century poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and then fast-forwarding to Chicana feminists of the 1960s and 1970s. Blanca Rosa Rodriguez Lopez, by contrast, advocated a more conventional path to women’s emancipation. Like other middle-class and elite Latin American feminists, she anchored her hopes on education as the key to securing equal…
Unequal Sisters: A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Women’s History
Venus in Two Acts: A Revolutionary Reader in U. S. Women's History
Em "Venus in Two Acts", Saidiya Hartman explora as dificuldades de recuperar as histórias de mulheres africanas escravizadas no Atlântico, cujas vidas e mortes foram amplamente não documentadas. Hartman examina os arquivos coloniais, reconhecendo sua parcialidade e violência inerentes, e questiona as possibilidades e os limites da representação histórica. Através da figura espectral de Vênus, uma mulher africana escravizada que morreu durante a t…
Class Acts: Latina Feminist Traditions, 1900–1930
A Chicano Toltec, Albert M. Camarillo: From Barrioization to Racial Borderhoods
Research Article| July 01 2015 A Chicano Toltec, Albert M. Camarillo: From Barrioization to Racial Borderhoods Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2015) 34 (4): 66–76. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.34.4.0066 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vicki L. Ruiz; A Chicano Toltec, Albert M. Camari…
Reflexiones
Perspective/Opinion| April 01 2010 Reflexiones Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz is dean of the School of Humanities and a professor of history and Chicano/ Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine. An award-winning historian, she has published seventeen books including Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1950 (1987) and From Out of the Shadows: Mexican…
From out of the shadows: Mexican women in twentieth-century America
Historian Vicki L. Ruiz provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century, in a narrative that is greatly enhanced by Ruiz's skillful use of interviews and personal stories, capturing a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States.
Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities
Social justice imperatives animate American Studies in the twenty-first century. Zoë Strauss's evocate image that graces the cover of the 2007 ASA conference program seems an appropriate metaphor for the everyday intersections of race, memory, community, and class. From the Minutemen who patrol the desert to the mulit-generational demonstrations for immigrant rights, constructions of historical memory loom large with discordant interpretations of…
Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women
Research Article| October 01 2006 Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women Donna R. Gabaccia; Donna R. Gabaccia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 3–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501778 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community
Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions
Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy
Morena/o, blanca/o y café con leche: Racial Constructions in Chicana/o Historiography
This essay reviews someof the scholarship of the last twenty years that illuminates significant twentieth-century experiences and the multiple identities of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. The racial/gendered contours of Chicana/o history are explored through research that focuses on the Chicano movement, labor and civil rights organizations, identity and community, education, segregation, and sexuality and power. Throughout the …
Una Mujer Sin Fronteras
Making strategic choices regarding her class and ethnic identiÞcation for the cause of social justice, Luisa Moreno was the most visible Latina labor and civil rights activist in the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. Vice-president of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA-CIO), this charismatic Guatemalan immigrant organized farm and cannery workers across the Southwest, achiev…
Shaping Public Space/Enunciating Gender: A Multiracial Historiography of the Women's West, 1995-2000
Shaping Public Space/Enunciating Gender:A Multiracial Historiography of the Women's West, 1995–2000 Vicki L. Ruiz (bio) Editor's Note Vicki Ruiz contributed the following bibliography and her comments to the Women's West Conference at Washington State University held in the summer of 2000. As her title suggests, all the books on the list deal with the interconnected issues of gender, race, and class in the U.S. West. The sheer volume of work that…
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
At Loose Ends: Twentieth-Century Latinos in Current United States History Textbooks
setting: a graduate seminar in United States history where two students are debating the Eisenhower years. One student, citing rising income and consumer spending, argues that the Eisenhower era was a period of peace and prosperity, full employment, and suburban growth. opposing student notes the continuation of racial and gender discrimination, ongoing poverty, and the perils of McCarthyism. At one point the professor mentions that in 1954 the I…
Situating Stories: The Surprising Consequences of Oral History
For almost two decades, I have incorporated oral history into my upper division undergraduate courses, assignments which for selected students become intellectual (and at times personal) journeys. They learn more than family stories, a neighbor's life, or a stranger's tale, but also come away with an understanding of reconstruct and interpret narratives, the sinew and muscle of historical discourse. In classes with such titles as Immigration and …
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the United States
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the United States Get access Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 10, Issue 2, Winter 1996, Pages 15–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/10.2.15 Published: 01 January 1996
It's the People Who Drive the Book: A View from the West
MULTICULTURALISM IS NOT A SET OF EUPHEMISMS SUPERIMPOSED ON the historical record. It reclaims and interprets lived experiences heretofore excluded from the American mosaic. For many historians, national history ends at the eastern banks of the Mississippi River, and race relations encompasses the dyad of black and white. Multicultural history expands the boundaries in terms of peoples and regions. Yet, it is not a question of mix-and-stir histor…
Textbooks in U.S. Women's History
Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement.
Dead Ends or Gold Mines: Using Missionary Records in Mexican-American Women's History
Peggy Pascoe and Valerie Matsumoto clearly delineated the theoretical issues we face as feminist historians.1 Expanding on their essays, I would like to discuss what is often ill perceived as the flip side of theory that is, methodology. How do we use institutional records (for example, missionary reports, pamphlets, and newsletters) to illuminate the experiences and attitudes of women of color? How do we sift through the bias, the self-congratul…
Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850-1900
Journal Article Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850–1900 Get access Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850–1900. By De Leon Arnoldo Stewart Kenneth L.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. xi + 119 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz University of California, Davis Search…
Las obreras
Research Article| November 01 1991 Las obreras: The Politics of Work and Family Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, The Claremont Graduate School Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1991) 20 (1-2): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1991.20.1-2.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Venus in Two Acts: A Revolutionary Reader in U. S. Women's History
Em "Venus in Two Acts", Saidiya Hartman explora as dificuldades de recuperar as histórias de mulheres africanas escravizadas no Atlântico, cujas vidas e mortes foram amplamente não documentadas. Hartman examina os arquivos coloniais, reconhecendo sua parcialidade e violência inerentes, e questiona as possibilidades e os limites da representação histórica. Através da figura espectral de Vênus, uma mulher africana escravizada que morreu durante a t…
From out of the shadows: Mexican women in twentieth-century America
Historian Vicki L. Ruiz provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century, in a narrative that is greatly enhanced by Ruiz's skillful use of interviews and personal stories, capturing a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States.
At Loose Ends: Twentieth-Century Latinos in Current United States History Textbooks
setting: a graduate seminar in United States history where two students are debating the Eisenhower years. One student, citing rising income and consumer spending, argues that the Eisenhower era was a period of peace and prosperity, full employment, and suburban growth. opposing student notes the continuation of racial and gender discrimination, ongoing poverty, and the perils of McCarthyism. At one point the professor mentions that in 1954 the I…
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History
Women's lives have been shaped by race, class, culture and gender. Yet, typically, in the field of women's history, the white, middle-class woman has stood for all women. Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz have brought together a group of essays that acknowledge and explore the diversity of womens' lives in the USA. The contributors explore the issues of waged work, family life, political activism, community building and sexual difference from a multicu…
Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities
Social justice imperatives animate American Studies in the twenty-first century. Zoë Strauss's evocate image that graces the cover of the 2007 ASA conference program seems an appropriate metaphor for the everyday intersections of race, memory, community, and class. From the Minutemen who patrol the desert to the mulit-generational demonstrations for immigrant rights, constructions of historical memory loom large with discordant interpretations of…
It's the People Who Drive the Book: A View from the West
MULTICULTURALISM IS NOT A SET OF EUPHEMISMS SUPERIMPOSED ON the historical record. It reclaims and interprets lived experiences heretofore excluded from the American mosaic. For many historians, national history ends at the eastern banks of the Mississippi River, and race relations encompasses the dyad of black and white. Multicultural history expands the boundaries in terms of peoples and regions. Yet, it is not a question of mix-and-stir histor…
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Journal Article Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1930. By Vicki L. Ruiz. (Albuquerque and Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. By Patricia Zavella. (Ithaca Get access Lynn Weiner Lynn Weiner Roosevelt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3,…
Una Mujer Sin Fronteras
Making strategic choices regarding her class and ethnic identiÞcation for the cause of social justice, Luisa Moreno was the most visible Latina labor and civil rights activist in the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. Vice-president of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA-CIO), this charismatic Guatemalan immigrant organized farm and cannery workers across the Southwest, achiev…
Class Acts: Latina Feminist Traditions, 1900–1930
Situating Stories: The Surprising Consequences of Oral History
For almost two decades, I have incorporated oral history into my upper division undergraduate courses, assignments which for selected students become intellectual (and at times personal) journeys. They learn more than family stories, a neighbor's life, or a stranger's tale, but also come away with an understanding of reconstruct and interpret narratives, the sinew and muscle of historical discourse. In classes with such titles as Immigration and …
Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Responses to Change
Texture, Text, and Context New Approaches in Chicano Historiography
Book Review| January 01 1986 Texture, Text, and Context New Approaches in Chicano Historiography La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the PresentRichard Griswold del CastilloThe Zoot-Suit Riots. The Psychology of Symbolic AnnihilationJohn R. ChávezChicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in CaliforniaAlbert Camarillo Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google…
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Women have been the mainstay of the gruelling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is a collective biography. Thousands of Mexicana and Mexican American women working in canneries in southern California established effective, democratic trade union locals run by local members. These rank-and-file activists skilfully managed union affairs, including negotiating such benefits as maternity leave, company-provided day care, and pa…
An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781-1985
Journal Article An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781–1985 Get access An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781–1985. By Tamante Antonio Ríos-Bus Castillo Pedro. (Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center/University of California, 1986. xi + 196 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography. $15.00, paper.) Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Responses to Change
Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change
Journal Article Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change. By Sherna Berger Gluck. (Boston: Twayne, 1987. xiii + 281 pp. $19.95.) Get access Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889772 Published: 01 June 1988
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Journal Article Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1930. By Vicki L. Ruiz. (Albuquerque and Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. By Patricia Zavella. (Ithaca Get access Lynn Weiner Lynn Weiner Roosevelt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3,…
Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley
Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives
In recent years the study of western history has been transformed by scholarship on the actual experiences of the women who settled the West. The essays gathered here, first presented in a 1984 conference sponsored by the South-west Institute for Research on Women, analyse and interpret this new body of research. Each essay is accompanied by several commentaries that reveal the complex multicultural character of the West through the experience of…
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History
Women's lives have been shaped by race, class, culture and gender. Yet, typically, in the field of women's history, the white, middle-class woman has stood for all women. Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz have brought together a group of essays that acknowledge and explore the diversity of womens' lives in the USA. The contributors explore the issues of waged work, family life, political activism, community building and sexual difference from a multicu…
Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, & Identity, 1930-1960
Journal Article Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, & Identity, 1930–1960. By Mario T. Garcia. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xii + 364 pp. $35.00.) Get access Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1078–1079, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079118 Published: 01 December 1990
Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives
Journal Article Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives Get access Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives. Edited by Schlissel Lillian Ruiz Vicki L. Monk Janice. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. vi + 354 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $27.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.) Sandra Schackel Sandra Schackel Boise State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…
Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement.
Dead Ends or Gold Mines: Using Missionary Records in Mexican-American Women's History
Peggy Pascoe and Valerie Matsumoto clearly delineated the theoretical issues we face as feminist historians.1 Expanding on their essays, I would like to discuss what is often ill perceived as the flip side of theory that is, methodology. How do we use institutional records (for example, missionary reports, pamphlets, and newsletters) to illuminate the experiences and attitudes of women of color? How do we sift through the bias, the self-congratul…
Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850-1900
Journal Article Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850–1900 Get access Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850–1900. By De Leon Arnoldo Stewart Kenneth L.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. xi + 119 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz University of California, Davis Search…
Las obreras
Research Article| November 01 1991 Las obreras: The Politics of Work and Family Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, The Claremont Graduate School Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1991) 20 (1-2): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1991.20.1-2.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Textbooks in U.S. Women's History
It's the People Who Drive the Book: A View from the West
MULTICULTURALISM IS NOT A SET OF EUPHEMISMS SUPERIMPOSED ON the historical record. It reclaims and interprets lived experiences heretofore excluded from the American mosaic. For many historians, national history ends at the eastern banks of the Mississippi River, and race relations encompasses the dyad of black and white. Multicultural history expands the boundaries in terms of peoples and regions. Yet, it is not a question of mix-and-stir histor…
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the United States
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the United States Get access Vicki L. Ruiz Vicki L. Ruiz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 10, Issue 2, Winter 1996, Pages 15–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/10.2.15 Published: 01 January 1996
Situating Stories: The Surprising Consequences of Oral History
For almost two decades, I have incorporated oral history into my upper division undergraduate courses, assignments which for selected students become intellectual (and at times personal) journeys. They learn more than family stories, a neighbor's life, or a stranger's tale, but also come away with an understanding of reconstruct and interpret narratives, the sinew and muscle of historical discourse. In classes with such titles as Immigration and …
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
At Loose Ends: Twentieth-Century Latinos in Current United States History Textbooks
setting: a graduate seminar in United States history where two students are debating the Eisenhower years. One student, citing rising income and consumer spending, argues that the Eisenhower era was a period of peace and prosperity, full employment, and suburban growth. opposing student notes the continuation of racial and gender discrimination, ongoing poverty, and the perils of McCarthyism. At one point the professor mentions that in 1954 the I…
Shaping Public Space/Enunciating Gender: A Multiracial Historiography of the Women's West, 1995-2000
Shaping Public Space/Enunciating Gender:A Multiracial Historiography of the Women's West, 1995–2000 Vicki L. Ruiz (bio) Editor's Note Vicki Ruiz contributed the following bibliography and her comments to the Women's West Conference at Washington State University held in the summer of 2000. As her title suggests, all the books on the list deal with the interconnected issues of gender, race, and class in the U.S. West. The sheer volume of work that…
Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy
Morena/o, blanca/o y café con leche: Racial Constructions in Chicana/o Historiography
This essay reviews someof the scholarship of the last twenty years that illuminates significant twentieth-century experiences and the multiple identities of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. The racial/gendered contours of Chicana/o history are explored through research that focuses on the Chicano movement, labor and civil rights organizations, identity and community, education, segregation, and sexuality and power. Throughout the …
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